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Ukraine Crisis Proves EU is Imperialist Trap Subservient to US, w/ former Greek MP Costas Lapavitsas

Rania Khalek Dispatches

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The Foundation of Economic Inequality

We've witnessed forty years of extraordinary, a rising inequality. As we shifted away from gainsinism to new liberalism and new liberalism became the foundation of economic economic inequality has gone through the roof. The first is that therehas been entless pressure on real wages across the cor countries of the world for the last four decades. That's been the mechanism for sustaining profitability in the cor countries. And what allowed that policito to too intrench itself, other than the weakness of trade unions, obviously, and the weakness of the labor ment, has been the ability to import cheap consumer goods from the east.

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