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A Tale of Two Freedoms
It’s Long. It’s Rocket Fueled. And American Workers are just Going to Have to Take it Up the…
Expecting working Americans to carry the weight of every economic challenge while ever effort is offered to ease the burden on investors is the default policy in the United States. How's that working for you?
The Twisted DNA of Capitalism: Part IIb Capital and Disease
Capitalism is not only historically bound up with disease. It is an active cause and contributor to disease.
The Twisted DNA of Capitalism: Part IIa Disease and Capital
The twisted dance between capitalism and disease is not just a contingency, it is incorporated into the DNA of our political economy.
The Twisted DNA of Capitalism: Part I Dehumanized Rationalism
Efficiency and Dehumanized Rationalization Capitalism was born of three catastrophes: Dehumanized Rationalism, Disease, and Slavery. These elements are incorporated into its DNA. This post is a description of the first of these catastrophes.
Not One Thin Dime for Big Corporations
Corporations demand the most Laissez-Fair capitalism they can get--until things go wrong. Then they want socialism for themselves while they fight paying for it for everyone else. If big corporations want capitalism, then let them have it.
An Interesting/Dangerous Test of American Party Politics
Testing two theses of Republican Politics, and maybe the future of the Democratic Party.
The Twisted DNA of Capitalism: Introduction
This is the introduction of a three part series exploring the three building blocks of Capitalism's DNA and how they mutate human society
Envirocommies and the Fall of Capitalism
it does not matter if capital is held by private corporations or by the state or by a political party. The end result remains the same. The Earth bears the scars from this brand of economic efficiency. And people live within that growing scar tissue.
Collapse of the Rational Legal Order
Our current crisis is not one in which the application of the Constitution is uncertain. Rather, it's a question of whether or not the Constitution even matters in the face of a charismatic leader and party loyalty.
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