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Memo to Wealthy America: Some Facts About the Victims of Greed
This article originally appeared on Nation of Change. Yes, you’ve caused people to suffer. You’ve taken from the poor and the middle class for thirty years, from Reagan to Obama, using a variety of strategies
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Beyond Green Dogma: Environmentalists Need to Take Nuclear Power Seriously
Back in 2007, I was, like all self-identified, self-respecting greens, anti-nuclear. And I was pretty sure that, based on my reading of ecosocialists like Bellamy Foster and Magdoff (more on them below) as well
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A Life or Death Choice is Upon Us
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt established the War Production Board to meet the needs of retooling the USA for the looming war effort. His demands were
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Fred Magdoff: Capitalism and the Environment
The purpose of capitalism — and the way it functions — is to invest money in order to make more money. In other words, the motivations of investors are to make profits and accumulate,
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The anticapitalist transition in Europe
This post originally appeared on Lenin’s Tomb. This post will look at the anticapitalist transition from three perspectives: first, the basis for European anticapitalist politics in real dilemmas posed by the breakdown of the
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CODE GREEN: Recycled Propaganda
See more Code Green comics and Stephanie’s work by visiting her website
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What the Occupy Movement Demands of Each of Us
That we work to defeat and to overthrow the rule of the 1% (and the 0.1%) over our lives, our society, and our world; That we devote our lives to ending the oppression, domination,
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Richard Wolff on Leaving Our Unstable System
For 50 years, it has been impossible in the United States to seriously debate or criticize our economic system. The different points of view represent different ways of cheerleading for it. So in a
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What Future for Pensions?
Compared to its Northern European counterparts, the US welfare state has always been considered inadequate. After decades of ‘reforms’ pushed through aggressively by the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations, it now rests on a
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