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Entries from March 2010

The future of socialism: Robert Paul Wollf

March 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments

The Future of Socialism
by
Robert Paul Wolff
An unpromising title, this, in the seventh year of the third millennium of the Common Era; rather like “Recent Developments in Ptolemaic Astronomy” or “Betamax – a Technology Whose Time Has Come.” My grandfather’s dream, the faith of my younger days, has turned to ashes. And yet, I remain persuaded [...]

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Is Anti-Capitalism Enough?

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments

http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2036
Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
— Howard Brick
The New Spirit of Capitalism
by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
translated by Gregory Elliott
Verso Books 2006, paperback edition 2007, 656 pages, $39.95.

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Economy Without Firewalls

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Behind Closed Doors
An Economy Without Firewalls
By ALAN FARAGO
More than two years after Wall Street’s closest brush with death since the Great Depression, taxpayers, investors and voters are still waiting for the kind of bare knuckles Congressional action like the Pecora Hearings in the 1930s that resulted in federal legislation creating basic firewalls within the [...]

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The civic state

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Re-moralise the market, Re-localise the economy, Re-capitalise the poor
by Phillip Blond
respublica.org.uk (October 03 2009)
It is now clear that we are at one of those epoch-changing moments in
British political history. Just as the ‘Winter of Discontent’ in 1978/1979
marked a paradigm shift, an utter and complete reversal of the
pre-existing order and the arrival of something new, something
revolutionary [...]

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World War III Has Already Begun

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/25-03-2010/112718-world_war_three-0

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Has the Earth been cooling?

March 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Has the Earth been cooling?

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Broken by corporate power?

March 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Are Americans Too Broken by Corporate Power to Resist?
We need to take a look at what forces in American society are preventing people from being able to resist tyranny and dehumanization.

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What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

March 26th, 2010 · No Comments

http://monthlyreview.org/100301magdoff-foster.php
Monthly Review March 2010
What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

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Taking on the Religious Right

March 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Counterpunch March 24, 2010
God and His Demons
Taking on the Religious Right
By GREGORY ELICH

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Capitalism Creates Poverty?

March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Video: Capitalism Creates Poverty?
Dr. Michael Parenti: “Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy”
*http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11635.htm*

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