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IRS Scandal: More Than Meets the Eye Stephen Lendman 2013-05-18 12:03 AM
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Debt jubilee: Revolutionary change or reform to stabilize capitalism? Systemic Disorder 2013-05-15 2:00 PM
Canceling the world’s debts would be a welcome reform, but in itself wouldn’t challenge the world capitalist system without a debt jubilee being one piece of a more comprehensive struggle. (text/plain)

The Elite Look Down on Democracy Jens Berger and Hans Springstein 2013-05-15 4:13 AM
The thought-models of the economy have conquered all other social sciences. The person in these models is a homo oeconomicus, a rational agent whose only drive is maximizing his benefits. Only an action with the driving force of egoism is rational. (text/plain)

VIDEO: "The Future of the European Union," Michael Higgins Michael Higgins 2013-05-02 11:12 AM
Michael Higgins is president of Ireland. We can be citizens and not only consumers! (text/plain)

Austerity or Keynesianism: Can’t we do better than this? Systemic Disorder 2013-05-02 10:21 AM
The capitalist parties of the “Left” are trapped by their fervent wishes to stabilize an unstable capitalist system — the solution to the structural crisis of capitalism is not to be found on a ballot. (text/plain)

The Competition Ideology - the Greatest Evil of our Age Robert Musik and Stefan Meretz 2013-05-01 6:07 AM
The competition ideology has been hammered into our heads for thirty years. Claiming better outcomes are generally realized when everything is poisoned by the competitive is pure ideology. Competition that exceeds the limits of its useful fields orders murderous measures. (text/plain)

Society of the Few Hans-Peter Gensicher 2013-04-26 5:34 AM
People still believe in the “faster, higher and bigger.” This fiction is maintained through over-chemicalization, over-technization, genetic manipulation or simply bribery of the judges. People lie to themselves. (text/plain)

Gold Drops Most in 30 Years Stephen Lendman 2013-04-16 12:28 AM
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The BRIC - States: World Economy on a Silk Thread Jorg Goldberg 2013-04-11 5:28 AM
In 2013 for the first time since the beginning of European industrialization, the production volumes of the threshold- and developing countries will surpass the volumes of the triad. Sinking real investments is true for all `developed' countries. (text/plain)

Those who do the work in the workplace should get the rewards Systemic Disorder 2013-04-03 3:07 PM
People are taught to have a 19th century, romantic notion of capitalism — a myriad of small enterprises competing in a free market. But a “free market” has never existed. Capitalism was built on brutal displays of force, and continues to be based on violence. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Humanism and Violence Stefan Silber 2013-04-02 5:54 AM
The ideology of the invisible hand of the market transforms all barbarism that is committed into human service.. The modern age is a doubled humanism..State terrorism presents itself as humanist realism, as the only true way of protecting life. (text/plain)

New BRICS Development Bank Announced Stephen Lendman 2013-03-28 12:17 AM
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VIDEO: Mary Robinson - "Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice" Mary Robinson 2013-03-26 11:19 AM
Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, talks about her memoir at the Cooper Union in New York City. (text/plain)

Chavez Succeeded Where Obama Failed Shamus Cooke 2013-03-12 9:59 PM
When President Obama campaigned in 2008 in Portland, Oregon over 70,000 people came to hear his speech. And although I missed the event, I was intrigued by the raw emotion that the candidate’s words inspired in my community. Obama re-visited Oregon during his 2012 campaign, but the inspiration had faded from his voice, and the audience had drastically changed. (text/plain)

Tax Evasion and the Social State Brigitte Unger and Hans-Joachim Schabedoth 2013-03-12 6:11 AM
The good social state invests in the social, in the education of children of the new lower classes... Taxes is the price we pay for a civilized society (Oliver Wendell Holmes).. The state share must increase in a developed society since ever greater demands are made on the state. (text/plain)

Free Internet Book: "Social Democracy After the Cold War" Brian Evans and Ingo Schmidt 2013-02-26 2:44 PM
As a result of the efforts of the “progressive modernizers,” for whom modernization “has too often meant deregulation and privatization,” social democracy is no longer what it used to be, argues Robert Taylor (2008). (text/plain)

