2023-01-16: News Headlines

americanthinker (2023-01-16). What Is Capitalism? Even Conservatives Can't Explain It. americanthinker.com Capitalism is not simply free markets. It is a designed, self-accelerating economic system that reduces prices and poverty.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-16). Immanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right. transcend.org Crisis, indeed. The way out is a new discourse, less material, more spiritual; something to live for, not only from. Right now Wallerstein sees capitalism in crisis with no remedy–of which I am not so sure–and the US hegemony also in a crisis with no remedy–a view I share–, as the fall of an empire for which local elites used to kill and rule; now having to do most killings itself.

Editor (2023-01-16). Capitalism's court jester: Slavoj Žižek. mronline.org One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan.

Strike Debt Bay Area (2023-01-16). Saturday 2/11: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Cannibal Capitalism. indybay.org We meet via Zoom. Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

CA Poor People's Campaign (2023-01-16). Monday 1/16: Close the Wealth Gap CA! MLK Day Reading of PPC Third Reconstruction Agenda to End Poverty. indybay.org Online event…

Ann Brown (2023-01-15). Why Dr. Claud Anderson Argues Socialism Doesn't Work For Black Americans. moguldom.com Dr. Claud Anderson was recently asked during an interview if Capitalism was "cap." "Cap" means a lie. While he answered "yes," without hesitation, Anderson pointed out capitalism, with all its foibles, is the only way for Black people to wealth, and that socialism will never work for Black people. Anderson is president of PowerNomics …

Paul Haeder (2023-01-15). Star Dust for Capitalism's Money-Making Geoengineering! dissidentvoice.org You and I, dear reader, if you are of the composition of say Rosa Parks, or Rachel Carson, MLK, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis (or, fill in the social justice champion of your choice), did not sign up for this, or approve of it, or okayed it in our name: Some researchers who have long studied …

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