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America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff: How Today’s Fiscal Austerity is Reminiscent of World War I’s Economic Misunderstandings
Hudson, Michael
Article
2012
An exploration of how today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misconceptions.
Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
Kavanagh, Jim
Article
2018
Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood ...
Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
Article
1993
An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-a...
The Deficit Made me do it
Chorney, Harold; Hotson, John; Seccareccia, Mario
Book
Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget Deficit, and the Samson Solution
Petras, James
Article
2013
Raising the debt ceiling allows the State to keep borrowing and pay its billionaire creditors.Financing the budget deficit requires borrowing, which involves the sale hundreds of billions of dollars w...
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Medicare Myths and Realities
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine pu...
The Poor Must Die: Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101
Floyd, Chris
Article
2010
For more than 30 years, the world-dominating Anglo-American alliance has been under the sway of factions which, for all their internal squabbling and hair-splitting, are strongly united in their stead...
The Quick and The Dead: Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada
McQuaig, Linda
Book
1991
McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
Seven Public Sector Myths
Finn, Ed
Article
1991
Fact and fiction about the public sector.
Unnecessary Debts
Osberg, Lars, Fortin, Pierre
Book
We Can Save Social Programs
Brooks, Neil
Article
1991
We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.

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Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
Daley,Paul
2015
Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.