The Liberal-Regressive Modern Age Oliver Nachtweg 2013-02-19 4:16 AM
The financial crisis of the states-dramatically intensified by the costs of bailing out the banks-shifts the costs to the broad population without touching the wealth of the economic elites. Political governing is increasingly uncoupled from the approval and influence of citizens. (text/plain)

Reroute It Sudhama Ranganathan 2013-02-06 11:51 AM
There are all manner of things that get done with our tax payer cash. Countless. If we learned of them all just today, most voters would probably demand to elect entirely new representatives from entirely new parties. If the cable news network’s decided each to dedicate a full day to listing all the things they went to, each taking a separate day in successive order, there would be hell to pay. Just think of the things we know about that have had us so upset since 2003. (text/html)

Newspeak Rules: How Neoliberalism Explains the World Sebastian Mueller and Andreas Hellgermann 2013-02-05 4:30 AM
Originally positive terms were devalued in the last decades (social state became "welfare dictatorship") Social dislocations are charged to the impacted themselves. The scandal of poverty mutates to the scandal of the poor themselves. (text/plain)

Responding to financial crisis: are austerity and suffering inevitable? Jayati Ghosh 2013-02-03 3:19 PM
Austerity in a recession is counter-productive. Lower taxes and lower wages mean lower demand, lower GDP, lower state revenue and higher unemployment. (text/plain)

ARTÍCULO 19 de los Derechos Humanos: LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN.- Consuelo Palacios 2013-01-31 9:36 AM
“Toda persona tiene derecho a la libertad de opinión y de expresión; este derecho incluye el de no ser molestado a causa de sus opiniones, el de investigar y recibir informaciones y opiniones, y de difundirlas por cualquier medio de expresión sin limitación de fronteras”. (text/plain)

Erich Fromm on Karl Marx Carla Assmann 2013-01-29 4:07 AM
The capitalist production method makes a few persons absurdly rich while the others hardly have enough to survive. Capitalism also makes people unfree and unhappy because their access to their true needs is blocked. (text/plain)

Free Internet Book: "The Future of the Welfare State," Ireland, 2010 marc 2013-01-16 2:47 PM
Happy Martin Luther King Day! The state has a social nature and can't be only a power and security state. The social state seems to have capsized into the activating or punishing state. Thirty-years of neoliberal restructuring gave every privilege to capital. (text/plain)

Slaverybook of Mark Zuckererg Fábio de Oliveira Ribeiro 2013-01-14 7:36 AM
Things get increasingly dark on the internet. (text/plain)

Egypt’s Revolution Stumbles Mark Vorpahl 2012-12-24 7:18 PM
The call for a new constitution was a key political demand of the Egyptian people when they overthrew the thirty-year dictatorship of Mubarak. Motivating this was the desire to begin dismantling the repressive bureaucratic state machinery they had suffered under and replace it with a democratic government that would be guided by their needs and hopes. Such aspirations served to unite the divergent forces that made Egypt’s political revolution and encourage their grassroots organizing efforts. (text/html)

The Proposed California Homeless Bill of Rights Robert Norse 2012-12-18 11:46 AM
The California Homeless Bill of Rights, modeled after the Rhode Island bill which passed this summer, is being heralded as a strong step towards ending selective enforcement, anti-homeless laws, and institutionalized Hate Crime. (text/plain)

Navigating Egypt’s Revolutionary Crisis Shamus Cooke 2012-12-11 8:44 PM
As chaos again envelopes Egypt, the revolution is evolving in new directions, along contradictory and confusing channels. It’s tempting to immediately support the “opposition” to the Muslim Brotherhood’s apparent “power grab,” but the situation in Egypt is more complex. The recent events in Egypt are not simply signs of a healthy revolution, they include immediate dangers. (text/plain)

Paraphysique du gauchisme Patrice Faubert 2012-12-10 4:33 AM
L'idéologie du gauchisme est le gauchisme de l'idéologie... (text/plain)

Stagnation, not growth, is the norm for mature capitalism Systemic Disorder 2012-12-05 1:11 PM
The dynamics of a mature capitalist economy result in stagnation and financialization, creating deepening inequality. (text/plain)

Reconcile and reduce Joseph Kendzierski 2012-11-26 7:19 AM
Workshop offers in-depth look at federal budget and how to fix it (text/plain + 2 comments)

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