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- Saturday, Feb 02, 2013
ZNet Article Since the 1970s capitalism has marched steadily back toward its normal ways and means of labor exploitation, imperialism, militarism, and the destruction of nature -
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- Wednesday, Sep 28, 2005
ZNet Article Not for nothing was the opening chapter of Marx's Capital entitled "Commodities," for commodification is among the defining characteristics of capitalism. First was land and labor; now, everything is a commodity; everything is for sale.
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- Wednesday, Sep 14, 2005
ZNet Article Introduction.
Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us as ... -
- Thursday, Sep 08, 2005
ZNet Article Introduction.
Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us a... -
- Tuesday, Apr 05, 2005
Commentary Unless you were very rich and a rightist, the last ten years have been very hard to take. The Clintons' hypocrisies and corruption were bad enough; but they were our guardian angels compared to the scurvy brutes now ruling over us: arrogant, cocky... -
- Wednesday, Dec 01, 2004
Commentary Millions of us are asking such questions today, with at least dozens of answers -- only some of them compatible with each other. Here is mine. -
- Sunday, Aug 08, 2004
Commentary The unholy family of the seven deadly sins is usually seen as composed of anger, avarice, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth. Four of those are greed's parents: avarice, envy, gluttony, and lust -- with pride and anger serving as aunt and uncl... -
- Thursday, Jun 17, 2004
Commentary It is now clear that the presidential election will be very close. Much can happen for better and for worse between now and then at home and, especially, in Iraq; so much that no firm prediction can be made. But this can be said: If the election w... -
- Monday, May 24, 2004
Commentary The outrage and horror that spread and deepened after the revelations concerning Abu Ghraid prison in the spring of 2004 were fully justified, as was the revulsion at Nicholas Berg's beheading and, earlier, the killings and mutilation of Fallujah. -
- Friday, Nov 14, 2003
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- Sunday, Sep 21, 2003
ZNet Article If you are reading this you don't need to be told of globalization's always greater harm to U.S. industrial workers, nor about the sweating of workers in the poorer countries or the environmental damage to their countries. Etc. Such matters are no... -
- Sunday, Sep 14, 2003
Commentary My previous ZCom was on possibilities/probabilities of deflation/depression. This is meant to supplement that argument. -
- Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003
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- Sunday, Jun 15, 2003
Commentary In U.S. economic history, there have been only two periods of sustained deflation: from 1873 to 1897 and the 1930s. Their length and severity led both to be called "depressions." There had been many downturns before 1873, but none had lasted s... -
- Saturday, Jan 12, 2002
Commentary From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine -
- Sunday, Jan 06, 2002
ZNet Article Since our birth in 1776 and Israel"s rebirth in 1948, the two nations have had some important thngs in common. Most important for present purposes is that in both countries most of their peoples -- if never all -- have seen their nation's birth as... -
- Friday, Jun 01, 2001
Commentary The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of Carter's presidency -- prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff t... -
- Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Commentary The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of CarterÕs presidency Ñ prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff te... -
- Saturday, Feb 24, 2001
Commentary Just when we're about to blow our tops at the airlines for the delays and crowding and lousy service -- and rising prices -- we get blindsided by blackouts and for our electricity and rising prices (as also for gas, and water, and gasoline). How c... -
- Wednesday, Jan 31, 2001
Commentary By Doug DowdThe New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was a short recession, then a sharp inflation and unsteady good times and a very sharp recession, 1921-22; then began the so-called "pro... -
- Thursday, Dec 14, 2000
Commentary The two cities are Bologna and Venice. The environmental problems threatening both, despite well-publicized "remedies," have not improved but worsened in recent decades; the cities, their problems, and their failure to deal with them exemplify all... -
- Thursday, Nov 23, 2000
Commentary Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t... -
- Saturday, Sep 02, 2000
Commentary History is replete with corrupt and decadent societies, including (but not beginning with) that of 1st Century Rome, where decadent/corrupt Nero fiddled as corrupt/decadent Rome burned. Iniquity -- and inequality -- in ancient and medieval societ... -
- Monday, Jul 10, 2000
Commentary Anyone giving that advice today would be seen as deranged; but, as some oldies will remember, such was once the received truth, as proclaimed by Founding Father Ben Franklin (along with "Waste not, want not" and "A penny saved is a penny earned"). -
- Saturday, Jun 24, 2000
Commentary In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,... -
- Friday, May 26, 2000
Commentary The rising tide of center/right socioeconomic policies in the United States (among other societies) appalls a goodly share of our people. Riding high on what is now a flood tide, propelled by and propelling it, has been the phenomenal Second Comin... -
- Saturday, May 06, 2000
Commentary Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed. Set those words beside these: I am somehow less inte... -
- Thursday, Apr 13, 2000
Commentary Of course it's been better than nothing, considering only the great number of old and survivors it has kept at or above the poverty line; or so we are told. But at least two points: about 40 percent of families over 65 have an annual income of und... -
- Wednesday, Apr 05, 2000
Commentary Of course it's been better than nothing, considering only the great number of old and survivors it has kept at or above the poverty line; or so we are told. But at least two points: about 40 percent of families over 65 have an annual income of und... - All Most Recent Content
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