Tag: Free trade

  • Talking Genocide and How the World is Moving (Bulldozing Palestinians) Forward

    Talking Genocide and How the World is Moving (Bulldozing Palestinians) Forward

    Listen to my Interview of Syrian Laif Marouf, who is now in Lebanon.     The American right has descended into a bitter dispute over U.S. support for Israel. Does this dispute pose an existential threat to Israel? —  Dimitri Lascaris Nope. What does the AmeriKKKan right stand for, really? For Palestine? For Hamas? Do […]

  • The Retreat of Free Trade

    Free markets?  Free trade?  The modern economic world has little time for these erroneous, misdirected terms.  More evident are the feelings of resentment, prejudice and indignant parochialism more accurately called My Country First, and Everyone Else Last.  Back your industries; hobble the competitors.  And everyone is doing it, except certain ideologues who, childishly, cling to […]

  • The Cycles and Spirals of Capitalism

    The Cycles and Spirals of Capitalism

    Orientation How long has capitalism existed? Has it always been with us all the way back to tribal societies or is it a product of the modern age? Is there any pattern to its evolution? Is it cyclic,  spiral-like  or random? What is the nature of capitalist crises? Why does capitalism grow flush in certain […]

  • “Free Trade” as Revealed in the China-United States Paradigm

    “Free Trade” as Revealed in the China-United States Paradigm

    Free trade is much ballyhooed by the US and the capitalist world, but critics have been skeptical as to whether such trade freely takes place. Investopedia provides a useful definition of free trade: A free trade agreement is a pact between two or more nations to reduce barriers to imports and exports among them. Under […]

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