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Should We Democratize the Economy?

There is no real public discussion either in the media or by presidential candidates to make the changes necessary to democratize the economy. We have seen a general move to an increasingly regressive tax system in the past 30 or 40 years in the US and Europe. Public boards should make corporations and banks more accountable. Watch the interview with Leo Panitch.


Ecuador's Yasuni Park: Oil Exploration or Nature Protection?

Manuela Omari Ima, a Waorani woman from the Ecuadorian Amazon, was born in the Yasuni National Park, a 2.5 million acre primary tropical rainforest at the intersection of the Andes, the Amazon and the Equator.

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The economy and working people



As Big Banks Fall: The Bear Has Fallen and the Bull is Gone

New York: If you walk through London’s High Gate cemetery and wander over to the grave of the late Karl Marx and then listen closely with your ear to the ground, you might hear a repetitive murmur of the phrase “I told you so” in a distinctly German inflected accent.

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Eliot’s Mess

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked

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Mexicans Say: Integrate This!

As part of a broadened alliance of civil society groups demanding the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexicans from all parts of the country occupied Mexico City's Zocalo and surroundings on January 31.

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From NAFTA to the SPP

Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but—what security? whose prosperity?

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Hugo Chavez vs Exxon



CANADA: High Housing Prices Swell Ranks of Homeless

VANCOUVER, Feb 12 (IPS) - Canada is continuing to see increases in homelessness and precarious housing situations across the country as rents increase and incomes stay level, but intergovernmental bickering over housing policy is overshadowing the need to take leadership on the issue, according to critics.

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A stimulus proposal to fight recession