Tag: capitalism
The real socialism in America isn’t what you think
It’s more socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
Bessemer and the power shift
Next week, Amazon faces a union vote at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
Can we have a fair society under capitalism?
Even though capitalism could work, the wealthy won’t compromise enough to make it work.
Bezos, McConnell, and Covid capitalism
The heinous resurgence of COVID makes clear that corporations need more – not fewer – incentives to protect their workers from the virus.
What point in growth?
It seems to me, too, that making the spreading of wealth the goal of society, along with working to making less population another goal, would result in greater happiness for all of us.
‘What stage of capitalism is this?’ Hedge fund $3 billion richer...
With over 100,000 people displaced by wildfires raging across California, Baupost Group collected more than $3 billion in July after betting on insurance claims against embattled utility company PG&E.
When bosses shared the profits
Sharing the profits with all workers is a logical and necessary first step to making capitalism work for the many, not the few.
Police violence and racism have always been tools of capitalism
When the historical and current practices of police are examined, it is evident police have been designed to uphold the status quo including racial injustice and class inequality.
Noam Chomsky on Trump’s disastrous coronavirus response, WHO, China, Gaza and...
"This is the most crucial election in human history, literally. Another four years of Trump, and we’re in deep trouble."
We won’t go back to normal, because normal was the problem
When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.