Word: anticapitalist
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...what he terms the Afterlife, early retirement in a dirt-cheap yet pleasant developing country. Now, as Glynis' medical bills come in, the prospect of the Afterlife is dwindling along with his savings. Shep's best friend, toxic pontificator Jackson, spends his waking hours taking mental notes for an anticapitalist manifesto he'll never write, but his real problem is heartbreak over his 16-year-old daughter Flicka, who was born with a fatal genetic disease called familial dysautonomia. Flicka is angry because she is deformed, drooling and dying. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...thing, it's a reminder that Geithner is the kind of guy who hosts dinners for bankers. He's not a populist; he's allergic to populists, and so are his aides. Behind closed doors, Treasury officials can sound like their MoveOn.org caricatures, griping about "wacko populists" who use "anticapitalist rhetoric" to "extract their pound of flesh from the Street" - even making excuses for the megabankers who no-showed a recent White House meeting with Obama. ("I wouldn't say they blew him off," said one Treasury aide.) Geithner has opposed proposals to tax Wall Street bonuses as well...
Despite the energy nationalization and Morales' strident anticapitalist rhetoric, Weisbrot adds, foreign investment is higher now than it was under many of Morales' predecessors. Much of that success was driven by the decade's abnormally high prices for commodities like natural gas, and it was hardly expected from a man who, like Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, did not attend college and concedes he didn't know what inflation meant before he became President. "When Morales admitted [during a visit to the U.S.] that it wasn't until after his election that the concept was explained...
...Riots in Athens What we saw in Greece in the last few weeks was atrocious [Dec. 22]. Granted, a boy is dead from alleged police negligence, but that does not give license to hooded and masked anticapitalist anarchists to pillage communities and deface public and private property. These people should take a page from the citizenry of Australia and the United States, who showed their dissatisfaction with the powers that be with their right to vote. Since when has the right to an open government and democracy come from under a mask? Nicholas Chrisopoulos, Melbourne...
...Riots in Athens What we saw in greece in the last few weeks was atrocious [Dec. 22]. Granted, a boy is dead from alleged police negligence, but that does not give license to hooded and masked anticapitalist anarchists to pillage communities and deface public and private property. These people should take a page from the citizenry of Australia and the United States, who showed their dissatisfaction with the powers that be with their right to vote. Since when has the right to an open government and democracy come from under a mask? Nicholas Chrisopoulos, Melbourne...