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Danes
claim truly about their country where “few have too much and fewer still too
little.” There are many capitalisms,
and the
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& 8 at end
Contents #9 Nov. 12, 2012
Hedrick
Smith, Who Stole the American Dream?
To
Schneiderman: Prosecute or Resign
Taibbi,
Why Government Doesn’t
Barofsky, Bailout on TARP
Nader:
Where Were the Whistleblowers?
Freeland, Plutocrats
Reich,
Book on US Capitalism
Reich,
Interviewed About US Capitalism
Survey: Confidence in Capitalism Declines
Wolf: Global Financial Fraud
Looking
Back at Capitalist Greed, PBS: Remember
the Triangle Fire
Contents #10
Ha-Joon
Chang, About Capitalism
Gibney
Video:
Hacker and
Pierson: Winner-Take-All Politics
Bybee, War
on Wages
Foster and
McChesney, Monopoly-Finance Capital
Pollin,
Full Employment
Wenz,
Progressive Taxation
Mondiot,
Unregulated Capitalism and Climate Change
Williams,
Socialism
Contents #11
Taibbi,
Lies about Bailout
Ad Busters
on US Capitalism
Ad Busters
on Canadian Capitalism
Moyers Co. Programs
Richard
Wolff’s Books
Jim
Wallis, Serving the Common Good
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liabilities of US
Matt Taibbi | Secret and Lies of the Bailout
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, RSN, January 5, 2013
Taibbi writes: "Not only did the bailout prevent another
Great Depression, we've been told, but the money has all been paid back, and
the government even made a profit. No harm, no foul - right? Wrong."
READ
MORE http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15395-secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout
CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Can America
By Adbusters 16 February
13
The Biggest Climate campaign in History eclipses the
elephant in the room.
he Sierra Club, Bill Mckibben's 350.org fight-climate-change crew, 130 other
organizations, plus thousands of Americans from all walks are meeting at Noon
on Sunday, February 17 in
Their first goal is to convince Obama to reject the Keystone XL
tar sands pipeline once and for all, for it could unlock vast amounts of
additional carbon the planet simply cannot afford to burn. But his final
decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will only be a test of whether
he's truly serious about walking his talk. The Forward on Climate Rally will put unparalleled pressure on
Obama to act on his word, and in an unprecedented way. It is their hope that he
will do all in his power to face, and combat, global warming.
But before
Meanwhile, record droughts, food scarcity, floods, severe
super-storms, billions in damage, lives lost, and the hottest year on record in
the
But
The president spoke somberly about climate change for half an
hour this Tuesday during his State of
the Union speech, earning him brownie points with some, but the eloquence
of his promises have never been something to be contested. Despite his
rhetoric, and avowal to address global warming and not betray future
generations, he fails to face the
elephant in the room. With less than five percent of the world's population, it
is the
And
yet on an even deeper level, Obama's invocation of the need for
"sustainable energy sources" suggests that he believes fossil fuels
themselves are to blame. And perhaps he's not at fault. This is what most
people believe. But what about the root of our climatic, environmental problem:
the exploitative economic paradigm we operate, the political stagnation that
goes with that, the social inequalities we are forced to endure, the cult of
hyper-consumption that defines American culture - it is this systemic
destructiveness that endorses ravenous fossil fuel use in the first place.
Until Obama, and the activists putting pressure on him, stop
confounding the symptoms with the disease, there will be a stark limit to how
effective, enduring and powerful a revolutionary movement can be.
US/CANADIAN
CAPITALISM
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From: larry Hicks <curmujeon@yahoo.com>
[I say
https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/why-nothing-sticks-harper.html
This is why nothing sticks to Harper
Thanks to a hyperactive press, the energy baron agenda continues
unabated. It’s a dangerous endgame indeed. You’ve heard the buzzwords involved
– Enbridge, tar sands, Keystone XL – but maybe only as a jumble, a sick
constellation no news official connects the dots to. And such is the
consequence of a “watchdog” news industry with no teeth. We’re forced to
connect the dots ourselves.
Meanwhile, the State facilitates the madness of capital as the
west coast hangs in the balance. Again, the mainstream news cycle misses the
gravity of what’s really in store for
Corporate collusion equals dying ecosystem. There’s no way
around it. Economists can muster all the apologias they want, but such is
reality. Now we’re at a tipping point for environmental health. But the
direness, the desperation needed to explain the situation is lamentably not
found in the paper.
If you question whether the conditions are desperate, go to where the rubber
meets the road, in Kitimat, say, or northern Alberta – where machines the size
of McMansions gut the earth for sludge, blast it with superheated water, and
send it west as a ware for China. As an added irony, tanker traffic must
traverse the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in order to reach foreign markets. Ships transporting fossil fuel are
forced to sail through trash – if it weren’t so deplorable, it’d almost be
funny. But such is the
Where is the analysis of this? The urgency? It’s relatively
stunted within public discourse. Harper remains largely unscathed by the media,
and he relies on tricks and alternative communications to reach supporters. The 24-hour news cycle does some of
the work for him. In a general ethos of collective forgetfulness, the cycle
moves quickly from one story to the next, leaving environmental atrocities to
slip through the cracks. Moreover, Harper capitalizes off of local news
outlets, which are sycophantic and more willing to toe his line without
checking the facts. Through these machinations he is able to spin the stories
regarding tankers, pipelines, energy company excess, and for that matter,
Afghan detainees and threats to Net Neutrality too.
