Tag: 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.
2 or 3 things I know about Capitalism (with apologies to...
We either struggle and strive, by and any and all means, to end the system -- or it will end us.
How to end crony capitalism
What if the anti-establishment wings of both parties came together in a pro-democracy coalition to get big money out of politics?
Faces of pain, faces of hope
The message of the consumer society, pumped out over flat screen televisions, computers and smartphones, to those trapped at the bottom of society is loud and unrelenting: You are a failure.
A beautiful moment of socialism. But now killer capitalism resumes
America at its best is a community of people working together without visions of dollar signs in their eyes.
Dr. Robert Bullard: Houston’s “unrestrained capitalism” made Harvey “catastrophe waiting to...
While the National Hurricane Center is now calling Harvey the biggest rainstorm on record, scientists have been predicting for years that climate change would result in massive storms like Harvey.
Your personal consumption choices can’t save the planet: We have to...
To stave off disaster, we must transform the economic system driving climate change.
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730 million people faced hunger last year: A global crisis demanding urgent action
The latest UN report reveals alarming levels of hunger and malnutrition, highlighting the need for urgent political and financial commitments to address food insecurity worldwide.