Over 6 million travelers have been disrupted, and airlines are losing US$200 million a day from airports being closed as a result of Iceland’s volcanic eruption. ++ These losses have undermined airlines as they try to rebound from the recession. ++” Airlines have weathered the effects of recessions, terror attacks, wars and diseases such as SARS in the past and most will
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People are sick and tired of having to pay for their governments’ mistakes; the time has come for elites to take responsibility. ++ It is customary in crisis times for “extraordinary politics” to enable politicians to adopt unpopular measures and people lose out. ++ Yet, as was the case in Argentina in 2002, the real target of the collective rage is no person but a whole system: capitalism. ++
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