July 13, 2016
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NYT Lets $27 Million Man Brag About What He’s Doing for Income Inequality
Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was given prime space on the New York Times‘ op-ed page today (7/12/16) to declare that his bank was doing something about “wage stagnation” and “income inequality” by “giving thousands of employees a raise”. Chase is the largest bank in the United States, and in 2015 it made $23.9 billion in… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Great Iraq War Fraud
Last week, seven years after the Iraq Inquiry was set up, Sir John Chilcot finally delivered his long-awaited report. Although it stopped short of declaring the Iraq war illegal, and although it failed to examine the real motives for war, the report was not quite the whitewash that had been feared by peace campaigners. Continue reading
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Video: The Anthropocene and Marxism Today
12 July 2016 — Climate & Capitalism Video: John Bellamy Foster discusses the theoretical and programmatic challenges that the Anthropocene, a dangerous new epoch in planetary history, poses for socialists in the 21st century. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 