James Hoffa, Teamsters President, Says Romney 'Wants To Annihilate Organized Labor':
""He wants to annihilate organized labor as we know it," Hoffa told HuffPost outside the Democratic National Convention this week. "It's on his website. I'm not making this up. He's for a national right-to-work law. The Republican Party has veered dangerously to the right. It's rather incredible, in 2012, if you think about it.""
Michael Hudson: Persia’s Monopoly Concessions to Britain, 1872-1901
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Persia's 19th century fight to drive out the British investors who had
obtained monopoly concessions is background to the current crisis.
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