Capitalism
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The Great Scampede or The Iron Heel Revisited
It would appear that the major capitalist classes of the world have waged total war on the planet’s people without firing a shot and at the same time set up the infrastructure needed to enslave us, and all in order to preserve the rule of a bankrupt Capitalism. Continue reading
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‘K’ Metamorphoses into ‘G’ By William Bowles
19 February 2019 — Investigating Imperialism [I think it’s time to republish a piece I wrote 15 years ago, in 2004, though clearly very few took notice of it then, will it be any different this time? I doubt it, it’s probably already too late to do anything about it. What the Labour government initiated Continue reading
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Crap’s Last Crap or How we Crapped Out By William Bowles
21 October 2018 — Investigating Imperialism With crappy apologies to Samuel Beckett It was just a question of time before the crap spilled over the edge of the bowl. The basement was the first to fill up of course but who looks in the basement; out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Continue reading
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This is for the Guardian, NYT and the BBC: 1939 to 2018 By William Bowles
I don’t think you need a crystal ball to figure out that capitalism is headed down the major war path, it’s displaying all the same pathological signs as it has done in past decades; economic crisis, economic collapse, repression abroad and repression at home. Increasing intolerance; increasing censorship of any opposition to the maniacs allegedly… Continue reading
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Trashing the Planet for Profit By William Bowles
For the most part, us lefties are optimists. We believe in the future, in progress, that things will get better, eventually. That the ludicrous idea that capitalism is the ‘end of history’, that in spite of its relentless propaganda, and notwithstanding the defeat of the first socialist experiments, that there is a future beyond capitalism,… Continue reading
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The Two-FacedBook By William Bowles
The World Wide Web is very difficult to control without overt, and very public, central, i.e. state control. But control had to be reasserted. It was a dilemma for the elite. How to do it without blowing away the illusion of a free and democratic media? Enter ‘fake news’. Continue reading
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The Two-Faced Book By William Bowles
The World Wide Web is very difficult to control without overt, and very public, central, i.e. state control. But control had to be reasserted. It was a dilemma for the elite. How to do it without blowing away the illusion of a free and democratic media? Enter ‘fake news’. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 3, 2013: MHP, Joy-Ann Reid vs Wikileaks & the Constitution, Obama & Mandela: Dangerous Mythology
3 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Joy Ann Reid, Melissa Harris-Perry as Prosecutor & Cop Go After Snowden, Wikileaks, & the Second Amendment by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gandhi once said that western civilization would be “a good idea.” So would black journalism. One white TV Continue reading
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Media Lens: Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State By David Cromwell and David Edwards
Washington and its allies, sold to the public by the media as ‘the international community’, are well aware of the stakes. The general population must be subdued and kept in its place. Obama and his officials in the government, and the US intelligence community, need to assert strenuously that Snowden’s exposure of the massive US… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 19 June 2013: Lies of Empire, No Rollback on Mass Incarceration, Obama's Syrian Press Pass and more…
19 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Lies of Empire: Don’t Believe a Word They Say by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. reprises Iraq, inventing a WMD threat from Syria. The FBI concocts home-grown terror through stings, while the NSA claims it has secretly saved many Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘You Say What You Like, Because They Like What You Say’ By David Cromwell
The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25 per cent of the vote where it stood. This led to a deluge of media headlines and stories echoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s gleeful claim of a ‘game changer’ in domestic politics. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 1, 2013: NY Times Slanders Black Farmers, Crushed By Capitalism, Death in Somalia
1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report March 20, 2013: Disaster Capitalism in Detroit, Cypus, Atlanta, US-Israel Axis of Evil
20 March 2013 — This week in Black Agenda Report From Detroit to Cyprus, Banksters in Search of Prey by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Detroit and the people of Cyprus share the same enemy.” The Lords of Capital, who are preparing to snatch chunks of cash straight out of ordinary people’s accounts in Cyprus, to Continue reading
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Video: Class Struggles in Crisis: From Walmart to the State
A panel discussion introduced and moderated by Socialist Register co-editor Greg Albo Continue reading
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GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter
It’s apparent that, as the academic David Harvey states, the problems created by capitalism don’t get solved, they just get shifted around. Nowhere is this epitomized more clearly than the role of US agribusiness in India. Continue reading