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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.

Our Produce-or-Die Culture Is Killing Us -- And We're Idiotically Grinning and Bearing It

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

Our Economy Was a Scam and Now We're Dead Broke

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

There Was Nice Talk About 'Change' and 'Hope' But the Money Party Won Again

Obama needs to lay off the foot-work and throw a punch!
Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Entertainment Value from Pulling the Plug on Grandma

"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

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings

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

Look Out, Are You About to Join the White Underclass?

"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

How Unions Gave My Redneck Family a Chance at the American Dream

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

A Redneck View of Obama's Presidency

"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

Bageant: We've Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls -- It's Time to Do Something Meaningful

The most chilling accomplishment of American capitalist culture is that we have commodified our own consciousness.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: JoeBageant.com

Skinny Dipping in Reality: The Great Hippy LSD Enlightenment Search Party

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

Only in America Could Misery Be Turned Into a Commodity

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

The Really Hard-to-Swallow Truth About the Bailout

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

Tragic Traps: Make a Mistake in America and You May Pay a Heavy Price for Decades

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

Getting Out the Bling Vote

From Kibby's Cool Spot in Belize, politics makes sense - sort of.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet

How Americans Like Their Greed: Supersized

Wanting everything is not the problem. Always getting what we want is.
Posted on Oct 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet

A Feast of Bullshit and Spectacle: The Great American Media Mind Warp

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