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Feudalism Then & Now
FEUDALISM THEN & NOW
The Socialist Lie that We have had Always a Growth Economy Since Roosevelt
The Socialist Lie that We have had Always a Growth Economy Since Roosevelt A comment by a reader with a philosophy is interesting and delusional at the same time. “Armstrong chose not to seek any compromise but to put all the blame on government. In principle, that’s got to be an absurd point of view. So […]
Fork the Economy
Fork the Economy I’ve given up on fixing the economy. The economy is not broken. It’s simply unjust. There’s a difference. We have to stop looking at our economy as a broken system, but one that is working absolutely true to its original design. It’s time to be progressive — and this means initiating systemic […]
The Illusion of Freedom
The Illusion of Freedom A campaign rally last week in Michigan. In the current presidential contest, a frustrated white working class has been receptive to anti-democracy messages. (Carlos Osorio / AP) The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages our elections? Who writes our legislation and laws? Who determines […]
America’s Dying Democracy
America’s Dying Democracy Democracy, as a noble principle of self-governance, is fading away in big ways and small, with special interests seizing control of both media and politicians and with the people increasingly manipulated and misinformed. In this impassioned appeal, Bill Moyers calls it “the fight of our lives.” In the fall of 2001, in […]
More Corporate Cronyism and Shadiness Revealed in Newly Released Obamatrade Report
More Corporate Cronyism and Shadiness Revealed in Newly Released Obamatrade Report The good news is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently admitted that the TPP, aka Obamatrade, has very little chance of passing Congress before next year’s Presidential election. The bad news is the main reason for this is because the RINOs in charge don’t think […]
Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death
Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death LAST WEEK The Intercept published a package of stories on the U.S. drone program, drawing on a cache of secret government documents leaked by an intelligence community whistleblower. The available evidence suggests that one of the documents, a study titled “ISR Support to Small Footprint CT Operations — Somalia/Yemen,” was produced for the […]
Twenty-First-Century Fascism
Twenty-First-Century Fascism Globalization of trade and central banking has propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The financial center of global […]
This is How the Trade Pact Escalates the Currency War
This is How the Trade Pact Escalates the Currency War When negotiators from 12 nations and hundreds of lobbyists from around the world, after years of horse-trading, agreed on a “trade deal” on Monday – a deal that remains secret except for the sections that have been leaked – President Obama gushed that it “reflects […]
What It Means to Be a Socialist
What It Means to Be a Socialist Chris Hedges gave this speech Sunday at a Santa Ana, Calif., event sponsored by the Green Party of Orange County. We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The […]
The Dismal and Hopeful Future
The Dismal and Hopeful Future One doesn’t have to be a brilliant social analyst to see that the contemporary world order is doomed, destined to start visibly crumbling within the next decade or two at the latest. The neoliberal system, in fact the corporate capitalist system, is radically unsustainable. It is too unstable, too universally […]
Peak Financial Engineering? Trends Spiral South
Peak Financial Engineering? Trends Spiral South Our corporate heroes hit a snag. We have long grinned painfully at the ways in which Corporate America and analysts collude to present the quarterly earnings charade in the rosiest light possible. But now, it seems they have reached the end of their magic tricks, and reality is showing […]
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending The Sierra Club sent a letter to President Obama this week, urging the President to make good on his promise of increasing transparency in Washington. Specifically, the environmental group wants the administration to be forthright about the political spending of mega-polluters and their government contracts. Courtney Hight, director […]
Big Pharma Revealed As Puppetmaster Behind TPP Secrecy
Big Pharma Revealed As Puppetmaster Behind TPP Secrecy It is no secret that US healthcare corporations have been among, if not the biggest beneficiaries of Obamacare: by “socializing” costs and spreading the reimbursement pool over the entire population in the form of a tax, pharmaceutical companies have been able to boost medical product and service […]
Rule By The Corporations
Rule By The Corporations TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. “Free trade” is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, […]
