The Greek Crisis Marks ‘the Beginning of the Collapse of Capitalism’

Missing from the mainstream debate over the Greek economic crisis is “the damaging role that the endless quest for economic growth plays,” writes journalist Jennifer Hinton at The Guardian. “Neither austerity nor government stimulus will ever be able to address the debt crises and recessions of the twenty-first century because what we’re dealing with here is an inherent contradiction of capitalism.”

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How Endless War Helps Old Dixie Stay New

They finally shot the nigger!” the sparrow-slight soldier whooped. Nicknamed “Georgia” for the obvious reason, that’s what he apparently ran around shouting once word of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination wound its way out into the electric-green paddy fields of South Vietnam. I was told the story more than once by a member of his unit and often imagined what it must have been like, especially for his black brothers-in-arms, to be smacked with that news and that epithet all at once.

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Deliberate Trade Policies for Africa's Industralisation

African countries can use deliberate trade policies to achieve growth through industrial development and structural transformation. Sanusi Lamido, a former governor of the central bank of Nigeria, once railed against his country for spending "huge resources importing consumer goods from China that should be produced locally."
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The CIA’s Creation of “Islamic Terrorism” on American Soil

Islamic paramilitary camps have been set up in the United States and Canada to train African American Muslims in guerilla warfare. After months of training on firing ranges and obstacle courses, the black Muslims are sent to Pakistan where they receive advanced training in explosives. Many never return.

Stories about these camps are not new. They have been reported by the main stream media, including Fox News.

The origin of these compounds for would-be jihadis dates back to 1979, when the Agency sent hundreds of radical Islamic clerics to the United States in an effort to recruit African American Muslims for the holy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

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A Nation Built on the Back of Slavery and Racism

Why Reparations? It began with 246 years of legal slavery in which we extracted wealth from the lives of African Americans. At the time of the Civil War, close to 4 million African americans were enslaved, 13 percent of american total population. After the war, institutional injustices focused on sealing their land and jobs and ensuring the African Americans did not build wealth as fast as the rest of Americans.

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