Capitalism

How Environmental Destruction Is Built Into Corporate Design

May 11, 2026 Saskia Karges, Resilience. Educate! Capitalism, Corporatism, Environment, Environmental Destruction

A century ago, Henry Ford attempted to lower the price of the Model T and pay his workers better, famously saying: My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this, we are putting the greatest share of our profits back into the business. The Dodge brothers, minority shareholders, sued. They demanded that Ford stop lowering prices and instead distribute the surplus as dividends. The court ruled in their favor, cementing the idea that a business is carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders.

America’s Suicide Pact

May 9, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Capitalism, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, US Empire

Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by a parasitic ruling class. Democratic institutions seize up. The citizenry is immiserated, wealth is funneled upwards to the ruling class and coercion is the principle form of control. Our suicidal march began long before Donald Trump and his bizarre court of buffoons, sycophants, grifters and Christian fascists took power. It began when the ruling class, especially under the Reagan and Clinton administrations, set out to harvest the country and empire for personal profit.

Five Prices For The Same Product Is Price Manipulation

May 7, 2026 Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Capitalism, Dynamic Pricing, Groceries, Prices

If you’re just trying to assess the way corporations view a particular development, you can learn more from how they talk among themselves than whatever narrative is crafted for general consumption. On dynamic pricing, let’s look just at headlines from Forbes Magazine. In 2024, we have “Harnessing AI for Dynamic Pricing for Your Business,” saying “AI has emerged as a critical tool for implementing dynamic pricing strategies, enabling businesses to adjust prices in real-time based on market demand.” In 2025, we get “Making Dynamic Pricing a C-Suite Imperative.” That declares that “in order to elevate pricing in your company, own it and ensure your leadership teams are treating pricing as the strategic lever it is.”

How US Militarization Is Redefining The Americas

May 3, 2026 Teri Mattson, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Borders, Capitalism, Militarization, State Repression

The modern border is no longer a line. It does not begin at the Rio Grande, nor does it end at a wall. It is not confined to checkpoints, fences, or even national territory. Instead, it stretches—quietly but forcefully—across continents, embedding itself in foreign security forces, domestic policing, and global surveillance systems. This is what journalist and author Todd Miller calls the age of “elastic borders.” First articulated in his book Empire of Borders, the concept describes how U.S. border enforcement has expanded both inward and outward, forming a multilayered system that increasingly resembles a global architecture of control.

Chris Hedges Report: Will The Iran War Cause A Global Depression?

May 1, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. Resistance Report Capitalism, Global Economy, Iran, Supply Chain, Wars and Militarism

The global economic impacts of the American-Israeli war on Iran are already being felt, particularly in Asia, through shortages of fuel and other necessities, the closure of factories and the loss of jobs. We are now on a path heading for a global recession, or even worse, a global depression. To sort out what potentially lies ahead and the likelihood of preventing the worst outcomes, Chris Hedges speaks with economist Richard D. Wolff, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Wolff begins the interview by discussing the weaknesses of the capitalist economic system.

Documents Of Disaster And Conferences Of Calamity

April 30, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Capitalism, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Paris Agreement

250 years ago, a collection of disgruntled white men - many of them wealthy landowners, slaveholders, and white supremacists - declared their independence from a king and what they believed to be an iniquitous tyranny that exercised interdiction from the pursuit of “life, liberty, and happiness.” This so-called Declaration of Independence (DOI) may very well be the most hypocritical, contradictory, and incomplete document and proclamation in the HIStory of the world. According to the historical society, American Battlefield Trust, 41 of the 56 DOI signers were slaveholders, with Thomas Jefferson, the lead author of the document, himself owning over 600.

Building Power From No Kings To May Day

April 28, 2026 Truus Van Iperen, Left Voice. Resist! Capitalism, Immigrant Rights, May Day, Minneapolis

March 28th brought a rare hint of spring to Minnesota—50 degrees, clear blue skies, and a brisk wind that felt very welcome after a punishing winter. But the season’s hardship extended beyond the weather. It was also marked by the presence of more than 2,000 ICE agents deployed as part of Operation Metro Surge. With national attention fixed on Minnesota as a focal point of the No Kings movement, the weight of this moment runs deeper than recent immigration enforcement alone. Less than a year earlier, in June 2025, State Representative and former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their dog were killed in a political assassination at their home.

