Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher

How the West eats its children

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Thierry Meyssan Source: VoltaireNet.org The cause of Western recession International relations experienced a profound change with the paralysis of the Soviet Union in 1986, when the State was unable to control the civilian nuclear incident in Tchernobyl [1], then with … Continue reading →

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Time to Wake Up: the Neoliberal Order is Dying

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Jonathan Cook Source: CounterPunch In my recent essay, I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives – supporting what we might loosely term our current “neoliberal order” – rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political … Continue reading →

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Gaius Publius: Defining Neoliberalism

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Yves Smith Source: Naked Capitalism For years I’ve been using the term “neoliberalism” (or sometimes neo-liberalism*) and I’m always uncomfortable, since it sounds so academic. So I usually add one-phrase definitions and move on. For example, this from a … Continue reading →

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Right to Burn

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Luther Blissett

Free-market economics gives the poor equal rights to substandard housing  By Siddhartha Deb Source: The Baffler At the very end of the film High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s 2015 adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel from the seventies, we hear a familiar authoritarian … Continue reading →

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