TOO MUCH (Chronicles of Inequality) July 15, 2013
July 15, 2013 THIS WEEK This week’s Too Much flits around the globe, with a quick stop in Switzerland where activists have placed on the ballot an initiative to prevent top corporate execs from making...
View ArticleThe Age of Regression
How We are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced … and What to Do About It by JOHN PILGER London. I have known my postman for more than 20 years. Conscientious and good-humoured, he is the embodiment...
View ArticleTOO MUCH (Annals of Inequality— 19 August 2013)
August 19, 2013 THIS WEEK Just when did modern executive pay start down the road to abominable excess? We now have a much better idea, thanks to Duff McDonald, the author of a new history on the...
View ArticleThe US Banana Republic—the terminus for plutocratic rule
It should be called simply “Life Under US Capitalism.” It so happens the US, the richest and most powerful supernation on earth is now seeing many of its states and municipalities allow their paved...
View ArticleTOO MUCH (Chronicles of Inequality – 21 August 2013)
August 26, 2013 THIS WEEK Several of us who hang out at the Institute for Policy Studies, the 50-year-old Washington, D.C. think-and-act tank that publishes Too Much, co-author the Institute’s annual...
View ArticleDemocrats Fail Labor Again
Labor Leaders, Obamacare, and the Fate of the Unions by SHAMUS COOKE A funny thing happened a couple of months ago: labor leaders finally awoke from their coma and realized that Obamacare was not only...
View ArticleDurban’s Brutal Underside
Courage From Below Ndabo Mzimela picks up the pieces after the eThekwini land invasion unit demolished shacks at Cato Crest at the weekend. Picture: Zanele Zulu There will be blood by RICHARD...
View ArticleTOO MUCH: Chronicles of Inequality (Oct. 14, 2013)
SPECIAL October 14, 2013 THIS WEEK Oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court can be exhilarating affairs. Or dreary ones. Or sometimes even unintentionally revealing.Take last week, for instance,...
View ArticleNo Class Warfare, Please: We’re Americans
FAIR [1] / By Neil deMause [2] The following was originally posted [3] on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting’s website [4]. Check out FAIR for national media criticism and analysis. In a year that...
View ArticlePower Shift in Chile
Four Chilean Student Leaders Make the Jump to Parliament by JONATHAN FRANKLIN Santiago, Chile. Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo. Unapologetically Marxist. Champagne. Cumbia music. Street parties....
View ArticleThe Terrifying Future Envisioned By Libertarians
Ayn Rand: Mother of free-market zealotry Hullabaloo [1] / By David Atkins [2] I‘ve written often before about how much of the war between the American left and right is essentially the building of...
View ArticleMust It Keep Getting Worse?
The New Norm by ANDREW LEVINE It must be hard for people who came of age politically during the past thirty-five years to appreciate how it used to be taken for granted that increasing productivity...
View ArticleMurdoch paper accuses Saudis of 9/11
OPINION Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup By Paul Sperry, The New York Post December 15, 2013 Photo: UPI MORE on SEPTEMBER 11 Negligence not cause of 3rd WTC collapse: court 9/11 cop’s kidney plea Former...
View ArticleThe Developing New American Caste System
By Sam Amer The gap between the rich and poor in America is growing wider and is now almost unbridgeable. We need to act to avoid the many negative consequences. America is believed by the rest of the...
View ArticleWorldwide Inequality
Division and Injustice by GRAHAM PEEBLES Be sure to read a related article on this site, The Plight of the US Working Class. Where and to whom one is born is, it seems, arbitrary, chance, fate or...
View ArticleThe global plutocracy
Editor’s Note: Bill Gates is now absurdly promising to eradicate poverty in two decades. This is typical American evasionism, like US counterinsurgency theories that claim to want to win the hearts...
View ArticleObama Takes on Inequality
But Only the 99 Percent Need to Worry…. by ANDREW LEVINE, Counterpunch Because the level of inequality in the United States is so extreme, because the condition of the “middle class” is...
View ArticleNY Times calls JPMorgan CEO’s pay raise “laudable”
By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, wsws.org Dimon: a perfect example of the 0.0001% sucking the life out the nation and the world. But a media favorite. The New York Times published a commentary last...
View Article“Collective nervous breakdown” rocks Bosnia
By Balkanist On February 8, 2014 Although the populations are still divided and often fight each other on marginal issues, what is clear is that all over the world capitalism does not produce anything...
View ArticleThe Terrifying Future Envisioned By Libertarians
Ayn Rand: Mother of free-market zealotry Hullabaloo [1] / By David Atkins [2] I‘ve written often before about how much of the war between the American left and right is essentially the building of sand...
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