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"Prior to colonisation, most people lived in subsistence economies where they enjoyed access to abundant commons – land, water, forests, livestock and robust systems of sharing and reciprocity. They ha…"

"Scientists tell us that up to 140,000 species of plants and animals are disappearing each year due to our of the Earth's ecosystems. This rate of extinction is 100 to 1,000 times faster than before th…"

"From his base on, the island shared today by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, he forced the local inhabitants - the - to bring him a certain quantity of gold every three months. Those who failed to d…"

"While global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, the number of people living in poverty, below $5 per day, has increased by more than 1.1 billion. Why is this? Because past a certain point, GDP gr…"

"Economists often speculate that the failed to develop because of a lack of capital. But there was no such lack. The wealth that might have provided the capital for development was effectively stolen b…"

"Jason Hickel articles for The Guardian."

"Today, some 4.3 billion people - more than 60 per cent of the - live in debilitating poverty, struggling to survive on less than the equivalent of $5 per day. Half do not have access to enough food. A…"

"The growing economic power of the richest percentiles translated directly into increased political power, as they gained new influence over elections. In the USA, the collapse of as a result of neolib…"

"The plunder of Latin America left in its wake. In India, 30 million died of. Average living standards in India and China, which had been on a par with Britain before the colonial period, collapsed."

"As it turns out, making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer. Nor does it stimulate economic growth, which is the sole justification of. In fact, quite the opposite is true: since the…"

"In light of this, perhaps we should regard countries like not as underdeveloped, but rather as appropriately developed. We should look at societies where people live long and happy lives at low levels…"

"To get a sense of how extreme is: if we all were to live like the average citizen of the average high-income country, we would require the ecological capacity equivalent of 3.4 earths."

"If we dig behind the rhetoric, it becomes clear that Western support for right-wing coups had little to do with Cold War ideology, and certainly nothing to do with promoting democracy ; the goal, rath…"

"A contradiction lies at the very centre of the neoliberal project. On a theoretical level, neoliberalism promises to bring about a purer form of democracy, unsullied by the tyranny of the state. Indee…"

"People commonly think of neoliberalism as an ideology that promotes totally free markets, where the state retreats from the scene and abandons all interventionist policies. But if we step back a bit, …"

"was intended to be a war-time measure, which is why it is so single-minded - almost even violent. It tallies up all money-based activity, but it doesn't care whether that activity is useful or destruc…"

"The Reagan and Thatcher administrations eventually came to power on platforms that promised to enhance individual freedoms by liberating capitalism from the 'shackles' of the state - reducing taxes on…"

"Rather than submitting to plans handed down by central governments in distant capitals, people are using to make decisions about their resources and environments, seeking regeneration and harmony with…"

"When the CIA made clear that they would back a coup, General - who was upset with President Sukarno for supporting policies that undermined the military's power - offered to lead it. In 1965, with the…"