When trying to interpret, understand, and analyze the daily flow of news, I tend to locate what is happening against the background of two distinctive … Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19Read more
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Corporate management doesn’t work for basic public infrastructure like health care
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15o7DsK9PFc&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos cashes in on coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent millions of workers and their families, already scraping to survive, into a financial tailspin from which many will never recover. … Amazon’s Jeff Bezos cashes in on coronavirus pandemicRead more
“Nobody is Above the Law” – Except The “Big Boys”
Law schools should have courses on the expanding immunities of government and corporate officials from criminal prosecution and punishment. Guest lecturers, speaking from their experience, … “Nobody is Above the Law” – Except The “Big Boys”Read more
Billionaires Backed Consortium To Buy U.K. Maker Of Covid Tests For $41 Million
Billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are part of a consortium set to buy Mologic, a U.K.-based maker of Covid tests, in an effort to … Billionaires Backed Consortium To Buy U.K. Maker Of Covid Tests For $41 MillionRead more
The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXURo0FUjM&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Robert Reich
How Corporate Courts Impede Efforts to Battle the Climate Crisis
Any day now, Italy expects to be ordered to hand millions of dollars over to an oil exploration corporation, following the Italian government’s decision to … How Corporate Courts Impede Efforts to Battle the Climate CrisisRead more
The Buying and Selling of Labour Capacity
David Harvey Anti-Capitalist Chronicles [S2 E14] New [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qBATy4yfaw&rel=0&feature=relmfu]
ALEC’s Annual Meeting at Salt Lake City, Utah
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its first post-Trump in-person meeting this week in Salt Lake City, Utah at the five-star Grand America … ALEC’s Annual Meeting at Salt Lake City, UtahRead more
WTO fails anew to agree Covid jab IP waiver proposal
World Trade Organization countries failed anew Tuesday to agree to a proposal to suspend intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines in order to boost production … WTO fails anew to agree Covid jab IP waiver proposalRead more