Capitalism
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 September, 2011: The Lingering Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
10 September, 2011 — Information Clearing House House of Horrors By Paul Balles Assassinations, kidnappings, torture – the actions of uncivilised pirates, barbaric criminals and rogue governments. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29089.htm Continue reading
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Video: Is Capitalism Doomed?
Gerry Epstein comments on Nouriel Roubini’s blog that “Marx was right” Continue reading
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Alexander Salitski – No Point in Discarding State Capitalism (I)
Last June, Russia’s series of investment forums presented Moscow with an opportunity to unveil plans for a serious correction of its economic policies, and what seems to be at the bottom line is a radical departure from the concept of state capitalism. Continue reading
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 July 2011: China / NATO / Nazism / Canada / Lithuania
8 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation No Point in Discarding State Capitalism (I) 08.07.2011 | 15:42 | Alexander SALITZKI It is common knowledge that the past three decades highlighted the fundamental advantages of modern Asia’s pattern of economic progress. The pattern can be defined as a combination of the modernization imperative and the practice Continue reading
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Fukushima: Growing resistance challenges pro-nuclear policies By Pierre Rousset
Every day brings new revelations on the gravity of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daichi and on the mendacious policies which covered the activity of the nucleocrat lobby, on the breadth of the risks imposed on the population by the choice of the atom, on the denial of democracy. Continue reading
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Moeletsi Mbeki: On Wealth creation in South Africa
I CAN predict when SA’s ‘Tunisia Day’ will arrive. Tunisia Day is when the masses rise against the powers that be, as happened recently in Tunisia. The year will be 2020, give or take a couple of years. The year 2020 is when China estimates that its current minerals-intensive industrialisation phase will be concluded. Continue reading
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European Spring: The Gradual demise of Capitalism By Gaither Stewart
Rome: It’s an accumulative kind of thing, the demise of capitalism worldwide: at first the waning and the dwindling, now the rapid corkscrew-like downwards spiraling, of greedy, vicious, cannibalistic capitalism busily devouring itself. Today, one can only conclude the imminence of its just demise. Continue reading
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Bizzaro Capitalism By Kim Petersen
Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher has come up with a novel proposal for raising more money for the cash-strapped USA: charge the victims of US aggression. Continue reading
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Predatory Capitalism and War for Oil
Larry Wilkerson: The first Gulf War made me begin to understand that our military strategy was all about oil Continue reading
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The Palestinian State and Neo-Liberal Capitalism
Shir Hever: The declaration of a Palestinian state in September will face impossible borders and a neo-liberal capitalism economy Continue reading
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Opposition to Paying for Capitalism’s Crisis
Professor Richard D. Wolff’s academic work and public lectures warning of a crisis of capitalism preceded the current disaster. In this event, Wolff discussed the fallout of the economic collapse and the ongoing struggle over who will bear the massive costs. Continue reading
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Part 2: 23 Things They Don’t Tell you About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners Continue reading
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Part 2: 23 Things They Don’t Tell you About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners Continue reading
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‘Capitalism at fault for global crisis’ — Ha-Joon Chang
Is capitalism to blame for the rise in unrest and the fall of global markets? One scholar argued yes, saying it is merely how capitalism works. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Comment Is Free But Freedom Is Slavery – An Exchange With The Guardian’s Economics Editor
In the dark days before Media Lens existed, and before Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger stopped responding to our emails, he actually granted us the courtesy of a chat by telephone. The interview was notable for its long gaps, its ums and ahs, as Rusbridger responded amiably to our questions about the news propaganda role of… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM?
If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as: How can the Americans remain so consistently brain-fucked? Much of the world, including plenty of Americans, asks that question as they watch U.S. culture go down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 November, 2010: Capitalism and the War on Public Education
8 November, 2010 — Information Clearing House Bush Admits He Considered Attacks on Iran and Syria By Ewen MacAskill and Chris McGreal in Washington George Bush ordered the Pentagon to plan an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and considered a covert attack on Syria, the former president reveals in his memoirs. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26780.htm Let’s Attack Iran! Continue reading
The New Dark Age 