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Tag: Wall Street

Bernie, Hillary, and body language

July 15, 2016 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

Yesterday, Bernie endorsed Hillary. Body language experts across the Web came to the same conclusion: They don’t like each other. They saw Hillary as

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Hillary Clinton, meet Richard Nixon, and learn from him

February 26, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Campaigns, Community/Common good, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The Town Hall meetings with the candidates in 2015-16 have been outstanding. They provide a real opportunity to hear from the candidates when they

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What Hillary Clinton might say to help herself

February 6, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Banks, Business, Campaigns, Economy, Financial reform, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Hillary Clinton finds herself on the defensive, doing rope-a-dope, against certain charges from both the media and Bernie Sanders. Where Sanders is concerned, Clinton’s

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Noam Chomsky: On capitalism and why electing Bernie isn’t enough

October 25, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Activism, Banks, Climate Change, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Environment, Hillary Clinton, Obama Leave a comment

    In a recent interview in Jacobin, linguist, philosopher, and political activist Noam Chomsky gave an interesting answer to a question about the American capitalist system. He basically said

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Elizabeth Warren: Change will happen when enough people say “I’m mad as hell”

June 17, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Corruption, Democrats One comment

At a recent conference of media and tech influencers, a member of the audience asked Elizabeth Warren a simple question. Her spontaneous and passionate

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Joe Stiglitz wants to rewrite the rules of the American economy

May 18, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Economy, Financial reform, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

The time is ripe for genuine progressive ideas to take hold because, for once, they have a chance to resonate with people across the political spectrum. Bernie Sanders and Joe Stiglitz, together, offer real solutions to an economy, and a country, gone off the rails.

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Obama and TPP

TPP: What Obama’s secret trade deal means for you

April 24, 2015 Madonna Gauding Banks, Corporations, Obama Leave a comment

Since 2009, the Obama administration has been negotiating the Trans-Pacific Parnership (TPP) trade agreement in secret. Only lawyers and advisors representing banks and corporations,

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Hillary Clinton another Wall Street candidate

Hillary Clinton’s pretend populism

April 15, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton One comment

  I watched Hillary’s slick ad announcing her 2016 presidential campaign. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it here. Left writer and thinker

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Ukrainians refusing to fight in U.S. proxy war with Russia

February 11, 2015 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, War One comment

In case you haven’t noticed, U.S. mainstream media has been spewing out anti-Russian, anti-Putin propaganda since the U.S. backed coup in Kiev last year.

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2014, the year I cut my cable and cancelled the NYT

January 9, 2015 Madonna Gauding Corruption, FBI/NSA/CIA, Foreign Policy, Media, War 2 comments

For me, 2014 was a year of profound revelation. It’s the year I came to fully understand the depth of the corruption of the United

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