By Henry A. Giroux.. Article cross-published with TruthOut [Photo:Protesters march in the Loop March 27, 2013 during a rally to protest the proposed closing of 54 Chicago public schools. (Photo: WBEZ/Robin Amer)] Across the globe, predatory capitalism spreads its gospel of power, greed, commodification, gentrification and inequality. Through the combined forces of a market driven [...]
By Tom Burghardt – Antifascist Calling… While Barack Obama’s “favorite banker” continues to receive the royal treatment in Washington, new sleaze allegations threaten to further tarnish the golden boy image of “teflon don” Jamie Dimon, the CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. Wearing multiple hats, Dimon is the Chairman of The Business Council, a long-time [...]
By William Blum This is not to put George W. Bush down. That’s too easy, and I’ve done it many times. No, this is to counter the current trend to rehabilitate the man and his Iraqi horror show, which partly coincides with the opening of his presidential library in Texas. At the dedication ceremony, President [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… Paraguay’s April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy “tobacco magnate,” rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of “state capture” by powerful drug cartels linked to US intelligence agencies. Did you like this? Share [...]
By David Swanson. Originally published at War is a Crime (9/13/10). Robert Scheer’s new book “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street,” is not yet another account of how we got robbed or “why the economy imploded for dummies.” If you’re like me, you just [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… In October 2005, at the height of the speculative financial bubble that eventually cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and devastated millions of lives, Citigroup Equity Strategy analysts Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod and Narendra Singh published their provocative, though accurate portrayal of bourgeois amorality, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances. [...]
By Gary Corseri and Charles Orloski About 4 months ago, poet and commentator Charles Orloski and I posted some of our e-mail exchanges in an article we called Poets Talk. At that time, we had been exchanging e-mails for a little more than a year, and had expanded our initial musings about the state of [...]