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Category Archives: Privatization
Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good
By Dirk Philipsen Source: aeon Adam Smith had an elegant idea when addressing the notorious difficulty that humans face in trying to be smart, efficient and moral. In The Wealth of Nations (1776), he maintained that the baker bakes bread … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Privatization, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Corporations, corporatocracy, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Free Market, Freedom, Late Stage Capitalism, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philosophy, Public Health
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Of Course Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
By HipCrime Vocab There’s apparently a row over whether billionaires should exist. That is, whether or not billionaires should be a thing in our society. What a stupid question. Of course billionaires shouldn’t exist! But the reason has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Amazon, Aristocracy, Bill Gates, Billionaires, capitalism, Classical Liberals, economic inequality, Economics, Great Britain, John D. Rockefeller, Libertarianism, market failure, Matt Stoller, Millionaires, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, technology, Wealth Concentration
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Bezos Reveals His Ugly Vision For The World He’s Trying To Rule
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com “Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?” asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program. “It’s easy to know the answer to that question,” … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon, Corporate Crime, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, Ecosystem, elites, environment, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Plutocrats, political corruption, Silicon Valley, society, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism, Wealth Concentration
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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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Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
By Alan Mcleod Source: FAIR Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda organizations founded and funded by the US government: the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, Privatization, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Atlantic Council, Brazil, censorship, Corporate Censorship, Cuba, empire, Facebook, Fake News, geopolitics, Government Censorship, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, International Republican Institute, IRI, Israel, Madeleine Albright, National Democratic Institute, NATO, NDI, Nicaragua, Palestine, propaganda, Sen. John McCain, Social Media, venezuela
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For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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Neo-Liberalism and the Retreat of Democracy
By David Schultz Source: CounterPunch Democracy across the world is under siege. This according to the latest Freedom House report documenting that for 2017, “democracy faced its most serous crisis in decades” as seventy-one countries experienced declines in freedom or … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Privatization, society
Tagged austerity, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, Free Trade, Freedom House, Neoliberalism, Working Class
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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better
By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Bill Gates, charter schools, Common Core, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, No Child Left Behind, Pedagogy, Poverty, privatization
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