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Rich getting richer, everyone else getting poorer
A new paper by two economics professors shows once again how inequality has grown in the United States. According to…
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Bailed-out CEO: Give me another $40 billion
Even though they are the most bloodthirsty, short-sighted and egotistical people to ever live, you would still think that a…
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The Ebola crisis and capitalism
As the grave news spreads around the globe about the recent surge in Ebola infections, including an African man who has died…
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The UN Climate Summit—words versus deeds
“At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of…
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A tyranny of greed: starter interrupter devices
My last post noted how the credit card companies are out for blood, garnishing huge portions of workers’ wages for…
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Climate crisis: No solution under capitalism
According to the annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin compiled by the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Atmosphere Watch network, (an agency of…
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Credit card companies out for blood
Wage theft! A recent report by ProPublica and NPR well documents a new form of wage theft being carried out…
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Healthcare is a right
I have written before about the high cost ($84K for a course of treatment) of Sovaldi, the new game-changing hepatitis…
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7 crazy questions teachers ask under capitalism
Almost no other profession is as thoroughly scrutinized as teaching. Everyone thinks they can do it and everyone has an…
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Struggle leads to progress: Medicaid & autism treatment
As Frederick Douglass famously said, “Without struggle there is no progress.” This has once again been proven correct as the…
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