Truthout
Capitalism
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The 2014 Elections Have Already Happened
When all the memories that hold are about possession and not sharing, no one attacks the fundamental principles of market rule because everyone is too deeply tied to the …
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Corporate Cronyism: The Secret to Overpaid CEOs
Dean Baker: The corporate directors who are supposed to be holding down CEO pay for the benefit of the shareholders are generally buddies of the CEOs.
Any National “Conversation About Race” Must Include Black Radical Tradition
What passes for most ‘conversations about race,’ particularly in corporate media, which shape public perception, are narrow or wrong.
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Bob Dylan and the Ethics of Market Fascism
Bob Dylan's SuperBowl commercial for Chrysler opens, ‘Is there anything more American than America?’ Answer: Maybe this commercial - and not necessarily in a good way.
Laura Flanders | The 1% Should Be Afraid: The New Norm in the Workplace Is Unstable
Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …
Dark Money and the US Chamber of Commerce: Majority of Donations Given by Just 64 Entities
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is swimming in large donations from the top 1 percent.
AOL’s CEO Is Not the Only One Who Should Be Shamed
Laura Flanders: Not long ago it was the Great Recession, today it's Obamacare that's serving as a convenient scapegoat for employers seeking to tighten the screws on their workers.
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SAC Billionaire Steven Cohen Can’t Make His Mommy’s Monkey Jump
Is SAC Capital Advisors' mega-billionaire boss Steven A. Cohen a financial genius or a crook? You be the judge.
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A Renewed Discourse on Inequality
Corporate personhood and the civil and criminal protections it affords exacerbate inequality and destroy principles.
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Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination
In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power,” Max Haiven postulates the need to reclaim and reimagine the commons, to restore humanity and human …