Capitalism
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Joe Bageant: Joe, why did you crap out on us?
Did everything get so hopeless you just gave up? I liked your fighting spirit here, in 2004, and feel when you’ve got a voice, as you have, we’d appreciate hearing it as a call to arms instead of an old man’s complaints. I can say this without being ageist, I’m probably older than you. Continue reading
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The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. Continue reading
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Videos from Left Bloc Climate Conference
O Clima Farto de Nos? (Is the climate sick of us?) was held in Lisbon, March 26-27. It was organized by Portugal’s Left Bloc and the parties of the European Left. This important event drew left socialist and green activists from a dozen European countries, to discuss how to build a mass movement for climate… Continue reading
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The crisis of neoliberalism Pt.2
31 March, 2010 — The Real News Network Duménil: Neoliberal trends setting up a terrible future of inequality and exploitation for the workers View Part 1 Here http://therealnews.com/permalinkedembed/mediaplayer.swf Bio Dr. Dumnil is one of the worlds foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have… Continue reading
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The crisis of neoliberalism By GERARD DUMENIL
When we speak of neoliberalism, we speak of contemporary capitalism. Neoliberalism, it’s a new stage of capitalism which began around 1980. It began in big countries like United Kingdom and the United States. Then it was implemented in Europe, and later in Japan, and later around the world in general. So this is a new… Continue reading
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The Sacred Demise Of Industrial Civilization By Peak Moment TV
As a historian, Carolyn Baker has a keen eye for current events that are indicators of the collapse we’re seeing all around us. But she’s also a psychologist concerned about how we personally navigate the turbulence and find meaning within it. The author of Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse, she… Continue reading
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To rob a country, own a bank Pt4 By William Black
Ten steps to reform the finance sector – that the Administration and Congress won’t do Continue reading
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To rob a country, own a bank Pt3 By William Black
So many shoes to fall from this crisis it will be like Imelda Marcos closet after an earthquake Continue reading
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To rob a country, own a bank Pt2 By William Black
20 March, 2010 — The Real News Network http://therealnews.com/permalinkedembed/mediaplayer.swf Watch Part 1 Here Continue reading
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“The best way to rob a bank is to own one” Part 1 By William Black
19 March, 2010 — The Real News Network Watch Part Two Here Bio William K. Black, author of THE BEST WAY TO ROB A BANK IS TO OWN ONE, teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri — Kansas City (UMKC). He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007.… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: From Wall Street to Skank Street
Some people understood at the time that it was a banker rigged game from top to bottom, one that included an elite cadre of players ranging from Wall Street to the Fed, the IMF and the World Bank. Most saw only a few aspects of the global financial growth-bot. But they saw them clearly enough… Continue reading
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Hedge funds deliberately undermining Euro – RT
Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are looking closely at euro trades, following reports that leading US hedge funds have been in collusion to undermine the European currency through the crisis in Greece. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are probing euro-trading on financial markets. Continue reading
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The Wolf Report: Accumulation and Decomposition in the Era of Lift and Separate, More By S. Artesian
For capital to become capital, for the bourgeoisie to become the bourgeoisie, the capacity for labor has to be detached from the means of labor, so that labor itself appears as a commodity with only one use, its usefulness in exchange for the medium by which labor can purchase its own subsistence. The laborers confronts… Continue reading
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Round Midnight — tortillas and the corporate state By Joe Bageant
There is a terrible science fiction-like awe in the autonomous American economic monolith, in the way that it provides for us, feeds on us and keeps us as its both its lavish pets and slaves. The commodity economy long ago enslaved Americans and other “developed” capitalist societies, especially Americans. The most profound slavery must be… Continue reading
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China, Japan and the U.S.: Together in Crisis?
5 February, 2010 — LeftStreamed LeftStreamed Production Produced by the LeftStreamed Collective. Viewers are encouraged to distribute widely. Comments on the video and suggestions are welcome – write to info@socialistproject.ca For more analysis of contemporary politics check out ‘Relay: A Socialist Project Review’ at www.socialistproject.ca/relay R. Taggart Murphy, Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of… Continue reading
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The Battle of the Titans: JP Morgan Versus Goldman Sachs Or Why the Market Was Down for 7 Days in a Row By Ellen Brown
The late Libertarian economist Murray Rothbard wrote that U.S. politics since 1900, when William Jennings Bryan narrowly lost the presidency, has been a struggle between two competing banking giants, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The parties would sometimes change hands, but the puppeteers pulling the strings were always one of these two big-money players. No… Continue reading
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CSRC Project-First Workshop: “The Roots of the Economic Crisis: Critical Perspectives” – Part 1
This workshop explores alternative interpretations of the current economic crisis. The presentations are from organized labour, community activists and academics. The focus of this workshop is critical engagement, discussion and debate. Questions addressed include: How have various perspectives analyzed and understood the roots of the current economic crisis? Is there something fundamentally unsound about the… Continue reading
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"China, America, and the Economic Crisis: Minqi Li Interviewed by Paul Jay"
The point is that China right now is still depending on the export markets, depending on export to the US. So, that gives the US a little bit of leverage. But on the other hand, the US cannot expect to hold that leverage forever, because the US will not be able to return to the… Continue reading
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Former Soviet States: Battleground For Global Domination By Rick Rozoff
A Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 