neoliberalism
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Protests in Israel. Why and how much they matter
This is without a doubt the influence of the “Arab Spring.” While Israel has been one of the most viciously neo-liberalized societies in the Western world, and the level of pain inflicted cuts wide and deep, this wave of protests would have been unimaginable before Mubarak fell. Continue reading
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What Is Happening in Egypt by Samir Amin
Now, this is the plan. This is what Obama means by “smooth transition” — the transition which would lead to no change in fact, except some minor concessions, such as that Mubarak would personally leave. That is what is on the agenda now: the movement will continue to develop, radicalize, be more and more demanding… Continue reading
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Reagan Made S&L Crisis Vastly Worse
William K. Black: Reagan obstructed prosecutions against a wave of fraud Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Imperialism and the Western Media By Sean Fenley
The mainstream media’s primary vocation, when it comes to the U.S. reach throughout the planet, is to slander, ridicule and report all sorts of dubious information on, those who are resisting the global neoliberal imperial economic order. Continue reading
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G-20 COMMITS ITSELF TO MORE “NEOLIBERALISM” By Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch: Free movement of capital and strengthening power of global elites G-20 objective Continue reading
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Ending structural blackmail? By Gerald Epstein
Epstein: None of the measures being considered will end “too big to fail” 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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Haiti and the Aid Racket: How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation By ASHLEY SMITH
So far, the relief effort has only managed to provide 270,000 people with basic shelters like tents. More than 1 million people still have little access to food and water and have to scrape by to find sustenance. Even worse, because the relief operation is so inefficient, Haitians report that some of the food spends… Continue reading
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The West’s role in Haiti's plight By Peter Hallward
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on the afternoon of January 13, but it’s no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone. Much of the devastation wreaked by this latest and… Continue reading
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Shambles in Copenhagen By Greg Albo
The turn to market environmentalism of so much of the environmental movement in North America has been in equal parts political and ecological disasters. This effort to form alliances with the capitalist classes and the state within the confines of neoliberalism has done nothing to advance solutions to the most crucial ecological issue of the… Continue reading
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Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development in Latin America By Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer
An analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development over the last two decades has been overshadowed by an all too prevalent “globalization” discourse. It appears that much of the Left has bought into this discourse, tacitly accepting globalization as an irresistible fact and that in many ways it is progressive, needing only for the corporate… Continue reading
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How Ireland Went Bust By Harry Browne
The unemployment rolls in the Republic of Ireland are growing by more than 30,000 per month. It might not sound like a lot, but on a straight per-capita comparison, in a state of some four million people, that’s more than three times worse than what’s been afflicting the US. Continue reading
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Stephen Lendman: Targeting Aristide In Exile
Aristide is now in South Africa where he remains larger than life. Haiti’s symbolic leader. A man of the people. Dedicated to their welfare. Steadfast in his principles. Beloved and wanted back. Yet he’s vilified in the press because of the good example he represents Continue reading
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It’s all-out war on the planet. Chaos (capitalism) rules okay!
7 January, 2008 “The dominant trend shaping the present situation – is the advent of ‘neoliberalism’ – a concerted capitalist offensive aimed at sweeping away the gains made by working people during the last century and at deepening the subjugation of Third World countries.” — Cuban Communist Makes the Case for International Revolution I have Continue reading
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Who are these guys anyway (and other ‘neo-con’ nonsense)? By William Bowles
For the past couple of years a goodly section of the ‘left’ has obsessed over the ‘neo-con’ guys as if they suddenly crawled out from under a rock but as I have observed in many past essays, these guys, far from crawling out from under a rock are the long-time managers of imperialism. Their ‘pedigree’,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Power of Nightmares – Adam Curtis Responds
On 18 and 19 November, we sent out a two-part media alert about the recent BBC2 series, ‘The Power of Nightmares’. Adam Curtis, who wrote and directed the series, located key goals of modern US foreign policy in the beliefs of a group of myth-making neo-conservative “idealists”. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Power of Nightmares and the Real Politics of Fear – Part 2
American elites have long sought to manufacture and promote a shared myth of ‘America’ based on “symbols by which Americans defined their dream and pictured social reality.” Adam Curtis alluded to this myth-making in his BBC series The Power of Nightmares, but he portrayed it as a process initiated and pursued by neoconservatives from the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 