Capitalism

Author Costas Lapavitsas discusses how the neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism.

Although NY faces a $1.7 billion deficit this year, Governor Cuomo proposes a huge tax giveaway to the wealthiest citizens, costing the state nearly $800 million and embolding others.

Wonder why drug prices are skyrocketing? A primer on how lobbying works best to make people really rich.

Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay, that the Vietnam War made it clear there was no way to a more rational capitalism and there had to be fundamental change.

NAFTA has displaced jobs and people, weakened unions and ravaged US cities and rural Mexico. But worker solidarity may be its most important product.

Long-term employees accuse oil giant BP of greed, exploitation and lying about their pensions.

We require an economic and political governance structure that ensures all human beings have access to basic necessities while reducing human pressure on the biosphere.

The official US beatification of Martin Luther King has come at the heavy price of silence about his radical espousal of economic justice and anticolonialism.

We can save capitalism or save human civilization. There is no possible future that contains both.

Until we get serious about taking on oligopolies, consumers have little power.