Neoliberalism

By Charlie Simmons | – ( Otherwords.org) – Last year, the biggest fossil fuel companies paid zero dollars in taxes — and actually received billions in rebates. By Charlie Simmons | October 16, 2019 Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who sparked student protests across the globe, had this to tell the UN General […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s Dismantling of our Government: Deregulating our Way to Disaster

John Buell

(Informed Comment) – While Trump’s xenophobic and protectionist agenda, thankfully often blocked by the courts, has received the lion’s share of media attention, his henchmen have enacted a whole series of game changing initiatives in the area of federal regulation. Deregulating such domestic concerns as transportation, occupational health and safety, the environment is hardly new. […]

Neoliberalism

How Neoliberalism & Privatization are Driving our Crises, from Guatemala to Moscow

John Buell

To the corporate media, history goes back only as far as yesterday. Thus the media portray the chaos and violence in Central America as though this is just a case of stuff happens. Or all of a sudden millions decided to come north in search of a better life. And these exculpatory views survived even […]

Neoliberalism

“Free” Markets and the Attack on Democracy

John Buell

The neoliberal deification of markets has many parents.

Inequality

Why has the GOP grown the Military-Industrial Complex but slashed Human Security?

H. Patricia Hynes

The US has the highest rate of maternal deaths of any industrial country & we are the “child poverty capital”

Employment

Tunisia: Austerity Protests roil Birthplace of Arab Spring

contributors

TeleSur | – – Protests have been taking place across the North African country over the past several nights in protest against government austerity measures at the behest of the IMF. At least one person is dead and 200 people have been arrested during several nights of protests in Tunisia, according to The Guardian. Protests […]

Inequality

Will Americans finally start fighting back against tax cuts for the rich?

contributors

Stephanie Leiser | (The Conversation) | – – The 60 percent of Americans who believe that the GOP tax package will mostly help the wealthiest among us are right, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center. But will widespread disapproval translate into political costs or electoral losses for Republicans? Will Americans decide they […]

Donald Trump

Congress’ Tax Plan is a give-way to the Rich, not a Reform

Juan Cole

True tax reform would help working and middle classes

Acidification of Oceans

It’s up to You: Corporations won’t save us from Global Heating

contributors

Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg | (The Conversation) | – – While businesses have been principal agents in increasing greenhouse gas emissions, they are also seen by many as crucial to tackling climate change. However, our research shows how corporations’ ambitious pro-climate proposals are systematically degraded by criticism from shareholders, media, governments, other corporations and […]