{"id":240,"date":"2013-12-31T12:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2022-10-14T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:13:12","slug":"a-must-read-by-chris-hedges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Overthrow the Speculators by Chris Hedges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/staff\/chris_hedges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Hedges <\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Posted on Dec 29, 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/overthrow_the_speculators_20131229?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig%252FChrisHedges+Chris+Hedges+on+Truthdig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TruthDig.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Money, as Karl Marx lamented, plays the largest part in determining the course of history. Once speculators are able to concentrate wealth into their hands they have, throughout history, emasculated government, turned the press into lap dogs and courtiers, corrupted the courts and hollowed out public institutions, including universities, to justify their looting and greed.<\/p>\n<h2>Read full article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/overthrow_the_speculators_20131229?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig%252FChrisHedges+Chris+Hedges+on+Truthdig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TruthDig.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/overthrow_the_speculators_20131229?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig%252FChrisHedges+Chris+Hedges+on+Truthdig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/reportuploads\/hedgesspeculators_300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>AP\/Richard Drew<\/p>\n<p>Traders work at the Goldman Sachs posts on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"IrlPublicBanks\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Overthrow%20the%20Speculators%20by%20Chris%20Hedges\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris Hedges Posted on Dec 29, 2013 TruthDig.com Money, as Karl Marx lamented, plays the largest part in determining<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"IrlPublicBanks\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Overthrow%20the%20Speculators%20by%20Chris%20Hedges\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicirelandbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}