Why Youth Must Refuse The Draft

April 23, 2026 Benny Schaft, Workers World. Organize! Capitalism, Draft, GI Resistance, Wars and Militarism

Two weeks ago, the ruling class made a decision against the will of the people, taking the first steps toward reinstituting the draft by passing automatic registration targeting males between the ages of 18 and 26. In other words, they intended to send working-class youth to their deaths as they have done for centuries. None of this is new. The capitalist class has always exploited every tool at its disposal to push young people into the military, to carry out the violence of the state against our comrades in the Global South. One of the most powerful of these tools has always been nationalism, convincing working-class youth that it is their patriotic duty to enlist and “spread democracy,” which is nothing more than a dog whistle for U.S. imperialism.

Let’s Talk Capitalism, Drugs, And The Drug War

April 22, 2026 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. Educate! Capitalism, Criminalization, Public Health, War On Drugs

Let’s talk about capitalism, drugs, and the drug war. Capitalism warps our relationship with substances. It creates conditions for misuse — like despair, alienation, and a future devoid of hope — and then criminalizes that very same use. It locks people away, eliminates so-called surplus labor, and profits from their caged bodies. This alienation — a concept developed by Karl Marx — refers to the feeling of being disconnected from your work, your community, and your own humanity. Capitalism reduces people to mere cogs in a machine. When you feel like a cog, you often seek ways to escape that feeling.

Rising Gasoline Prices Lead Inflation Surge In March

April 12, 2026 Masao Suzuki, Fight Back! News. Educate! Capitalism, Finance and the Economy, Gas Prices, Inflation, Iran

On Friday, April 9 the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their report on consumer prices for March. The Consumer Price Index, or CPI surged 0.9% in March, three times as high as the price increase in February. The increase in consumer prices over the past year shot up from 2.4% in February to 3.3% in March. This year-over-year inflation rate is up by a whole percentage point from 2.3% last March, just before Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. The rise in prices was led by gasoline, up 21.2% in March. While the prices for consumer goods and services other than food and energy, or the so-called “core inflation rate” only ticked up 0.2% in March, the rise in fuel prices started to spill over into other goods and services.

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran And The Bankers’ Endgame

April 10, 2026 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Educate! Bankers, Capitalism, Iran, Wars and Militarism

In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny. As James Corbett documented in recent Corbett Report episodes, the nuclear pretext appears to be recycled propaganda, and the scale and timing of the strikes raise deeper questions about motive. The thesis that “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars” was popularized by Michael Rivero in a 2013 documentary by that name.

US Imperialism And The Hubris Of White ‘Supremacy’ Ideology

April 2, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Capitalism, US Empire, US Imperialism, White Supremacy

Last week, New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada in a piece entitled, Pax Americana, Meet Lax Americana, remarked, “We had a good run - some eight decades or so - but it’s clear now that the United States has ceased to be the leader of the free world.” Who exactly Mr. Lozada meant by “we” is a subject for another time - but I would argue that “we” certainly does not refer to the masses of poor and working class Black, Brown, Indigenous and white folk who have little to do with the barbaric and draconian imperialist and neo-colonial machinations of the U.S. empire in the same way that developing nations have little to do with the profligate greenhouse gas emissions driving and exacerbating the climate crisis.

Worse Than 2008?

March 21, 2026 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. Educate! Capitalism, Economic crisis, Global Economy, Iran, Wars and Militarism

Several commentators have remarked that the United States’ war on Iran carries echoes of 2008. I’ll argue here that a potential financial crash this year could actually be much worse. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008 was the biggest economic crunch since the Great Depression. Unemployment surged, topping 10 percent in the US. Global stocks lost trillions of dollars in value. Major brokerage houses collapsed. The US auto industry only survived thanks to enormous government bailouts. How could another crash top that?

Infrastructure, Finance, And The Sale Of The Future

March 10, 2026 Bart Hawkins Kreps, Resilience. Strategize! Book Review, Capitalism, Finance and the Economy, Transformation

Imagine yourself as a housing developer – an entrepreneur, a big-time player, a real deal-maker. Your people devise a plan to borrow money, buy land, design and win approval for a new subdivision, and sell 1,000 new housing units. Then, perhaps years before the houses are completed and decades before the initial mortgages are repaid, you sell your shares in the venture for a tidy profit. A neat trick, this, cashing in today on bills that others will pay long into the future. You have become wealthier, but have you been a “wealth creator”? For that matter, are you contributing to “economic growth”?

Iran War Described As ‘Biggest Opportunity’ At US Oil Lobby Summit

February 14, 2026 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. Educate! Big Oil, Capitalism, Iran, Wars and Militarism

When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed attempts to steer their agenda, particularly in Venezuela, where he has demanded they immediately restart operations.

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