After Mubarak: What's Next?

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-- suicides also rose, and violent crime more than fourfold; and

-- Russia's population declined by around 700,000 a year before leveling off; unfettered capitalism killed 10% of it - a startling condemnation of how capitalist excess harms so many, including in other post-Soviet states.

Free Market Repression in Haiti

Except briefly in 1804 after revolutionary liberation turned slaves into citizens and during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure as president, Haitians suffered harsh predatory capitalist exploitation, making it the region's poorest nation and one of the poorest globally. Even before the devastating January 2010 earthquake, followed by greater than ever depravation and raging cholera, its burdens included:

-- imperial control as a de facto US colony;

-- its ruling elite having dominant social and economic control; six families controllig the economy, media, universities, commerce and trade;

-- the region's most unequal wealth distribution and one the most unequal globally;

-- 1% of Haitians controlling half the country's wealth;

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