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Capitalism
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Capitalism in Crisis: Who Are the Real “Takers”?
Though the American population clearly feels and is forced to deal with the ramifications of this failing system, it's highly unlikely that capitalism will be dismantled in favor of …
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Chris Hedges | Overthrow the Speculators
Chris Hedges: Today's speculators have created grotesque financial mechanisms, from usurious interest rates on loans to legalized accounting fraud, to plunge the masses into crippling forms of debt peonage.
Capitalism, Ecology and the Official Invisibility of Women
Accounting for the costs to society of environmental degradation is important, but it's also vital to account for women's under-compensated labor in a serious challenge to capitalism's profitability.
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Holiday Greeting: No Peace Without Justice
There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …
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Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons
Increases in payroll taxes, the Detroit bankruptcy and repression against protesters indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.
Free Market Reflexes in Education
Anyone who has run a business realizes that what matters more is what you do with the workforce you have.
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Goodies for the Rich, Pennies for the Poor
Republicans don't give a rat's ass about working-class Americans, but they want you to think they do.
From “Old Detroit” to Delta City: Robocop’s Dystopia in Detroit
Only a genuinely radical response from the public will be able to counteract the selling of Detroit.
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“Liberalism Doesn’t Carry the Critique of Capitalism That Progressivism Does“
Why “neoliberals” are so different from “FDR liberals” and how the changing terms pertained to the free market.
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Media: Play Fair With Economic Reporting on Greece
The Greek government is projecting a return to growth in 2014, a forecast supported by the International Monetary Fund, but some mainstream media outlets are reporting one agency's forecast …