Failure of Globalization and the Fourth Estate
“Free Trade,” the banner of Globalization, has not only wrecked the world’s economy, it has left Western Democracy in shambles.
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Joe Firestone: Fiscal Myths of Campaign 2016
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, is in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. It’s time to debunk them.
Read more...Attacks on Sanders, Progressives Falsely Depict Obama As Lefty Failure as Opposed to Neoliberal Success
A sign that the progressive cause is moving out of the wilderness and starting to rattle The Powers That Be is that the messaging apparatus is starting to attempt to demonize Sanders as a hopeless cause. And the arguments made against him and the progressive cause generally are made via bizarre analogies to the neoliberal Obama.
Read more...Hillary Clinton on Social Security Expansion: Words are Wind. A Cold Wind.
Spoiler: Hillary Clinton does not support Social Security expansion. And that’s not the worst of it.
Read more...We’re Winning, Even If We Have to Put Up With Ben Bernanke Naming His Book “Courage to Act”
The 99% is winning, even if the press is working hard to minimize the evidence of success.
Read more...5 of the Biggest Acts of Corporate Hypocrisy in America
Socialism for the rich is inherently hypocritical….but which forms of corporate truth-distortion are the most brazen?
Read more...Michael Perelman: The Essential Handbook for Engineering an Unequal Society
While the thrust of Perelman’s post is no doubt familiar to readers, take note of how simple and few in number are the essential principles for creating a highly unequal society, and how easy it is to describe them them in antiseptic language.
Read more...Clinton Outdoes Tsipras in Kolotoumbas with Her Reversals on TPP, Bank Regulations
The big problem with Hillary is it is hard to believe she stands for anything other than her desire to exercise power. Her latest bout of opportunism only reinforces that notion.
Read more...Privatization, Charters & High-Stakes Tests: Arne Duncan’s Education Legacy
The remaking of public education continue, and not in a good way. A Real News Network interview helps keep tab on this struggle over America’s future.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Parasitic Financial Capitalism
An interview with Michael Hudson on his latest book, Killing the Host, which focuses on the destruction wrought by financial capitalism.
Read more...Richard Richard Wolff on Jobs Now, and David Cay Johnson and Jobs Then
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Typically, when we post a video, we post only one. But I felt these two posts were more powerful combined than separately. First, Richard Richard Wolff, in 38% of American Workforce Still Jobless. Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting […]
Read more...Gaius Publius: More Evidence We’ve Reached a “Peak Water” Tipping Point in California
How the California water crisis, and small temperature changes, can cross tipping points, that can be drivers of action-provoking awareness.
Read more...Europe’s Refugee “Crisis”
The refugee fleeing from the Middle East to Europe are a small trickle compared to the huge flow of people displaced globally by wars and conflict.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Obama Re-Defines Democracy – A Country that Supports U.S. Policy
Obama has decided to use “democracy” as a weapon of coups to turn recalcitrant countries into failed states.
Read more...A Progressive Pope or Greenwashing the Vatican?
Chris Hedges discusses whether the rhetoric coming from Pope Francis helps progressive forces in the world.
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