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Capitalism
Global Capitalist Crisis and the North American Free Trade Agreement: Reflections 21 Years On
The TPP is just the latest in more than two decades of trade agreements that have opened the world to corporate plunder.
Richard D. Wolff | Critics of Capitalism Must Include Its Definition
How an economic system organizes the production, appropriation and distribution of its surplus neatly and clearly differentiates capitalism from other systems.
Capitalism Could Kill All Life on Earth
Capitalism is great at creating profits and products - but it doesn't care about environmental justice.
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Commentary: Insurers Backed Obamacare, Then Undermined It; Now They’re Profiting From It
Playing all sides of the street on Obamacare.
Middle Class? What Middle Class?
Virtually the only class ever mentioned these days is the middle class, and now that seems on the way out.
Christian Parenti on the State, Humanity as Part of Nature and the Malleability of Capitalism
The author, journalist and professor discusses how human society has and can be a positive force to protect the environment.
Economic Update: Profit-Driven Capitalism
This episode provides updates on Verizon's purchase of AOL, and more.
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Is Buffalo Baltimore?
Urban unrest is disruptive to the sacred free market that “the capitalist's tool” exists to serve.
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Higher Education Lobby Quietly Joins For-Profit Schools to Roll Back Tighter Rules
Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry.
Obama to Visit Nike to Promote the TPP. Wait, Nike? Really?
In Nike President Obama may well have found the perfect company to visit to promote yet another job-destroying, billionaire-enriching trade deal.