Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Canada's banking system is often lauded for being one of the world's safest. B ...[
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A simple experiment conducted in a reserach institution summarizes the crux of the Occupy Wall Street movement. ...[
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When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Le ...[
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World Bank policies have devastated the Third World. Between 1984 and l990, developing countries under SAPs transferred $178 billion to Western commercial banks. So enormous was the capital drain from the South that one former Bank director remarked: ...[
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David Wong of cracked.com has hilarious things to say about rich people, and their reaction to poor people.
"...All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pissed off about it. And it's only going to get wor ...[
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An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. More than 6,500 veteran suicides are logged every year ...[
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Very similar to how U.S. Troops are currently in Uganda for a 'humanitarian' mission to fight some local groups, Russian anti-terror troops have arrived in syria.
A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a developm ...[
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US campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says elements of Syria's armed opposition have carried out serious human rights abuses, including kidnapping, torture and execution.
The group says the "brutal tactics" of the government cannot justify abuses by ...[
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The first airing of Julian Assange's new political show has been released on RT.com today.
Julian Assange is interviewing Nasrallah, leader of Hezboullah, talking to him from a hiding place from Lebanon.
Assange asks serious questions that concerns th ...[
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