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Showing videos filed under: naked capitalism
Philip Rizk, Phyllis Bennis, Uncloaking Koch & Inequality
January 31, 2011"People are sick and tired of the way things have been for the past 30 years," says Philip Rizk, a blogger and filmmaker based in Cairo. In 2009, Philip was detained by state security after taking part in a protest in support of Gaza, and so has intimate awareness of the control and terror inflicted by the state on its people--who are only escalating, with a general strike called for today and a "Million March" for Tuesday.The F Word: Inequality Drives Egyptians to Streets, But Ours Worse
January 31, 2011It's amazing what inequality can drive people to, eventually. Just look at Egypt. “These big guys are stealing all the money,” one 24-year-old textile worker told standing at his second job as a fruit peddler told a reporter this weekend. "People are desperate.”The F Word: Credit Where Due, Geithner
March 16, 2010We talked about the economy today, and whether Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner deserves more credit. What he should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report -- well, not the report, but the cover-up.Max Blumenthal, Remaking Geithner and Checkpoints
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