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Greece's creditors demand casino rights, archaeological sites, selloff of...
Already sold: most of Greece's airports -- for sale: gas transmission, oil refineries, power company, post office, national highways, water company. (more…)
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David Cameron capitulates to terror, proposes Britain's USA Patriot Act
The UK Prime Minister has seized on the tragic deaths and injuries in Paris as an excuse to terroise Britons into allowing him to pass his Snoopers Charter, a sweeping, badly written surveillance bill...
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Brexit's other shoe drops: austerity, deregulation, climate nihilism
As Conservative grandees jostle each other in the looming contest to become Prime Minister of the UK, we're starting to learn more about their plans for governing UK without the constraint of the...
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Turkey: 6,000 arrested following coup, but that doesn't make it an inside job
The failed military coup in Turkey was bizarre, even (especially) by the standards of Turkish military coups (which is a surprisingly large data-set), and in the wake of the coup, 6,000 people were...
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Puerto Rico's streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no...
Though Puerto Rican law prohibits ownership and bearing of most long-guns and especially semiautomatic weapons, the streets of the stricken US colony now throng with mercenaries in tactical gear...
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Trump Cabinet Secretary's hometown, 2-person company wins $300m...
When mainland US cities like Houston and Miami get hit by hurricanes, they rely on mutual aid deals with out-of-state and Canadian power authorities to rebuild, as hundreds of skilled maintenance...
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Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing...
Naomi Klein's l(ooooo)ongread in The Intercept about the state of play in Puerto Rico is the comprehensive summary of the post-Maria fuckery and hope that has gripped America's colonial laboratory,...
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Puerto Rico to dismantle its statistics agency in the midst of radical shock...
The Puerto Rican senate has approved Governor Ricardo Rosselló's plan to dismantle the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics (PRIS), handing its functions private contractors paid by the Department of...
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If this goes on... The 1% will own two thirds of the world by 2030
The House of Commons Library has published research projecting the post-2008 growth of inequality until 2030, arriving at an eye-popping headline figure: at current rates, the richest 1% will own two...
View ArticlePuerto Rico didn't suffer a "natural disaster": it was looted and starved...
Hurricanes Irma and Maria left Puerto Rico in tatters, but it would be a mistake to blame the weather for Puerto Rico's suffering; Puerto Rico was put in harm's way by corrupt governments doing the...
View Article#Rickyrenuncia: Bowing to popular pressure, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo...
After weeks of mass demonstrations touched off by the publication of a trove of leaked chats and evidence of mass corruption by Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism, Ricardo Rossello has...
View ArticleEcofascism isn't new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in...
It's easy to think of climate denial as a right-wing phenomenon, but a growing and ultra-violent strain of white-nationalism also embraces climate science, in the worst way possible. Several of the...
View ArticleAfter Katrina, neoliberals replaced New Orleans' schools with charters, which...
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was shock doctrined through a massive, neoliberal transformation, the centerpiece of which was a replacement of the public school system with a system entirely...
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