Capitalism

12/04/22
Author: 
Jessica Corbett
Medical staff treat a patient suffering from Covid-19 in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on October 31, 2020 in Houston, Texas. (Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

Apr. 8, 2022

Just over a month into year three of the Covid-19 pandemic, research revealed Thursday that life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2021—which followed a well-documented drop in 2020 and contrasted a recovery trend in other high-income countries.

08/04/22
Author: 
Sarah Lazare, In These Times
Amazon workers celebrate following the April 1, 2022, vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York. Andrea Renault / AFP Via Getty Images.

Editor: Great details here on this historic win.

Apr. 5, 2022

07/04/22
Author: 
Ellen Brown, Scheer Post.

Apr. 5, 2022

Russia Is Following The American Playbook.

No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean?

07/04/22
Author: 
Sonali Kolhatkar
Housing For People Not Profit

Editor: This article is of course relevant to Canada although it specifically talks of the situation in the US.

April 7, 2022  

Is housing a human right? Or is it a privilege affordable only to those who have made it under our unfair system of market capitalism?

04/04/22
Author: 
Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture.
Photo: Dado Ruvic / Reuters. - money

Apr, 1, 2022

A New Reality Is Being Formed.

The unipolar world is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past, a multipolar one is taking shape.

It was something to behold. Dmitri Medvedev, former Russian President, unrepentant Atlanticist, current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, decided to go totally unplugged in an outburst matching the combat star turn of Mr. Khinzal that delivered palpable shock and awe all across NATOstan.

04/04/22
Author: 
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Almagul Menlibayeva (Kazakhstan), Transoxiana Dreams, 2010.

Apr. 1, 2022

30/03/22
Author: 
Jeremy Lent
Teaser Photo by Dimitry Anikin on Unsplash

Mar. 29, 2022

The neoliberal ideology of unrestrained markets has led to a global crisis. Humanity now faces an existential threat as the result of global dominance by corporations, whose ultimate goal is at odds with human flourishing.


Originally published March 14, 2022 in Inside Over as “The world on the brink of the abyss. Looking at the real danger.”

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