UN Releases List Of Companies With Ties To Jewish Settlements By Staff , Telesurenglish.net February 13, 2020 UN Releases List Of Companies With Ties To Jewish Settlements2020-02-132020-02-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/a_worker_carries_boxes_containing_wine_bottles_for_export_at_shiloh_wineriesx_north_of_the_west_bank_city_of_ramallah_november_8x_2015_.jpg_1718483346.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A worker carries boxes containing wine bottles for export at Shiloh Wineries, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah Nov. 8, 2015. | Photo: Reuters Among the companies listed were Airbnb, eDreams, TripAdvisor, and Motorola. The [...]
Capitalism
“Socialism Sucks!” This blatant invective was hurled at me while I stood on a DC metro train reading Richard Wolff’s new book Understanding Socialism. I chuckled a bit, having heard this refrain from InfoWars or Turning Point warriors for years. “I suppose it depends on how you define it…” I began, attempting to use the same argumentative techniques as Wolff does in the pamphlet dangling between [...]
Above Photo: Refinery, Tulare. Jeffrey St. Clair A radical call to action has never been more vital than today, as the abomination of capitalism known as neoliberalism tears apart society from stem to stern, continuing the grand experiment that originated under the watchful eyes and vision of aristocratic plantation-owners like Washington and Jefferson as wealthy patriots. In honor of their hard fought war to avoid taxation as [...]
Authored by Darren Brady Nelson via The Mises Institute, The size and activities of Google, and other Big Tech companies, has increasingly grabbed the attention of many on the ideological left, center, and right. (This is putting to one side the shortcomings of these particular categories.) On the Right, this has meant allegations of Google’s bias against conservatives. In the center, it has included allegations of [...]
Authored by Bill Blain via The Morning Porridge, At the start of a new week we’ve got Coronavirus, Deutsche Bank looking stupid again, Woke Capitalism and why Earnings should scare you… But first… is it Killer Snake or Bat flu? If nothing else, the virus is distracting US viewers from Bolton’s likely damning Trump testimony in the impeachment trial – the fact the US president won’t [...]
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The psychotic instability will resolve itself when the illusory officially sanctioned “capitalism” implodes. Whatever definition of capitalism you use, the current system isn’t it so let’s call it “capitalism” in quotes to indicate it’s called “capitalism” but isn’t actually classical capitalism. Try a few conventional definitions on for size: Capitalism allocates capital to its most productive uses. Does the current [...]
A Community Fights The County To Show Black Ancestor’s Lives Matter By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. January 22, 2020 A Community Fights The County To Show Black Ancestor’s Lives Matter2020-01-222020-01-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/siaau7hseui6nh5rfwht7soa5u-e1579659451850.jpg200px200px Above photo: Harvey Matthews addresses the crowd as they stand on the parking lot that covers the Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. From the Bethesda African Cemetery Website. Clearing the FOG co-hosts [...]
Global Poll Finds Majority Believe Capitalism More Harmful Than Good By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams. January 21, 2020 Global Poll Finds Majority Believe Capitalism More Harmful Than Good2020-01-212020-01-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/capitalism-harm-good.jpeg200px200px Above photo: According to a new global survey, 56 percent of respondents agreed with the statement, “Capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world.” Jonny White/cc/flickr. The majority also said they believe they won’t be better [...]
Zachary Leeman is the author of the novel Nigh and journalist who covers art and culture. It appears actor John Cusack took the climate change messages in his film ‘2012’ really, really seriously, because he says Earth only has a handful of years left — unless Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is elected US President. Introducing Sanders in Exeter, New Hampshire, on Saturday, the 53-year-old actor threw out a [...]
Authored by Jon Hellevig via The Saker Blog, There is no hiding anymore, the United States has become an oligarch owned banana republic with nukes, and with a monopoly currency which has allowed it to rig the markets for half a century. But now we are only a couple of hours from curtain – Midnight in America. With the stock market at all-time highs, virtually no [...]
Authored by Shoshanna Zuboff via Project Syndicate, Over the past two decades, an entirely new economic model has taken hold, seemingly right under our noses. Whereas the Internet and digital technologies once promised to liberate humanity through disintermediation and shared connections, now they have been turned into tools for behavioral manipulation and exploitation. As we enter a new decade, we are also entering a new era [...]
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What are the internal contradictions that could unravel capitalism from within? One of the core tenets of Marx’s work is that capitalism will be undone by internal contradictions that would manifest as ever-greater crises that would eventually destroy the system from within. As the global economy continues to unravel beneath the surface, it’s a good time to re-examine Marx’s claim. [...]