Capitalism – Page 76

99% of People in Poor Countries Are Unvaccinated

As of June 21, 2021, 10.04% of the global population had been fully vaccinated, nearly all of them in rich countries. Only 0.9% of people … 99% of People in Poor Countries Are UnvaccinatedRead more

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that approximately 19 percent more Americans died in 2020 than in 2019. … Young Americans are dying at rates not seen since 1953Read more

The most basic tenet undergirding neoliberal economics is that free market capitalism—or at least some close approximation to it—is the only effective framework for delivering … Neoliberalism Has Depended on Huge Levels of Government Support for Its Entire ExistenceRead more

[tweet 1410300881761882112] unearthed.greenpeace.org [this explains our democracies too. “but still i believe my boss!”]

The close collaboration between the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the multi-billion dollar asset management firm Blackrock in devising the March 2020 rescue operation … World’s largest asset management firm and Fed’s Wall Street bailoutRead more

Policymakers and the media are paying too much attention to how quickly the U.S. economy will emerge from the pandemic-induced recession, and not nearly enough … Why So Much Wealth at the Top Threatens the US EconomyRead more

Juneteenth marks the date in 1865 where an estimated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were freed, marking the official end of slavery in the Confederacy … American companies are still profiting from slaveryRead more

The growing concentration of wealth in fewer hands—including among corporate robber barons’ descendants who continue, after multiple generations, to wield the “financial, political, and philanthropic … Wealth Hoarding by ‘Silver Spoon Oligarchs’ Is Endangering U.S. DemocracyRead more

Human rights advocates Thursday denounced a Supreme Court decision in favor of the U.S. corporate giants Nestlé USA and Cargill, which were sued more than … US High Court Sides With Corporate Giants in Child Slavery CaseRead more

Strategy and dogma To declare the abolition of traditional slavery for their possessions in the Caribbean, the British envisioned a new type of enslavement that … Consumerism, Another Inheritance From the Slavery SystemRead more