Zeitgeist Watch: Wall Street Suicides and the Fear of Falling
Some ruminations about what bankers suicides say about Wall Street.
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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...Bernanke’s Cockroaches
Every time I read a new, improved set of excuses from people like Bernanke, I feel like I’ve walked into my kitchen and turned on the lights after the exterminator paid a visit, only to find cockroaches all over my counter yet again.
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: What’s Called “Capitalism” Is Far from Any Model of Capitalism or Market
Tony Benn and Noam Chomsky take a hard look at what passes for capitalism.
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.
Read more...Ilargi: Europe’s Refugees Are a Global Crisis
European leaders are still in denial about the seriousness of the refugee crisis and are focused on what amount to stopgap measure.
Read more...Tony Benn’s Ten Minute History of Neoliberalism
A must-watch speech by the great British socialist Tony Benn.
Read more...Don Quijones: Uruguay Does Unthinkable, Rejects TISA and Global Corporatocracy
Uruguay is the only country that has had any kind of public discussion about TiSA and its potentially game-changing implications.
Read more...Privatizing the Apocalypse: How Nuclear Weapons Companies Commandeer Your Tax Dollars
How the nuclear weapons industry keeps itself out of the public’s eye despite its huge costs and risks.
Read more...The History of Witchhunts and Their Relevance to the Present Day
Primitive accumulation, the peasant wars, and witchhunts as a means of social control.
Read more...Building a Historical Index of Happiness Using Google Books
Is there merit in trying to measure happiness hundreds of years ago versus now?
Read more...The Star Trek Fallacy: Romanticizing Imperialism
Was Star Trek wrong in promoting the notion that peaceful exploration is possible?
Read more...CalSTRS, Maryland Fund Private Equity Players Seeking Profits in the Refugee Crisis
Private-equity-backed providers undercut charities in providing refugee services. It’s not hard to imagine how the results are coming in.
Read more...Chris Hedges and Leo Panitch: We are All Greeks Now
Leo Panitch and Chris Hedges discuss how nature of imperialism today is financial power.
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