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![JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon (L), AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson (C) and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg (R) speak during the Business Roundtable (BRT) CEO Innovation Summit](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0820-business-round-table-400x300.jpg)
A Bunch of CEOs Want to Fix Capitalism. You Can’t Fix Anything Built on Slavery.
When the revolution comes, it will be from the bottom up.
![As the climate crisis escalates, we must develop strategies for living while recognizing the contradictions at hand.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0820-climate-sprout-400x300.jpg)
Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning
As the climate crisis escalates, we must develop strategies for living while recognizing the contradictions at hand.
![An exhausted-looking woman stands against a grey wall in front of a window](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0814-depressed-woman-400x300.jpg)
Extreme Inequality Is Driving Anxiety and Depression in the US
Studies show chronic status anxiety is higher at all income levels in less equal countries.
![Two American bald eagles perch on a nesting stand at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0813-bald-eagles-400x300.jpg)
Trump Guts Endangered Species Act in Gift to Big Business
The dramatic rule changes could be the beginning of the end for hundreds of species.
![Protesters attend a Fridays For Future demonstration for climate protection in Dortmund, Germany, on August 2, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0811-climate-change-400x300.jpg)
We Must End Neoliberalism, or Neoliberalism Will End Us
We must choose the well-being of our communities over neoliberalism's false promise of individual freedoms.
![A woman kneels to lay flowers at a memorial](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0805-el-paso-memorial-400x300.jpg)
Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto
U.S. militarism abroad, mass incarceration, and domestic white supremacist attacks replicate and reinforce each other.
![A girl looks at her report card sadly](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0805-report-card-400x300.jpg)
Grades Are Capitalism in Action. Let’s Get Them Out of Our Schools.
Grading teaches meritocracy, which in turn helps deflect blame for capitalism's failures onto its victims.
![Noam Chomsky speaks into a microphone while seated](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0717-noam-chomsky-400x300.jpg)
Noam Chomsky: “Worship of Markets” Is Threatening Human Civilization
We need a government of, by and for the people to replace the prevailing stance, says the world-renowned thinker.
![US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against Jeffery Epstein on July 8, 2019, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0714-jeffrey-epstein-fbi-400x300.jpg)
Jeffrey Epstein Is Exhibit A for Capitalism’s Moral Bankruptcy
Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes in our criminal legal system.
![A man walks up stairs at Pier 15 along the East River at South Street Seaport, March 14, 2019 in New York City. Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a $10 billion plan to extend the Lower Manhattan coastline by up to two city blocks to guard against rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0714-new-york-sea-wall-400x300.jpg)
Climate Adaptation Needs to Put Human Rights Above Property Values
Every dollar spent on sea walls is a dollar not invested into actual carbon reduction.