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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the worl

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“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”

— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Democracy, Muddle Policy

“The United States has the highest level of child poverty of any industrial society, followed by the rest of the English-speaking world.”

— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com

Tagged: The United States, Poverty

“The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social and economic inequality, a marked increase in severe deprivation for the poorest nations and peoples of the world, a disastrous global environment, an…”

— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Economic Inequality, Global Economics

“Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.”

— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Capitalism, Big Companies, Corporatism, Media Manipulation