World Economic Forum 2015: Global Governance In a World of Resistance

The annual conference features globalization’s "Mafiocracy" of bankers, industrialists, oligarchs, technocrats and politicians who promote common ideas and serve common interests: their own.

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New Oxfam Report Shows Half Of Global Wealth Is Held By the 1%

Rising inequality is dangerous. A concentration of wealth capturing power is leaving ordinary people voiceless.

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World of Resistance Report: Davos Class Jittery Amid Growing Warnings of Global Unrest

Oligarchic interests represented at the World Economic Forum have recently taken keen interest in the potential for social upheaval as a result of mass inequality, global youth unemployment and poverty.

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Just Don't Talk About Power: Exposing the Davos Class

A new report by the Transnational Institute makes clear that the widening gulf between rich and poor is closely tied to an economic system that favors corporate rights over human rights.

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Crashing the Party at Davos: It's Time to Seize Power on the Mountaintop

Humanity does have a chance at survival: it just lies at much lower altitudes in the social hierarchy than the crowd now patting themselves on the back at the World Economic Form in Davos.

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Davos Report: World's 85 Richest have Same Wealth As All of Bottom 50 Percent

The world's elite have rigged laws in their own favor, undermining democracy and creating a chasm of inequality across the globe.

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Global Power Project: Connecting Josef Ackermann, the Institute of International Finance and the Euro Debt Crisis

When the European debt crisis hit headlines in 2010, the Institute of International Finance was again on the scene and playing a major part, like it did during the 1980s debt crisis. At the center this time was the CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann.

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U.S. Executive Pay Soars As "The Outrageous Has Become the Everyday"

According to figures released last week, 38% of the top-paid CEOs of U.S. companies over the past two decades were fired or headed companies that were either bailed out by taxpayers or forced to pay significant fraud-related fines.

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Global Power Project, Part 9: Banking on Influence With Morgan Stanley

The bank that has committed a raft of fraud, illegal foreclosures, energy price fixings and food market speculations took in more than $107 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds in the bailouts.

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Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence with Citigroup

Citigroup, the largest single recipient of US taxpayer bailout funds with some $476 billion in cash and guarantees, didn't just defraud investors: it foreclosed on hundreds of U.S. military members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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