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Japan might be overtaken by China in 2010 as the second biggest economy based on GDP, but in all the areas that matter, China continues to be a third world country, producing the world’s dollar store bargains

All of the tongue-clucking of the economists will never convince voters that granting more power to business will improve their lives. They know from bitter experience that what employers want is more work for less pay, and they will use the means at their disposal to reverse the trend

The key to selling us the financial and political system is creating illusions that keep us from seeing what is in front of our noses. We should stop using the semantics of the powerful and reclaim words that have been emptied of their meaning

Matt Kennard talks to the most eminent sociologist in the world, Zygmunt Bauman.

Barack Obama is more socialist than FDR, and he is intent on spending money on people who haven’t worked for it.

With a changed global economic system and cultural superstructure, American politicians need to catch up quick, for their own sake and ours.