Tag: capitalism
Trump wants socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest
Trump perfected the art of using bankruptcy to shield himself from the consequences of bad decisions – socialism for the rich at its worst – while leaving employees twisting in the wind.
Capitalist-style wealth gap: 1 tech guy = 1,000,000 teachers
Capitalism is a perfect system for people like this, who care only about making more money than everyone else, and fail to grasp the importance of a healthy, working society.
Capitalism is killing patients…and their physicians
Capitalism does not just threaten the health and well being of every human, but life on this earth as we know it.
When profit drives us, community suffers
We evolved to be connected to nature and to one another, but our exploitative global economy is severing those relations.
The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt
“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”
The capitalist manifesto: Let poor people die
Market-happy illusionists keep spouting nonsense about a healthy economy built on today's capitalism.
The second sight of W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois would hardly fare better today. His radical critique of empire and capitalism would make him even more of a pariah in the academy and on the airwaves.
9 conservative myths about corporations
Capitalism and corporations are only as good as we design the system to be.
The power of words and war on Democracy
How language can help in the fight against authoritarianism.
Capitalism and the world we are creating
Capitalism as an economic system has been hoisted to a status none dare criticize as though it were a religion.
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The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
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What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
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.