The United States is a particularly hostile environment for parenting. Workers face long hours, inadequate pay, unreliable health care, overpriced housing, paltry unpaid leave, and … Why Capitalists Care About Our Record-Low Birth RateRead more
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School Grades as Capitalist Control
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Escaping the Western Rentier
It is impossible to track the geoeconomic turbulence inherent to the “birth pangs” of the multipolar world without the insights of Professor Michael Hudson at … Escaping the Western RentierRead more
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Jackson, Mississippi’s water disaster is a crime of capitalism
The 150,000 residents of Jackson, Mississippi remain without access to clean drinking water this week following the collapse of the water and sewage system under … Jackson, Mississippi’s water disaster is a crime of capitalismRead more
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Inside The Right’s Historic Billion-Dollar Dark Money Transfer
An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and … Inside The Right’s Historic Billion-Dollar Dark Money TransferRead more
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Grades Are Capitalism in Action
The capitalist economic system has major failures. It generates extreme, socially divisive inequalities of wealth and income. It consistently fails to achieve full employment. Many … Grades Are Capitalism in ActionRead more
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Case Against Smithfield Foods
It used to be that America’s hogs were produced on small farms – with anywhere from a couple of dozen hogs to a couple of … Case Against Smithfield FoodsRead more
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How a Soviet Miner From the 1930s Helped Create Today’s Corporate Workplace Culture
One summer night in August 1935, a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov managed to extract 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift. This … How a Soviet Miner From the 1930s Helped Create Today’s Corporate Workplace CultureRead more
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“United States” to Imperial America
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df4R-xdKvpM&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Daniel Immerwahr “United States” to Imperial America: Our Hidden Empire How to hide an empire. Empire Files