Paul Craig Roberts on Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host
An introduction to Michael Hudson and his latest book.
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Adolph Reed on Sanders, Coates, and Reparations
Adolph Reed begs to differ with Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations.
Read more...Trump’s Neofascism Isn’t Going Away, Even if Trump Does
Trump represents a new strain in American politics: low wage full employment and the protection of the status of big business through violent discipline.
Read more...Clinton Campaign Goes on Tilt as a Result of Dead Heat With Sanders in Iowa
The Clinton campaign is on the back foot. And it is a spectacle to behold.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Non-Neoliberal Woman President Is Not One of the Choices
Hillary as a neoliberal is not your friend….unless you are a member of the 1% or on their meal ticket.
Read more...Low-Income Housing Shows How Tax Credits Funnel Dollars to the Wealthy Under the Guise of Benefits to the Poor
How tax credits to subsidize social programs like low income housing are really welfare for the rich.
Read more...Flint: Let Them Drink Pollution?
Why the crisis in Flint, Michigan is about race and class, and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.
Read more...Are Economists in Denial About What’s Driving the Inequality Trainwreck?
Today’s richest Americans may soon blow past the tycoons of the Roaring Twenties.
Read more...Bill Black: Wall Street Declares War Against Bernie Sanders
The attacks on Sanders from Wall Street are getting ever more shrill….about time the felt some heat.
Read more...New York Review of Books on How Oligarchs Use Philanthropy to Advance Their Social Agendas (and a Shout Out to NC)
How the 0.1% are using philanthropy as a Trojan Horse for social engineering.
Read more...The 0.1%’s Marie Antoinette Moment
A card-carrying member of the 0.1%, Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone, has reveled himself to be dangerously out of touch.
Read more...Robert Reich: Why the White Working Class Abandoned the Democratic Party
The history of the political calculus that led the Democratic Party to turn its back on its traditional base, the working class, and how that’s coming back to bite now.
Read more...Gauis Publius: The Clinton Campaign Speaks to the New York Times
The Clinton campaign is too obviously interested in its success over that of the nation. And despite the Sanders surge, it still believes in its inevitability.
Read more...Capitalism Versus The Social Commons
How the struggle over who controls the commons, the monied classes or a broader group of citizens, reveals the fundamental contradictions of capitalism.
Read more...Neoliberal Capitalism, Its Crisis, and What Comes Next
The fundamental contradictions of neoliberal capitalism are pushing it to the breaking point.
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