Identifying the Real Resistance
Can the rich be trusted to fix a breaking world? Or should the real resistance unite beneath one banner?
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
Losing Out in Critical Technologies: Cisco Systems and Financialization
Cisco turned from innovation to financialization, weakening the position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry
Read more...How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse
Does Stabucks CEO Howard Schultz deserve the title of labor enemy #1?
Read more...People Got Used to Higher Prices and Are Outspending Even Raging Inflation. They Don’t Want This Thing to Land
Year-over-year growth in consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, outpaced the pre-pandemic average. Month-over-month, seasonally adjusted, growth spiked.
Read more...Jim Chanos: The Golden Age of Fraud in Finance
Famed short seller Jim Chanos discusses the ever-rising role of fraud in the US financial system and his views of China.
Read more...In Rural America, Right-to-Repair Laws Are the Leading Edge of a Pushback Against Growing Corporate Power
After years of efforts to advance right-to-repair rules, farmers are starting to get traction.
Read more...The Irish Question
Brexit fudged the question of the Irish border. The Tory “Ultras” that pushed for a hard Brexit are still loaded for bear on this matter.
Read more...Hope Amid Climate Chaos: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Solnit sees hope as central to the clmate change fight. Is that belief well founded?
Read more...EU Gas Price Cap: An Exercise in Futility
The much -maligned EU gas price cap is not looking any better with age.
Read more...Reversing 30 Years of Damage from the Clintons, the DOJ Closes A Price-Fixing Loophole Wide Enough to Drive a Truck Through
Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages
Read more...Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization
Rather than settle for narrow reforms, rail workers are pushing for public ownership of the US railroad system, which is commonplace throughout much of the world.
Read more...Tipping Is Not a Reward—It’s an Insult
Tipping legalizes subminimum wages and keeps workers subservient to the whims of employers and customers.
Read more...An Inconvenient Apocalypse
Authors Jackson and Jensen argue that we need an acopalypse, as in a full recognition of conditions, to make radical envirnmental changes.
Read more...Understanding Money and the Dollar System: Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson at Geopolitical Hour
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai discuss the dollar regime and its prospects.
Read more...ChatGPT Is a Data Privacy Nightmare. If You’ve Ever Posted Online, You Ought To Be Concerned
More reasons to regard ChatGPT as CheatGPT.
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