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Monthly Archives: February 2015
On a fast track to the bottom
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive new trade pact that is being pushed by the Obama Administration at the behest of multi-national corporations. The TPP is fundamentally undemocratic and horrible for most Americans where it counts–in their pocketbook. Contrary to the … Continue reading
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Tagged fast track, free trade, Karl Polanyi, neoliberal, The Great Transformation, TPP
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“Corporations are people, my friend,”
Political/economy is who gets what, and who pays the price. We forget this adage at our own peril. The wealthy and the corporations they own have captured our government and are imposing on us the policies that benefit them. Contrary … Continue reading
Back to the Future
Ideologies that serve elite interests never really go away, they just reconstitute in new guises. In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, author David Harvey argues provocatively that neoliberalism is a continuation of early capitalism, whereby modern corporations are busy re-privitizing … Continue reading
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Tagged A Brief History of Neoliberalism, A Peoples History of the United States, David Harvey, forth factor of production, Howard Zinn, Michael Perelman, Mike Lofgren, Nixonland, rent seeking, Rick Perlstein, Simon Patten, The Invention of Capitalism, The Party's Over
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