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Video: Richard Trumka on TTIP (tags)
TTIP represents a crisis for democracy and the constitutional state. Corporations could sue states in parallel private arbitration courts. Labor and environmental regulations could be chilled or invalidated as indirect expropriation.
Austerity Policy Leads to Low Economic Growth, 43pp (tags)
This IMF Working Paper published on January 31, 2013 was co-authored by the chief IMF economist Olivier Blanchard. The IMF erred in its fiscal multiplier in estimating the effects of state spending cuts in deficit countries. The paper was greeted by silence in Germany and the US.
Proposed FCC Media Consolidation Rules (tags)
media
BUILDING AND DESTROYING EMPIRES (tags)
The combat to the American empire is just beginning.
FCC Proposes Greater Media Consolidation (tags)
FCC proposal will harm independent journalism
FCC Destroyed Report Favorable to Local Television Ownership Groups Fighting Against Media Consolidation React to News
Radio Under Fire Over Free-Speech Clampdown (tags)
WASHINGTON (Billboard) - Natalie Maines' controversial comments about President Bush are echoing ever louder in Congress and starting to rattle windows in the radio industry.