Tag: capitalism
Disaster capitalism ‘hits new heights’ as Wall Street profiteers cash in...
“Seems a lot easier and cheaper to make an emergency fund permanent rather than pay private lender fees.”
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."
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.