Economy

AJ+ interviews Naomi Klein “As people gather in New York City for what organizers are billing as the largest climate-change protest in history, AJ+ asks Naomi Klein about her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate. She tells us why the planet is doomed if we don’t change course. And why it’s up […]

Economy

Dubai to Build the World’s Largest Airport

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TheLipTV “Dubai is planning to build the world’s largest airport as part of a $32B expansion. The project is expected to be long and expensive, which brings into question how it will effect the city’s already hurting economy. We take a look at Dubai’s reason for building the 54 square mile airport, in this Lip […]

Climate Change

Will Independence Harm Scotland’s Green Advantage?

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(Bloomberg) –- Renewable energy is found in abundance in Scotland; nearly half of the country’s electricity comes from green sources. But will an independent Scotland struggle to land orders as it faces changes to regulation? We look at one of the world’s leading test sites for marine energy. Bloomberg News: “Will Independence Harm Scotland’s Green […]

Crime

Employers’ theft from Worker Wages 3 times more than all other Theft in US

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The Young Turks “As the economy slowly recovers, it’s become increasingly clear that it’s not just unemployed Americans who need help from the government. It’s those that are employed as well. “That’s the main finding of a new report from the Economic Policy Institute on wage theft. What is wage theft? It’s when employers refuse […]

Economy

Climate Change: Neoliberal Capitalism is Fundamentally at War with Life on Earth (Naomi Klein)

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The National: “Naomi Klein discusses her new book This Changes Everything, in which she says it’s time to stop counting on the politicians to save the planet.” The National: “Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything author talks about climate change”

Climate Change

The Plutocracy Strikes Back: The Pathologies of Rule by a Handful of Billionaires

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By Steve Fraser via Tomdispatch.com George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and protracted strike that shut down much of the country’s anthracite coal industry, Baer defied President Teddy Roosevelt’s appeal to arbitrate the issues at stake, saying, “The rights and interests of […]

Economy

Do Latinos in US have to Change their Names to Get a Job?

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The Young Turks “”Zamora’s story was the same as those of so many Americans nowadays who are struggling to find a job. Zamora stated that he probably sent out between 50 and 100 résumés a day and received little to no reply. So he decided to take matters into his own hands: He changed his […]

Banking

Elizabeth Warren: Taking on Entrenched Wall Street Interests that have Rigged the Game (Moyers)

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Bill Moyers: “The Massachusetts senator talks to Bill about taking on the entrenched political and Wall Street interests that have rigged the game against the rest of us.”

Apartheid

Did Anyone win the Gaza Conflict? Was it even a “War”?

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By Ramzy Baroud (Maan) In the rush to analyze the outcome of Israel’s 51-day war in Gaza, dubbed Operation Protective Edge, some may have neglected an important factor: this was not a war by traditional definitions of warfare, thus the conventional analyses of victory and defeat is simply not applicable. That being the case, how […]