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“There was this vagueness about the word that just seemed to be not just corruptible but almost inherently corrupt,” says the writer, film-maker and activist. “I was attracted to words like liberation, emancipation, equality, revolution, socialism. Any other word would get my pulse going more than democracy.” For her, democracy was a word imperial America used to sell free markets and push its agenda. Writer and film maker  Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution
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The banks in "liberal democracies" They are fined and they carry on with business as usual until they commit another crime. Then we fine them and they carry on with business as usual. What else could be done? It is not "human nature" and some "rogue agents"?  Obviously, founding a bank has not ever been better than robbing one as it is today. "Deutsche Bank was embroiled in a vast money-laundering operation, dubbed the  Global Laundromat . Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin, the old KGB and its main successor, the FSB, used the scheme between 2010 and 2014 to move money into the western financial system. The cash involved could total $80bn, detectives believe." Deutsche Banks and other banks in Russian money-laundering schemes
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