Capitalism

Governance Without Hierarchy, Patriarchy Or Capitalism

December 20, 2015 Akbar Shahid Ahmed, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Capitalism, Democracy, Kurds, Syria

By Akbar Shahid Ahmed for Huffington Post. ISTANBUL -- Last fall, Islamic State fighters launched a coordinated, large-scale assault on the Kurdish town of Kobani on Syria's northern border with Turkey. Fresh from victories that granted them an aura of invincibility, the extremists were about to remove the single irritant on a wide swath of the border they otherwise controlled. The world watched in resignation. The lone superpower said it would not help. U.S. officials grimly predicted the city would fall. Yet the small band of Kurds held on for days, then weeks. The U.S.-led coalition against the self-described Islamic State began to help, first with a smattering of airstrikes then with daily assaults.

Check This Before You Overpay Comcast

December 19, 2015 Jon Brodkin, www.arstechnica.com Educate! Capitalism, Comcast

By Jon Brodkin for ARS Technica - You probably know that Comcast is hitting subscribers with overage charges of $10 when they exceed their 300GB monthly data caps. But can customers trust Comcast to measure Internet usage accurately? The nation’s largest cable company points to research it commissioned showing that its data metering is usually accurate, but one customer who contacted Ars was able to prove that he was being incorrectly accused of using excessive data. Oleg, a programmer from Tennessee who prefers that we not publish his last name, said he got repeated warnings from Comcast that he was using too much data.

Towards A New Anti-Capitalist Politics

December 15, 2015 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org Strategize! Capitalism

By Jerome Roos for ROAR Magazine - Humanity finds itself at an inflexion point. On the one hand, global capitalism is producing and aggravating a series of existential crises that may well undermine the very preconditions for a dignified human life—or any form of human life—on this planet. On the other, the only political force that could possibly do something to counter this inexorable drive towards catastrophe—the international left—has long since been run into the ground by a four-decade neoliberal offensive, leaving its social base fragmented and atomized, its organizational structures in tatters.

New Report Tallies Cost Of “Walmart Model” Economy

December 11, 2015 Dave Johnson, www.ourfuture.org Educate! Capitalism, Corporations, Walmart

By Dave Johnson for Campaign For America's Future - Some call this the “Walmart Model.” One result of this model is that the six “Walmart heirs” are so wealthy from inherited stock that they have more wealth than 42 percent of all Americans combined. That figure is from 2012. It may be worse now. The billionaires created by stripping the rest of our wages (and taxes needed to fund our government) use the wealth gained from this model to influence our government and keep the game going. For example, the Walton heirs helped fund a drive to repeal inheritance taxes.

America’s Next Wave Of Student Protests Takes Aim At Capitalism

December 10, 2015 C. Robert Gibson, www.usuncut.com Resist! Capitalism, Student Protests

By C. Robert Gibson for US Uncut - After an historic year of campus activism, a new movement is building on college campuses to spearhead a nationwide conversation — how to outlast capitalism. In the last month or so, an unprecedented wave of activism has spread across college campuses nationwide. From the Million Student March to end student debt and implement tuition-free public colleges and universities, to the Black Lives Matter protests that were spontaneously organized to show solidarity with black students at the University of Missouri and other students fighting structural racism on campuses, the last month has been the busiest for student activism in decades.

Apocalyptic Capitalism

December 8, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Capitalism, Climate Change, Paris

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than 20 years ago, carbon dioxide emissions have soared. Placing faith in our political and economic elites, who have mastered the arts of duplicity and propaganda on behalf of corporate power, is the triumph of hope over experience. There are only a few ways left to deal honestly with climate change: sustained civil disobedience that disrupts the machinery of exploitation...

History: The Dignity Of Chartism

December 6, 2015 John Westmoreland, www.counterfire.org Strategize! Book Review, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

By John Westmoreland for Counterfire.org. The Dignity of Chartism is a book of great relevance for today. In the years 1839-42, at the height of the Chartist struggle, capitalism was in its youth. Today it is in its dotage. The neoliberal free-market doctrine was and is the dogma of both eras. The mass eruptions we see today, as with Chartism then, are a result of the relentless pursuit of profit in a mad competition that generates poverty, war and environmental destruction. Read Dorothy Thompson’s marvellous book. Be inspired by the Chartists, and learn how they built a mass movement, through education, agitation and struggle. Then build a mass movement that finishes the job that the Chartists started.

The Age Of The Demagogues

December 1, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Capitalism, Class war, Exploitation

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - The increase in nihilistic violence such as school shootings and Friday’s lethal assault on a Planned Parenthood clinic, the frequent executions of poor people of color by police, and the rise of thuggish demagogues such as Donald Trump are symptoms of the collapse of our political and cultural institutions. These institutions, which once made possible piecemeal and incremental reform, which sought to protect the weak from the tyranny of the majority and give them a voice, acted as a safety valve to ameliorate the excesses of capitalism and address the grievances of the underclass.

