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Category Archives: culture
Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Two for Tuesday
Killing Joke
Posted in Art, culture, Music Video, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged America, Killing Joke, New Cold War
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US plotting coups in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua?
By Stephen Lendman Source: Intrepid Report The US wants all nations worldwide colonized, their resources looted, their people exploited as serfs, including ordinary Americans. Sovereign independent governments everywhere are targeted for regime change—by coups d’état or wars. That’s what imperialism … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Arab Spring, black ops, Bolivia, Brazil, CIA, Coups, Cuba, Dictatorship, Egypt, empire, geopolitics, Global South, Haiti, Honduras, imperialism, Latin America, Neocons, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Paraguay, Plan Colombia, regime change, South America, State Terror, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, venezuela
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“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”
By Asher Schechter Source: ProMarket Four decades ago, writes Tim Wu in the introduction to his recent book The Curse of Bigness, the United States and other countries entered into a sweeping experiment that radically transformed their economies and politics. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, society
Tagged antitrust, Cartels, Corporate Globalization, economic inequality, Economics, fascism, Free Market, Gilded Age, Louis Brandeis, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu, wall street, Wealth Concentration
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Saturday Matinee: Repo Man
By Alex Cox Source: AlexCoxFilms HOW DID REPO MAN OCCUR? After I left UCLA I was hired to write a script for United Artists about the British World War One deserter and agitator, Percy Topliss. When I delivered the screenplay … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged Alex Cox, Cult film, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael Nesmith, Repo Man
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The Recession Will Be Unevenly Distributed
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Those households, enterprises and organizations that have no debt, a very low cost basis and a highly flexible, adaptable structure will survive and even prosper. The coming recession will be unevenly distributed, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Bureaucracy, Corruption, Debt, Deficit, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Ratchet Effect, recession, Tech Industry
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