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Em outras palavras, parece muito com uma elaborada e incomum versão do que os bancos fizeram quando emprestaram dinheiro a ditadores na Bolívia e no Gabão no final da década de 1970: realizaram empréstimos totalmente irresponsáveis com a plena ciência de que, quando os políticos e burocratas soubessem o que tinham feito, estes lutariam para garanti
... See moreDavid Graeber • Dívida: Os primeiros 5 mil anos (Portuguese Edition)
helping innocent people clear their names.
Mark Dagostino • What Set Me Free (The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Brian Banks): A True Story of Wrongful Conviction, a Dream Deferred, and a Man Redeemed
The tasks sent overseas are simply the ones whose greater costs—environmental damage and health risks—can be externalized to the natives of the country where they are being performed. Labor is treated as a commodity.
Douglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.
We are bombarded with useless trivia and celebrity gossip despite the valiant efforts of a few remaining newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, along with Democracy Now, National Public Radio, Pacifica, and Jim Lehrer of the Public Broadcasting Service. These organizations still practice journalism as an ethical pursuit on b
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
it is embarrassing to reckon the huge gap between our pro-free-market rhetoric around the world and the actual market of government regulation of food production we’ve produced here at home.
Lawrence Lessig • Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Why isn’t Puzder on the list for Labor? Andrew Puzder, the head of CKE Restaurants, the holding company for Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., wanted to be the secretary of labor. Christie explained that Puzder’s ex-wife had accused him of abuse, and his fast-food restaurant employees had complained of mistreatment. Even if he was somehow the ideal candidate
... See moreMichael Lewis • The Fifth Risk
