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Capitalism
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Good Consumers, Bad Citizens
Michael Winship: When did we stop being citizens and become merely consumers?
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The Average CEO Made $9.7 Million in 2012
Whatever their justification, the shocking fact is that the average CEO in 2012 earned 354 times more than the average worker.
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Is the Monsanto Protest the Next Salt March?
Is it possible that the fight against Monsanto could be a tipping point in the battle against corporate greed?
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Consumerism and Its Discontents
The US millennial generation and their elders are wrestling with the fundamental edict of capitalism: Buy and you shall be happy.
Economic Update: A Journalist’s Perspective
Updates on changing US retirement ages, Pope Francis's anti-capitalism, inequality inside countries, unionists march in Rome.
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Resistance in Ohio, Fracking’s Dumping Ground
Ohio has become a fracking dumping ground, with 179 wells absorbing more than 1 billion gallons of hazardous wastewater from the process from several states, and now legislators and …
Teach Your Children Well: Don’t Play Monopoly
You don't have to own Park Place to be a winner.
Economic Update: Measuring Capitalism’s Results
Updates on Google caught evading taxes, food stamp nation, public higher ed crisis.
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Henry A. Giroux | Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to close 54 public schools is one more example of a neoliberal system at work.
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To Desire to Make Capitalism Moral Is, in Reality, to Demand Its Suppression
Moralizing capitalism, what does this mean and is it conceivable?