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Tag: Economy

  • Is There a Future for the Left?

    …the Left narrative, no matter how accurate and intellectually powerful it may be, cannot expect to catch the imagination of the citizenry without including a vision for a real alternative future. Moreover, working-class institutions need to be reinstituted for the enhancement of class consciousness and authentic socialist parties need to be rediscovered for the Left […]

  • If I Understand the World, I Can March to Change It

    If I Understand the World, I Can March to Change It

    Students display a butterfly they made at the Madu Adu (science, or ‘let’s do it’) corner. Credit: Photographs and collages by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1945, the newly formed United Nations held a conference to found the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The main concern of the delegates, particularly those who came […]

  • Why Do We Love Consumerism?

    De-linking from the dominant ideological themes of capitalist society is a difficult task. The globalization of capital under the regime of neoliberal deregulation has allowed consumerism to establish a pervasive presence throughout the world. Even if we get to know harrowing information about the inequalities and injustices of the reining consumption model, we don’t enact […]

  • Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites: A Struggle for the Future of Food and Agriculture

    In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatisation of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved. The […]

  • Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions

    The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all? This is a sequel to a January 15 article titled “Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?”, discussing the threat of […]

  • It’s Not Personal… Just Business!

    Just watched a 2020 documentary entitled Dirty Money that covered a slew of scams perpetrated on American consumers. The segment on Scott Tucker really got my goat. Here’s a bit of a background on this character and his disgusting shenanigans: In 1991, Tucker was convicted for his illegal activities, including mail fraud, associated with a […]

  • Singles Project: For the Love of Activism

    Singles Project: For the Love of Activism

    Photo credit: El Payo/Flickr | “All the great movements for social justice in our society have emphasized a love ethic.” – bell hooks Does getting involved in social change work help you meet people, make friends and even find love? And would it matter if it did? If the goal is to grow resilient people-powered […]

  • Americans Deserve Fairer Social Security Taxes

    Social Security has been a financial rock for seniors ever since benefits first began flowing in 1940. For decades though, for those above an income threshold, pieces of that rock have been chiseled away: a 1983 law makes up to 50 percent of benefits subject to federal income taxes. Levying a tax on benefits was […]

  • Zoom or You Won’t See Me!

    If you have a friend or loved one in the Volusia Cty Jail here in the Daytona Beach area of Florida, get ready to play the man’s game of Telephone. Until you have someone close to you incarcerated there you cannot believe how this current penal system works. Bottom line: They forbid any in person […]

  • Russian Economy Growing Faster than Main Western Rivals – Putin

    Russian Economy Growing Faster than Main Western Rivals – Putin

    ©  Sputnik/Evgeny Biyatov The Russian economy keeps growing and has already become the largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), President Vladimir Putin said while speaking at the ‘Everything for Victory’ forum in the city of Tula on Friday. PPP is a metric popular with […]

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