Stories by Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit teaches economic inequality at DePaul University. He is the founder and developer of the Web sites UsAgainstGreed.org, PayUpNow.org and RappingHistory.org, and the editor and main author of "American Wars: Illusions and Realities" (Clarity Press). He can be reached at paul@UsAgainstGreed.org. subscribe to Paul Buchheit's feed

The 5 Biggest Obscenities of Capitalism Today

Posted on: Jul 14, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Committed capitalists fail to recognize that individual success is a result of collaborative effort.

4 Shocking Facts About Corporate Tax Dodging

Posted on: Jul 8, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Did you know that just 32 companies avoided enough in 2012 taxes to pay the ENTIRE 2013 federal education budget?

More Evidence That America's Middle Class Is Sliding Toward the Third World

Posted on: Jun 30, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The U.S. is near the bottom of the developed world in median wealth, probably the best gauge for the economic strength of the middle class.

6 Facts About Hunger That Demonstrate the Shameful Excesses of American Capitalism

Posted on: Jun 23, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Children, seniors and disabled citizens going hungry is a stain on humanity.

How Corporate Greed Is Starving Our Public School System

Posted on: Jun 16, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The total cost of K-12 educational cutbacks in recent years is about equal to the amount of state taxes left unpaid by these companies.

5 Ways the Tech Companies Are Making Monster Profits by Stealing from Our Future

Posted on: Jun 9, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Companies like Apple and Google haul in huge profits, but invest minimally in America and skirt the tax laws that pay for the next generation's education.

4 Major Ways the Rich Pile On and Exploit the Rest of Us For More Money and Profit

Posted on: Jun 2, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The new normal is for the wealthy to seize all of the income, move profits offshore and make everyone else pay the bills.

The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping Upward

Posted on: May 26, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. A shocking figure. But it's actually much, much worse.

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Posted on: May 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Big business is making its way around the world like a modern-day Attila the Hun, pillaging and despoiling the planet.

Ayn Rand USA: In 20 Years Corporate Profits Are Up 4X and Their Taxes Have Fallen by 50% -- Meanwhile the Workers' Payroll Tax Has Doubled

Posted on: May 12, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Corporations have decided to let middle-class workers pay for national investments that have largely benefited businesses over the years.

5 Ways That Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society

Posted on: May 5, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The predators on our society will scream about threats to "freedom" as soon as we start going after them, but it's just about trying to protect profits.

What Americans Should Really Be Terrified Of

Posted on: Apr 28, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We're directing most of our resources toward tragedies that might happen instead of tragedies that occur every day.

How Capitalism Is Dismembering America

Posted on: Apr 21, 2013, Source: AlterNet

If there's any way capitalism can work, it has to be regulated. Otherwise greed takes over.

How America's Corporate Overlords Cheat and Screw Us on Taxes

Posted on: Apr 14, 2013, Source: AlterNet

They make much of their revenue in the U.S., but claim billions of dollars in foreign profits and billions of dollars in U.S. losses, thereby evading their tax duty.

The Corporate Betrayal of America -- Ripping off the Public, Running off with the Profits to Avoid Taxes

Posted on: Apr 7, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The huge multinationals have made it clear; they don't feel obliged to give anything back to the people who made it all possible.

8 Ways the Prophets of Capitalist Greed Justify Their Success and Your Slide Toward Poverty

Posted on: Mar 31, 2013, Source: AlterNet

From the 'get a job' critic to the 'self-made' entrepreneur.

Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality in America -- The Contrasts Will Drop Your Chin to the Floor

Posted on: Mar 24, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Any of the ten richest Americans could pay a year's rent for all of America's homeless with their 2012 income.

16 Giant Corporations That Have Basically Stopped Paying Taxes -- While Also Cutting Jobs!

Posted on: Mar 18, 2013, Source: AlterNet

It's a golden age for corporate profits. So why don't our biggest corporations pay more taxes?

5 Ways Privatization Is Poisoning America

Posted on: Mar 10, 2013, Source: AlterNet

We all live better lives when the common good is not for sale.

Horror Care: How Private Health Care Is Shortening Our Lives

Posted on: Mar 3, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The personal stories recounted below make it clear that an essential human need has been turned into a product that benefits a few people at the expense of many others.

The 2013 Oscars for America's Foulest Hypocrites

Posted on: Feb 25, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The best actors in America are the business and government leaders who impersonate job creators and makers of prosperity.

5 Signs Extreme Wealth Deadens the "Empathy" and "Honesty" Parts of the Brain

Posted on: Feb 19, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The wealthy give plenty of excuses for our outrageously unjust society. They just go to show that extreme wealth can destroy your brain.

5 Ways America Is Being Hollowed Out by Unfettered Corporate Greed

Posted on: Oct 14, 2012, Source: AlterNet

There's no free market -- just businesses doing whatever they please with virtually zero accountability.

What's Wrong with American Education Policy? It's as Simple as A-B-C

Posted on: Sep 24, 2012, Source: UsAgainstGreed.org

Three key ways America's approach to education is failing our children.

5 Curses of Privatization That Will Be Haunting Us For a Long Time

Posted on: Sep 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Essential public needs are fast becoming the newest products on the market -- with the benefits only going to those who buy them.

In Our Political Moment, It's Simply Not Enough to Have the Facts on Your Side -- How to Defeat Right-Wing Propaganda

Posted on: Aug 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet

We have to learn how to make the facts more appealing to the people who need to hear them.

5 Ways Privatization Is Ruining America

Posted on: Aug 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

We spend lifetimes developing community assets, then give them away to a corporation for lifetimes to come.

5 Things You Can Expect from Washington if You Elect Republicans

Posted on: Aug 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Republicans have their own special contemptible methods of handling politics in Washington.

3 Big Lies Perpetuated By the Rich

Posted on: Jul 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Too many Americans continue to be numbed by the soothing sounds of conservative spin in the media. Let's take a look at the facts.

5 Reasons the Super-Rich Need Government More Than the Rest of Us

Posted on: Jul 24, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Wealthy individuals and corporations want us to believe they've made it on their own, without the help of government or the American people. That's the bull of Wall Street.

Spiraling Inequality Is a Disease Afflicting Our Entire Society

Posted on: Jan 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The Salaries of all Public School Teachers in New York City, Paid to One Man.

Posted on: Apr 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Hedge fund manager John Paulson, who made a clever bet against subprime mortgages, made close to $4 billion.