Declaration: If We Want To Save The Earth

November 22, 2015 many organizations, www.salvarlatierra.org Create! Capitalism, climate crisis, Empire, Imperialism

For SalvarLaTierra.org. We are a coalition of international activists and this is our environmental declaration approved by 36 popular organizations from the Americas and Europe. We include the largest union of peasant farmers in Colombia; leading anti-war groups from the United States; environmental and youth collectives from Venezuela; political movements from Peru; and independence activists from the Basque Country. We also include human rights defenders, students, environmentalists and social activists from Mexico, Argentina, Spain and Nicaragua. Everyone wants to save the planet and achieve climate justice. This struggle is very broad and includes activists from many classes, political orientations and countries. But there are some of us who understand that ultimately we won’t be able to save the planet, or at least an Earth that we can recognize by its biodiversity, without dismantling capitalism and imperialism.

CEOs Have As Much In Retirement Assets As 41% Of American Families

November 4, 2015 Sarah Anderson and Scott Klinger, www.ips-dc.org Educate! Capitalism, Retirement, Ruling Class

By Sarah Anderson and Scott Klinger for IPS - (Washington, D.C.) A just-released report by the Center for Effective Government and the Institute for Policy Studies, A Tale of Two Retirements, is the first to provide detailed statistics on the staggering gap between the retirement assets of Fortune 500 CEOs and the rest of America. The report’s major finding: just 100 CEOs have as much in their company retirement assets as the entire retirement savings of 41 percent of American families (50 million families total). The report comes on the heels of a Social Security Administration announcement that beneficiaries will not receive a cost of living increase in 2016.

US Corporate Empire & Global Resistance Bringing It To Its Knees

October 29, 2015 Mnar Muhawesh, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! America, Capitalism

By Mnar Muhawesh for Mint Press News - MINNEAPOLIS — Throughout history, some of the world’s most influential empires have also been the most brutal. In turn, their legacy has turned “empire” into a very dirty word, indeed. The Roman, British, Ottoman, Spanish and Soviet empires come to mind readily. And in school, we learn about the glories of these civilizations, their cultural triumphs and their contributions to the world we live in today. But what’s often left out is the devastating truth that empires are built on the atrocious foundations of sex and migrant slavery, military expansion, land and resource theft, genocide and overall intimidation.

Empire Files: Noam Chomsky On Electing The President Of An Empire

October 25, 2015 AbMartin, www.videos.telesurtv.net Resistance Report Afghanistan, Capitalism, Democracy, Empire Files, Iran, Kunduz, Noam Chomsky, US elections

By Abby Martin for the Empire Files - At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism and the reality of "democracy" under capitalism.

McDonald’s Franchise Owners: Fast Food Giant “Facing Its Final Days”

October 19, 2015 Nick Bernabe, www.theantimedia.org Educate! Capitalism, McDonald's

By Nick Bernabe for Antimedia - San Diego, CA — Embattled fast food giant McDonald’s is making headlines yet again. The company has just launched its much advertised all-day breakfast program, but as that campaign rolls out, franchise owners are voicing their concerns over what may be the company’s dying days. As we covered at Anti-Media in June, the McDonald’s franchise has been shrinking for the first time in the company’s over 40 year history: “McDonald’s announced in April that it would be closing 700 ‘underperforming’ locations, but because of the company’s sheer size — it has 14,300 locations in the United States alone — this was not necessarily a reduction in the size of the company, especially because it continues to open locations around the world. It still has more than double the locations of Burger King, its closest competitor.”

‘Socialist Imperative’: ‘Must-Read For Revolutionaries’

October 18, 2015 Doug Enaa Greene, www.links.org.au Educate! Capitalism, Socialism

By Doug Enaa Greene for Links - Those who open Michael Lebowitz's new book, The Socialist Imperative, will find something far different and refreshing than the old apologetic Soviet manuals on the smooth workings of a planned economy. What they will discover is a collection of writings inspired by Lebowitz's lifetime of activism and profound solidarity with the oppressed and exploited under capitalism and his revolutionary vision of how to build a socialist alternative. The purpose of Michael Lebowitz's book is explained by his title choice -- The Socialist Imperative. As Lebowitz argues, the pressing need to eliminate capitalism and replace it with a “society of associated free producers oriented to the full development of human potential” (p. 8) is not new, but is needed because of capital's drive to expand without limit threatens the destruction of the natural world. This means that the need to act is immediate. Certainly with the crushing crisis of capitalism and ecological disaster in the not too distant future, the time is coming when to act may be too late.

‘Capitalism Is Mother Earth’s Cancer’: World People’s Summit

October 13, 2015 Deidre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Capitalism

By Deidre Fulton for Common Dreams - Decrying capitalism as a "threat to life," an estimated 7,000 environmentalists, farmers, and Indigenous activists from 40 countries convened in the Bolivian town of Tiquipaya for this weekend's World People's Conference on Climate Change, aiming to elevate the demands of social movements and developing countries in the lead-up to upcoming United Nations-led climate talks. "Capitalism is Mother Earth's cancer," Bolivian President Evo Morales told the crowd, which also heard over the course of the three-day conference from United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon as well as other Latin American leaders.

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