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New FBI report slams corporate crooks and ‘cookie jar’ accountants
July 30, 2012If anyone doubts there is extensive rot in the so-called U.S. capitalist system, we have an invitation for them: Read the FBI's latest report on corporate criminality.
Read moreBehind London Olympics spectacular sports, a dark side
July 24, 2012While the 2012 Summer Olympics bring athletes together in spectacles of sport, the Games will also bring crippling debt, especially galling given the latest austerity measures in the UK.
Read moreMurdered because they wanted to protect the environment!
June 28, 2012Environmental activists world wide - including community leaders and journalists - were being killed at a rate of one per week during 2011 alone.
Read moreNuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics
June 26, 2012The Games have become a hopeful, yet often futile, source of economic revitalization and jobs for the host city or country, which instead often winds up in debt. Greece is case in point.
Read moreRio environmental summit disappoints — again
June 26, 2012The weak-at-best conference statement merely reaffirmed the goals from 20 years ago for a sustainable world, without making any binding agreements which could make that actually happen.
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