March 17, 2012 MEDIA ROOTS — “And the diary of this story is to try to reclaim the vernacular narrative and try to change this phenomenon right now. This is our time while we’re here in this time-space continuum. And we have an obligation to our children and people before that are not here yet to rectify these situations. And … Read More
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Economist Dr. Alain Parquez at Italian MMT Summit 2012
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MEDIA ROOTS — Recently, Max Keiser discussed, on RT, the MF Global pillaging scandal, the USA’s eighth largest bankruptcy, and how the Occupy Movement has remained largely silent on the potential rallying-call issue due to a lack of financial literacy. Fortunately, Max Keiser, Dr. Michael Hudson, Dr. Richard Wolff, and others have been speaking at Occupy Movement convergences. Perhaps, in … Read More
Super Imperialism: Economic Strategy of US Empire
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March 15, 2012 MEDIA ROOTS — With the reverberating excitement around the recent Italian Modern Monetary Theory Summit 2012, which is shattering orthodox and right-wing economic dogma in the Eurozone with common sense and offering the post-Shock Doctrine Occupy Movement intellectual tools to strengthen its activism, Media Roots takes a look at the work of one of the grassroots Summit’s … Read More
MR Transcript: Italian MMT Summit 2012
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MEDIA ROOTS — Dr. Michael Hudson calls it “a financial grab of infrastructure” by banking and financial elites; some call it the new world order; others use less provocative descriptors. This class warfare being waged by the world’s ruling-class against the U.S. working-class has been described as a “financial coup d’état” by Catherine Austin Fitts and others. But make no … Read More
Dr. Michael Hudson: Democracy and Debt
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MEDIA ROOTS — Some view democracy as something we’re losing with the two-party dictatorship shredding the U.S. Constitution under a post-9/11 pretext of national security, as transnational corporations assert their will over sovereign states. Others assert democracy is a good idea yet to be realised, given the Electoral College has always been a ruling-class fail-safe against true democracy. Post-OWS, we … Read More