Stories by Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant is author of the book, Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War (Random House Crown), about working class America. A complete archive of his on-line work, along with the thoughts of many working Americans on the subject of class may be found on his website.
We've been reduced to "human assets" in a relentless economic machine. And we can't even complain: appearing cheerful is vital when all of life is monitored by an employer.
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
America is broke. And the easy credit, phantom "growth" economy has been exposed for what it was: a credit scam.
Posted on Oct 27, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
Obama needs to lay off the foot-work and throw a punch!
Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"There ain't any health care debate going on, Bubba. What is going on are mob negotiations about insurance, and which mob gets the biggest chunk of the dough."
Posted on Aug 22, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
Capitalism has raped the resources of the world. Now corporations are left to strip human experience from life, then rent it back to us.
Posted on Aug 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"We're starting to hear a little discussion about the white underclass... Mainly because so many middle class folks are terrified of falling into it."
Posted on Jul 18, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
Restoring dignity to laboring America won't be easy. It won't be pretty, and it won't be "within the system." Because the system is the problem.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"It don't matter who gets to warm his butt in the White House chair. The top dogs eat high on the hog and the little dogs eat the tails and ears."
Posted on May 27, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
The most chilling accomplishment of American capitalist culture is that we have commodified our own consciousness.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
I have to echo Hunter S. Thompson in his sentiment that, while I wouldn't recommend drugs and mayhem to anyone, it's always worked for me.
Posted on Mar 25, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
Stress, depression and loneliness permeate daily life in America. Yet psychiatrists try to sell us on the idea that the pain is ours alone.
Posted on Feb 11, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com
We somehow came to believe Wall Street's success was ours too, and that the bills we owed were never going to come due. Well, they are now.
Posted on Oct 3, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
Unlucky citizens who fall victim to the U.S. justice system are treated like profit centers to be squeezed without mercy.
Posted on Jun 17, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
From Kibby's Cool Spot in Belize, politics makes sense - sort of.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Wanting everything is not the problem. Always getting what we want is.
Posted on Oct 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Watch television in countries with supposedly primitive media, and after a while you will be shocked at the technologically mediated and shape-shifted image of the world presented to Americans.
Posted on Aug 9, 2007, Source: AlterNet
