Richard Hanzel, Brendan Hutt, Richard Shavzin
Profit Over People

Wall Street Admits Curing Diseases is Bad for Business

Goldman Sachs has outdone itself this time. According to Goldman Sachs, curing people of terrible diseases is not good for Wall Street.

by Lee Camp

“Sellouts in the Room:” Éric Toussaint on the Greek Debt Crisis and SYRIZA Betrayals

SYRIZA gained popular support and came in with a program that was really radical. They said we will socialize or nationalize the Greek banks and put in practice a very radical fiscal policy and increase the taxes on the rich, the Orthodox Church, and the oligarchs. They wound up doing just the opposite.

“Sellouts in the Room:” Éric Toussaint on the Greek Debt Crisis and SYRIZA Betrayals

ATHENS, GREECE – For years, throughout the severe economic crisis that has plagued Greece over much of the past decade, the international media and financial press have held Greece up as a striking example of financial folly and mismanagement. Greece’s debt, we have been told, is the product of fiscal irresponsibility, of “lazy” and “unproductive”

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Dr. Michael Nevradakis

Dr. Michael Nevradakis

Dr. Michael Nevradakis is an independent journalist presently based in Athens, Greece. Michael is the host of Dialogos Radio, a weekly radio program featuring interviews and coverage of current events in Greece, and is a member of the communication faculty at Deree - The American College of Greece. He was previously a Fulbright scholar and completed his Ph.D. in Media Studies from The University of Texas in 2018.

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End of the (Petro)Dollar: What the Federal Reserve Doesn’t Want You to Know

“If dollar inflation emerges, China’s Treasury holdings will devalue, but the dollar price of its gold will soar. A large gold reserve is a prudent diversification.  Russia’s motives are geopolitical. Gold is the model 21st century weapon for financial wars.The US controls dollar payments systems and, with help from European allies, can eject adversaries from the international payments system called Swift. “

End of the (Petro)Dollar: What the Federal Reserve Doesn’t Want You to Know

  (ANTIMEDIA) — OPINION -- The United States’ ability to maintain its influence over the rest of the world has been slowly diminishing.

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Fact-checking Trump And Clinton On The Billionaire’s Tax Break

When the presidential candidates vowed on Sunday to eliminate the “carried-interest” loophole, they left out some important context.

Fact-checking Trump And Clinton On The Billionaire’s Tax Break

The only thing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump seemed to agree upon in last Sunday’s debate — indeed, one of the few substantive policy exchanges they had — was the need to eliminate a tax benefit that collectively saves private equity, real estate, and venture capital partners billions of dollars each year. But their exchange might have left

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Mapping The Cost Of “Sin” Across America

As states continue to grapple with ever-tightening budgets, it is nearly certain that state legislatures will continue to raise sin taxes.

Mapping The Cost Of “Sin” Across America

As spring heads into summer across the United States, many Americans may be enjoying a frosty adult beverage. And associated with the purchase of that alcohol, Americans will pay a hefty tax. The taxes

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Unaoil Scandal: Leaks Reveal How Multi-nationals From Rolls-Royce to Halliburton Bribe World’s Governments

A massive leak of confidential documents has for the first time exposed the true extent of corruption within the oil industry, implicating dozens of leading companies, bureaucrats and politicians in a sophisticated global web of bribery and graft.

Unaoil Scandal: Leaks Reveal How Multi-nationals From Rolls-Royce to Halliburton Bribe World’s Governments

  Stuff - - In the list of the world's great companies, Unaoil is nowhere to be seen. But for the best part of the past two decades, the family business from Monaco

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Walmart Has $76 Billion Stashed In “Magical” Tax Havens

A “groundbreaking” report—”The Wal-Mart Web: How the World’s Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes”— reveals an extensive, covert “network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens, which may be used to minimize foreign taxes where it has retail operations and to avoid U.S. tax on those foreign earnings.”

(ANTIMEDIA) Walmart’s profit-at-any-cost philosophy—including a virtual assault on the rights of its hourly workers and its continuing reliance overseas suppliers with a collective

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Claire Bernish

Claire Bernish

Claire Bernish ​is an activist and journalist who focuses on government and corporate corruption, freedom of speech, censorship, law enforcement accountability, and human rights. Her work can be seen on TheFreeThoughtProject.com, theAntiMedia.org, and multiple other outlets. Follow Claire on Twitter @Subversive_Pen or connect on Facebook Claire S Bernish or through her page here.

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