Anarcho-Capitalism: Jeff Bewick interviews Lew Rockwell. 3 Things That Must Happen for Us To Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy. August 25, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy. Transforming the United States into something closer to a democracy requires: 1) knowledge of how we are getting screwed; 2) pragmatic tactics, strategies, and solutions; and 3) the “energy to do battle.”
The majority of Americans oppose the corporatocracy (rule by giant corporations, the extremely wealthy elite, and corporate-collaborator government officials); however, many of us have given up hope that this tyranny can be defeated. Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say "No" to Corporations? August 24, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The 5 Most Horrifying Things Corporations Are Taking Over. Does Capitalism Make Us More Materialistic? - Ben O'Neill. Anti-capitalism protests strike chord. NEW YORK – New York’s budding anti-capitalism protest movement began last month with a vague sense of grievance over the widening gap between the rich and poor in America.
But in three weeks, it has provided fuel for a broader national anti-corporate message, drawing inspiration from the Arab Spring but struggling to define its goals beyond a general feeling that power needs to be restored to ordinary people. Now similar protests are springing up elsewhere; organizers in Washington, D.C., plan a march Thursday to “denounce the systems and institutions that support endless war and unrestrained corporate greed.” Despite having no single leader and no organized agenda, the protesters insist they are on the verge of translating their broad expression of grievance into a durable national cause. Brought together by social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, participants hope the New York protests can plant the seeds of a permanent national movement.
One Third of Americans One Paycheck Away From Homelessness. This stunning factoid was reported in DS News last week and appears not to have gotten the attention it deserves.
A mid-September survey ascertained that a full one third of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck, and if they lost their job, they would not be able to make their next rent or mortgage payment. And the article stresses this was not a function of being in or near the poverty line (hat tip reader May S): Despite being more affluent, the poll found that even those with higher annual household incomes indicate they are not guaranteed to make their next housing payment if they lost their source of income.Ten percent of survey respondents earning $100K or more a year say they would immediately miss a payment….Sixty-one percent of those surveyed said if they were handed a pink slip, they would not be able to continue to make their mortgage or rent payment longer than five months. We've socialized losses and privatized gains. - storify.com. Whither Capital Markets? » ThickCulture.
By Kenneth M.
Kambara, Aug 5, 2011, at 05:14 am. Thewherefores: Capitalism in a simple graphic:... Capitalism’s golden age v a lost 30 years – great infographic. Jonathan Langdale - Google+ - Capitalism will not last ♻:… Francis Fukuyama: How Capitalism Survived the Crisis. Crack Capitalism. How Investing in Corporate Banks Corrodes the Soul. Toward a New Stage of Capitalism. The Empire of Lies. Eight years on, we now have the proof that the US preemptive war on Iraq was based on lies.
An Iraqi exile, Rafid al-Janabi, codenamed “Curveball” by the CIA, has revealed that he fabricated the story of Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction” back in 2000, shortly after his arrival in Germany seeking asylum. He told the UK’s Guardian that he had lied to German intelligence in the hope his testimony might help topple Saddam, though it seems more likely he simply wanted to ensure his asylum case was taken more seriously. For the careful reader – and I stress the word careful – several disturbing facts emerged from the Guardian’s report.
One was that the German authorities had quickly proven his account of Iraq’s WMD to be false. Both German and British intelligence had traveled to Dubai to meet Bassil Latif, his former boss at Iraq’s Military Industries Commission. The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism. John Bellamy Foster (jfoster [at] monthlyreview.org) is editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author (with Brett Clark and Richard York) of The Ecological Rift (Monthly Review Press, 2010).
Robert W. McChesney (rwmcches [at] uiuc.edu) is Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and author of The Political Economy of Media (Monthly Review Press, 2008) and (with John Nichols) The Death and Life of American Journalism (2010). The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the information age. The past generation has seen a blizzard of mind-boggling developments in communication, ranging from the World Wide Web and broadband, to ubiquitous cell phones that are quickly becoming high-powered wireless computers in their own right.