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Tag Archives: Labor
What’s Wrong with the Economy: 9 Toxic Dynamics
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged Asset Bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economic Growth, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Financialization, Fossil Fuels, Globalization, income gap, Labor, Over-speculation, Stock Market, technology, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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America is Disneyland
By Chris Kanthan Source: Activist Post Disneyland is the Happiest Place on Earth! Millions of families visit the theme park every year to enjoy the magical place of rides, spectacular shows and cheerful cartoon figures. Everything is clean, perfect and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged America, china, Corporate Greed, Corporations, corporatocracy, Disneyland, Economic Disparity, Economics, elites, Homelessness, Income Inequality, Labor, Neo Feudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, unemployment, United States, US Economy, wall street, Wealth Gap
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US Technological Transformations and the Narcotic-Fueled Genocide of American Workers
By James Petras Source: The Unz Review Introduction During his recent visit to New Hampshire on 3/20/18, President Trump declared once again that the US is facing a ‘drug epidemic’. This time he advocated the death penalty for criminal drug … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, DEA, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, drug war, Economics, elites, Employment, FDA, Genocide, Labor, Lobbyists, NAFTA, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Plutocracy, Population Control, society
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The US Middle Class is Shrinking and Moving Towards a “Dual Economy”
MIT Economist Peter Temin, the author of “The Vanishing Middle Class,” explains how the US is moving towards two economies, one for the lower 80% and one for the upper 20% By Gregory Wilpert and Peter Temin Source: Real News … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Dystopia, education, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, police state, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Campaign Financing, College, Debt, Dual Economy, Economics, Elections, financial crisis, Infrastructure, Labor, Mass Incarceration, Middle Class, Peter Temin, Pew Research Center, Prisons, Public Education, Student Loans, The Vanishing Middle Class, Tuition, Voters, Work
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To Liberate Cambodia
By Robert J. Burrowes A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, History, imperialism, Labor, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged activism, Cambodia, Dictatorship, Economics, Hun Sen, imperialism, Khmer, Labor, Nonviolence, politics, protest, war, Worker's Rights
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Zucktown, USA
Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age By Julianne Tveten Source: The Baffler EARLIER THIS YEAR IN SILICON VALLEY, a phalanx of six-figure-earning Facebook engineers confronted Mark Zuckerberg about subsidizing their extortionate rents. Meanwhile, the contract … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon Google, big data, Company Towns, Dystopia, Facebook, Housing, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Mark Zuckerberg, Oligarchy, panopticon, Plutocracy, Tech Industry, Technocracy
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The Seeds of Anti-Capitalist Revolt Found in Everyday Resistance: A Review of Guerrillas of Desire – Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter (AK Press, 2017)
By Scott Campbell Source: Institute for Anarchist Studies Back when I first began selling my labor for a wage in the wasteland of suburbia’s strip malls, I can recall the tedium of stocking shelves, summoning up insincere courtesy in the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Labor, Philosophy, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Anarchism, capitalism, culture, Economics, Guerrillas of Desire, Labor, Marxism, Radicals, resistance, Revolution, Social Organization, society, Work, Working Class, Zapatistas
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Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
By Adam Johnson Source: FAIR You’ve seen or heard or read the personal interest story a thousand times: An enterprising seven-year-old collects cans to save for college (ABC7, 2/8/17), a man with unmatched moxie walks 15 miles to his job (Today, 2/20/17), … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged conditioning, corporate media, corporate news, economic crisis, Economics, economy, healthcare, healthcare system, Labor, Mainstream Media, media, Poverty, propaganda, recession, social control, Systemic Problems, Work
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