Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who… Read More ›
Economic Exploitation
Myths About Socialism: Redistribution of Wealth?
Probably one of the most common right-wing arguments against social welfare spending is that it constitutes “redistribution of wealth” or “sharing the wealth,” and is thus a road to socialism. Indeed, “socialism” is often defined by these reactionaries as the… Read More ›
Western Companies See Prospects for Business in Libya
WASHINGTON — The guns in Libya have barely quieted, and NATO’s military assistance to the rebellion that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi will not end officially until Monday. But a new invasion force is already plotting its own landing on the… Read More ›
Clinton Vows Millions in Funding for New Libyan Regime
Officials Put Overall Figure Since February to $135 Million Arriving in Tripoli today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised an additional $11 million in US aid to fund the National Transitional Council (NTC) as it moves to establish itself as… Read More ›
It’s Not “Corporatism,” It’s Not “Crony Capitalism,” It’s Capitalism!
Chances are if you are reading this, you have spent a fair amount of time discussing the recent “Occupation” demonstrations which have sprung up all around the country. Anyone with a basic familiarity with the protests is aware that the… Read More ›
Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global: Protests & Clashes in Rome
Riot police have fought militant protesters in Rome as the biggest of a series of global rallies against banks and politicians tipped into violence. At least 70 people were injured, three of them seriously, as police fought masked rioters with… Read More ›
Statement from an Occupy Raleigh Participant
Something for nothing? The corporate media owned by the 1% are saying that we the people of Occupy Raleigh want something for nothing. Something for nothing? We are the 99%. We clean the toilets. We dig the coal. We pick… Read More ›
Review of Sun Rise Above’s “MF Life”
This mix-tape by Sun Rise Above with beats by MF DOOM is overall a very good album. It is short, precise, and of great quality, flowing excellently from one song to the next. Great songs such as “Deficit” use highly… Read More ›
Reconsider Columbus Day 2011
Happy Genocidal Maniac Day! Five hundred and eighteen years ago, today 12 October, a momentous event happened. The supposed “discovery” by one Cristóbal Colón—also known as Christopher Columbus, landed on the Bahamian island of San Salvador and subsequently was labeled… Read More ›
Political Cartoon: On Steve Jobs
Quick Response code in this cartoon links to this story: Workers Sickened at Apple Supplier in China
It’s not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial
Imagine a prominent figure was charged, not with raping a hotel maid, but with starving her, and her family, to death Sometimes, the most revealing aspect of the shrieking babble of the 24/7 news agenda is the silence. Often the… Read More ›
Protesters Take to the Streets in New York
NEW YORK — Hundreds of people marched Saturday near Wall Street in New York, but the city thwarted their bid to descend into the heart of global finance itself to protest greed, corruption and budget cuts. Protesters had planned to… Read More ›