Since 2008, America, Britain and other European nations force-fed austerity harshness. Neoliberal and imperial priorities take precedence. Bankers, war profiteers, other corporate favorites and privileged elites alone benefit. Ordinary people lose out entirely. Public needs go begging. Human misery grows. Things go from bad to worse. Nothing
Force-Fed UK Austerity
In this Dec. 4, 2012 file photo, Britain’s Secretary for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith looks to the media as he walks past the Christmas tree in Downing Street ahead of a cabinet meeting in London. Opponents of a raft of welfare changes want Smith to make good on a claim that he could […]