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What the Facebook Fiasco Tells Us About Our Rigged Stock Market

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. May 24, 2012.

How long will we keep getting Zuckered?

Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. May 14, 2012.

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.

Zizek: How the Occupy Movement Can Confront a Capitalist System That Defies Reform

Slavoj Zizek, The Guardian. April 30, 2012.

The problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt.

Argentina's Oil Grab is Timely Retort to Rampaging Capitalism

Will Hutton, The Guardian. April 22, 2012.

Cristina Fernández's actions, however clumsy, are part of a worldwide reaction to exploitation by business and the rich.

Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey

Noam Chomsky, AlterNet. April 4, 2012.

Forty years ago there was deep concern that the population was breaking free of apathy and obedience. Since then, many measures have been taken to restore discipline.

NYT Mag's Adam Davidson Praises Economic Exploitation

Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism . February 28, 2012.

In his latest 1% apologia, Davidson hails the capitalist lottery system for workers. Yves Smith explains the idiocy of this idea.

Corseted Minds: Does Fear of Irrelevance Send Conservative Men Fleeing to the Victorian Age?

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. February 28, 2012.

If you focus on the utilitarian value of human beings, you may find yourself at some point nervously glancing in the mirror.

How Privatizing Government Shovels Cash to Parasitic Corporations and Undermines Democracy

Mike Konczal, Salon. February 5, 2012.

From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability

How Big Money Bought Our Democracy, Corrupted Both Parties, and Set Us Up for Another Financial Crisis

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company. January 22, 2012.

Bill Moyers talks to President Reagan's former budget director and to Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times about the way Wall Street runs Washington.

MLK, Modern Visionary: An Illustrated Guide Why Dr. King is Still Relevant Today

blank blank, Campaign for America's Future. January 16, 2012.

This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr, but we will hear very little about why he is as relevant today as ever.

7 Ways to Really Take the Ax to Wall Street

Les Leopold, AlterNet. January 4, 2012.

We're talking about how to save democracy from the plutocratic rule of elite financiers. It's time to think big.

America Beyond Capitalism: Is It Possible?

Gar Alperovitz, Dollars and Sense. January 3, 2012.

Thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.

Go Away, Daddy! The Revolting Bob Parsons and His Toxic Internet Empire

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. January 3, 2012.

If unbridled capitalism is the plague, Go Daddy Founder Bob Parsons and his horrible company are the infected boils on the body politic.

The Very Different "Occupations" That Led to 2011's Global Uprising

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. December 18, 2011.

The protests around the world this year were preceded, in the last twenty years, by some very different kinds of occupations.

To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism

Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 27, 2011.

Deniers have concluded that fighting climate change can only happen by reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.

Back to the Future? Generation X and Occupy Wall Street

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. November 16, 2011.

We started out with Nixon. Could Occupy Wall Street lead us to a new society?

Noam Chomsky Speaks to Occupy: If We Want a Chance at a Decent Future, the Movement Here and Around the World Must Grow

Noam Chomsky, AlterNet. November 1, 2011.

In a speech to Occupy Boston, the linguist and icon hailed the "unprecedented" first weeks of OWS. He cautioned protesters to build and educate first, strike later.

How Global Capitalism Always Finds Fresh Green Pastures to Exploit and Demolish

Zygmunt Bauman, Comment Is Free. October 20, 2011.

In the face of financial crisis, any hope that the parasite will die when it runs out of food is in vain – capitalism is far too inventive.

Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope

Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com. October 19, 2011.

An open letter to Mohammed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation set off the Tunisian revolution, about the beautiful movements that have sprung up in the wake of his death.

Fundamental Political and Economic Mistakes are Speeding Up America's Decline

Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch.com. September 25, 2011.

The new American century was swiftly throttled in three stages: 9/11 (blowback); invasion of Iraq (preemptive war); and 2008 Wall Street meltdown (casino capitalism).

5 Reasons Capitalism Has Failed

Bob Burnett, The Smirking Chimp. August 21, 2011.

The root cause of our recent turmoil is the failure of the dominant economic paradigm -- global corporate capitalism.

Shock Doctrine in Practice: The Connection Between Nighttime Robbery In the Streets and Daytime Robbery By Elites

Naomi Klein, The Nation. August 17, 2011.

When you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance.

If You Own An Xbox -- Or An Air Conditioner -- Can You Still Be Considered Poor?

Rae Gomes, AlterNet. July 21, 2011.

A conservative think-tank seeks to redefine poverty, and of course, gets it all wrong.

Disaster Capitalism is Failing Displaced Haitians

Isabel Macdonald, Colorlines.com. June 22, 2011.

Outsourced reconstruction projects, in-affordable housing, and greed leave grim options for Haitians looking for homes.

The Drug War Is the Inevitable Result of Capitalism Gone Mad; Ciudad Juarez Is All of Our Futures

Ed Vulliamy, Comment Is Free. June 21, 2011.

Narco-cartels are not pastiches of global corporations, nor are they errant bastards of the global economy – they are pioneers of it.

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