Standing up to the massive energy enterprise are Defend Our
Coast, the Dogwood Initiative, ForestEthics, and West Coast Environmental Law –
all orgs that represent the best line of defense against ecocide, against
Boreal Forest shredding and
It's up to us all to keep the pressure on the State even when
the media won’t.
Dugan Nichols is a Ph.D. student interested in cultural theory,
race, neo-Marxism, and the way capitalism makes the upside-down world we live
in seem natural – or the only way things can be. He's from
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MOYERS & CO.
INTERVIEWS
In this
and in his earlier PBS programs (NOW, Bill Moyers’ Journal), Moyers has
interviewed many knowledgeable people about the vagaries and corruptions of
Feb. 16, 2012, Bruce Bartlett and
Yves Smith on the
economy. Asked what they would do about
the "fiscal cliff," both
recommended diving, that it would be better for
people (enormous cut in military budget, for example).
Discussion of revolving door in Congress, a mechanism of corporate power (Liz
Fowler as a notorious example), and Obama's broken promises about constraining
it.
|
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Full Show: Who’s Widening America’s
Digital Divide?
February 8, 2013 |
Internet
scholar Susan Crawford explains how media conglomerates put profit ahead of
the public interest, and author Nick
Turse shares what we never knew about the Vietnam War (wars symptomatic of
RICHARD WOLFF’S BOOKS
Professor Richard D. Wolff
· Marxism
Books
Democracy
at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
A new historical
vista is opening before us in this time of change, Wolff writes in this
compelling new manifesto for a democratic alternative based on workers
directing their own workplaces.
|
Publisher: Haymarket Books |
|
Publication Date May 2012 |
|
List Price $17.00 |
Occupy
the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since
the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while
those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline. As more
and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make the very
wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard
Wolff, David Barsamian probes the root causes of the current economic crisis,
its unjust social consequences and what can and should be done to turn things
around.
While others blame corrupt bankers and
unregulated speculators or the government or even the poor who borrowed, the
authors show that the causes of the crisis run much deeper.
Contending Economic Theories: neoclassical, keynesian, and marxian
Contending Economic Theories offers a
unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in eco- nomics as it is
taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and
discussed in its own chapter, yet also differentiated from and compared to the
other two theories. The authors identify each theory’s starting point, its
goals and foci, and its internal logic.
State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social
Change
Vincent Kelly Pollard (Editor)
State capitalism is back. It never
went away. This book looks at the role of state capitalism in major European
and Asian societies. It confronts neo-liberal pieties about the role of markets
and private property in capitalist development and radical accounts which see
the state as the antithesis of capitalism. State capitalism is a normal form of
capitalist development. Its extremes may vary but it has been, and remains,
central to an understanding of modern capitalism. This is especially the case
in the so called Communist and Communist worlds of
Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to
Do About It
Capitalism Hits the Fan chronicles one economist’s growing
alarm and insights as he watched, from 2005 onwards, the economic crisis build,
burst, and then dominate world events. The argument here differs sharply from
most other explanations offered by politicians, media commentators, and other
academics. Step by step, Professor Wolff shows that deep economic structures—the
relationship of wages to profits, of workers to boards of directors, and of
debts to income—account for the crisis. The great change in the
Class Struggle on the Homefront
Home Front examines the gendered
exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective.
The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic
theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power,
domination, and exploitation in the modern household.
Rethinking Marxism
This festschrift volume
honors the works of Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy. An introductory essay by the
editors examines the evolution of their contributions to Marxian theory and
analysis. A bibliography provides the most complete listing of their work to
the point of publication. Internationally renowned Marxist scholars (including
Ernest Mandel, Charles Bettelheim, Immanuel Wallerstein and many others)
contributed original essays in fitting tribute to the importance of the honorees'
works.
Bringing It All Back Home
Bringing It All Back Home uses the intimate arena of the
household as the novel setting for a groundbreaking study of the relationships
between class, gender and power today. The authors - and the feminist scholars
who offered responses to their critique - integrate the rich traditions of
Marxism and feminism, and more recent developments in Marxian theory and
Lacanian psychoanalysis, to theorise a new approach to the contemporary crisis
of the family. They offer an innovative reading of the relationship between
class and gender, in which the household itself can be seen as the site of
conflict and of profound transformation. In the process, they suggest a new
range of possibilities for thinking about and understanding the complexity of human
existence.
Class and Its Others
While references to gender, race and class are everywhere in
social theory, class has not received the kind of theoretical and empirical
attention accorded to gender and race. A welcome and much-needed corrective,
this book offers a novel theoretical approach to class and an active practice
of class analysis.
The authors offer new and compelling ways to look at class through
examinations of such topics as sex work, the experiences of African American
women as domestic laborers, and blue- and white-collar workers. Their work
acknowledges that individuals may participate in various class relations at one
moment or over time and that class identities are multiple and changing,
interacting with other aspects of identity in contingent and unpredictable
ways.
A new book from Jim Wallis!
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