Capitalism
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The Greek tragedy: Act Three
On Thursday night, EU leaders again failed to agree on how to provide proper fiscal support for hard-hit member states to cope with the health costs of the coronavirus pandemic and collapse of their economies from the lockdowns. Continue reading
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Towards A New World Order?
While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic and social impacts are casually ignored. Continue reading
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Johnson to ‘seize NHS’ in bid to further privatisation ready for Brexit
By TruePublica Editor: There is a point when you read something and realise that all is lost. One Nation Conservatism is dead – they are no longer a centre-right political party but little more than a death cult. Their policies since arriving back into power after the Blair years has taken them back to a… Continue reading
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Five proposals for a better world after the pandemic
The following statement, signed by 170 academics from eight universities in the Netherlands, has been widely reported in the Dutch press, becoming a focus for discussion on how to avoid repeating past mistakes when in planning for the future. Continue reading
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Covid-19: Neil Ferguson, the Liberal Lyssenko
In the past, European political leaders yielded to the orders of their astrologers. Today, they refer to them identically to the statisticians of the Imperial College. In the past, the latter have provided them as much justification as they needed for their liberal hospital policy. Today, they predict millions of deaths without any scientific rigour.… Continue reading
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Coronavirus Lockdown and What You Are Not Being Told – Part 2
In Part 1 we looked at the reasons why questioning the coronavirus lockdown, despite the ever present allegation, does not demonstrate a callous disregard for human life. We are going to expand on why it doesn’t in this article. Continue reading
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The euro’s corona crisis
This coming Thursday 23 April there is a video conference meeting of the EU leaders to discuss once again what to do about the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown of production across the area. In particular, there is the vexed question of how to help out those EU members states like Italy and Spain… Continue reading
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Covid-19 attacks the down-and-out in ultra-unequal South Africa
It’s hard to imagine a more worrying place to watch Covid-19 hit a society than Johannesburg, South Africa. This is, after all, the world’s most unequal major city, serving as economic headquarters for the most unequal country. In spite of a poverty rate (at $2.80/day) of more than 60 percent and a national unemployment rate… Continue reading
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US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
“Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we… Continue reading
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Life vs Profit: the real ‘war’ in times of coronavirus
The State needs people to be alive to construct the mythical social contract with them. But Capital is the actual deep state. Continue reading
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Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism
Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus — cares for nothing but reproducing itself. Continue reading
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Searching for Truth in What We are being Told About Covid-19
April 14, 2020 (Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – Following the news regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) we’d be led to believe humanity faces an unprecedented crisis – and judging by the socioeconomic damage being done – it is not that difficult to believe some sort of unprecedented crisis is indeed unfolding. Continue reading
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Mike Davis on pandemics, super-capitalism and the struggles of tomorrow
What are the underlying political, economic and environmental structures that paved the way for this global outbreak? Where do pandemics emerge from? Is our capitalist way of life biologically sustainable? Continue reading
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USA: Capitalism & Racism + Covid-19 = Murder
April 11 — The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Eighty refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies. As of April 10, 92,384 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers Island prison are being offered $6 per hour to dig mass graves on Hart’s Island off the Bronx. That’s… Continue reading
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The US economy before the virus struck
The purpose of this article is to determine the health of the US economy before it sickened from the virus. Why is this important? It is importance lies in this; the impact of the lockdown on the future of the US economy will be mediated by the state of the economy prior to the pandemic.… Continue reading
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Cosmic Gangster Capitalism: Elon Musk Crowds the Heavens
Astronomers tend to have their eyes, and minds, not merely in the clouds but beyond them. The dream of unimpaired vision tends to come with the territory; the better the uninterrupted line, the better the data. But the increasing incidence of clutter above the earth’s surface is becoming more than a point of minor interest. … Continue reading
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The tug of war between the virus and fiscal stimuli
7 April 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom The markets have taken solace from the various fiscal, rather than monetary stimuli, recently introduced, including the $2.2 trillion package by the US Senate. CNBC has observed that: markets have moved sideways over the last 7 sessions. However, as the economic news becomes more disastrous it is likely that this… Continue reading
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Fake Coronavirus Data, Fear Campaign. Spread of the COVID-19 Infection
Do not let yourself be misled by the fear campaign, pointing to a Worldwide coronavirus calamity with repeated “predictions” that hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. These are boldface lies. Scientific assessments of the health impacts of the COVID-19 have been withheld, they do not make the headlines. Continue reading
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Coronavirus Socialism for the Wealthy
When capitalism screeches to a halt and starts its old business of killing off the adventurous but weakened, the enterprising but foolish, those who initially benefited, shed tears. Losses mount, accountants tally up current and future losses. Huge profits somehow do not matter now, as the diminishing balances bite and impress. As this happens, the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 