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Capitalism Won’t Fix the Climate Crisis. It Will Also Not Survive It.
No system predicated on greed will prevail against the storm that is coming, says volcanologist Bill McGuire.
Wealthy Donors Bankroll Christian Nationalists to Sustain Unregulated Capitalism
Funded by a 1 percent of megadonors and corporations, the religious right has grown to a grotesque size.
Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry
“All of these systems of extraction are always connected,” says Beatrice Adler-Bolton.
We Can’t Avoid Climate Breakdown Without Reducing Growth, Leading Economist Says
We must replace the drive for quantitative growth with qualitative, sustainable development, says economist Herman Daly.
Fed Rate Hikes Are “Body Blow” to Workers Reeling From Pandemic
Experts forecast another economic recession in the United States with rising inflation and an unchanged minimum wage.
Many Nations Have Used COVID to Impose the Tyranny of Transnational Capital
The “new normal” rammed during the pandemic involves increasingly obscene power held by transnational corporations.
GOP Wants to Blame Biden for Inflation. What About COVID and Capitalism?
COVID! Come on, you can say it, the monster is still under the bed, no sense pretending otherwise.
To End Mass Shootings, We Need to Change the Deeper Structure of Life in the US
Resistance is the only option, and it has to be educational, structural, bold and disruptive.
Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies
The pandemic showed that localized economies are better equipped to respond to the needs of their communities.
Capitalism Is to Blame for How Quickly US COVID Deaths Reached 1 Million
The idea of obeying science when it might cost multibillion-dollar corporations their market share was heresy.