Latest Economy

• Parsons: Standing in solidarity for a humanity without borders

  The true burden of responsibility lies ever more heavily on the shoulders of ordinary people of goodwill
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  Cockburn: Saudi Arabia is showing signs of financial strain as its relationship with the US sours

  Workers in the Saudi desert are not only no longer receiving wages, supplies of food and electricity have also been cut
• Collins: Hillary Clinton Channels Her Inner Teddy Roosevelt

  Clinton’s announcement to expand the federal estate tax on the wealthy is a bold step towards addressing today’s skyrocketing inequality.
• Morken: South Africa: Rising anger as mass student protests return

  On Tuesday, September 20, mass student protests erupted across the country after Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande announced that universities can raise tuition fees by up to 8% next year
• Draitser: Life After the USSR

  The reality of life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe is not at all what was promised.
• Queally: As Tribes Fight Pipeline, Internal AFL-CIO Letter Exposes ‘Very Real Split’

  Leaked letter circulated within nation's largest labor federation illustrates troubling disconnect when what working people deserve and what climate science compels are actually the same thing
• Lunstrum: Militarizing game parks and marketing wildlife are unsustainable strategies

  CITES comes to South Africa
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  Monbiot: Carmageddon Beckons

  Car use takes a huge toll on our health and on the planet. We need to kick our addiction to driving
• Hanrahan: ‘The Bodies of Prisoners Are Commodities’

  Every single budget decision in local, state, county, federal–is based almost entirely on what we’re spending for our prisons
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  Albert: Beyond Marxism

  Marxologists typically do all their quoting not caring that it makes normal people want to run and hide due to anticipating they will hear regurgitated unexplained old fashioned jargon
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  Ward: Indians and Cowboys: The 2016 Version of an Old Story on a New Planet

  Cowboys and Indians are at it again. Americans who don’t...
• Speri: The Largest Prison Strike in U.S. History Enters Its Second Week

  “When you have people who are inside, locked up, who have overcome all these obstacles and barriers and have organized in 24 states, 40 to 50 prisons that means all of us out here need to start stepping up”
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  Escobar: Playing Algorithm’n Blues

  In the end, it’s the Goddess of the Market that rules it all – prizing efficiency, growth and endless cash flow
• Garczynski: Hacker house blues: My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream

  I came to San Francisco to change my life. I found a tribe of depressed workaholics living on top of one another
• Kilgore: “We’re Freedom Fighters”: The Story of the Nationwide Prison Labor Strike

  A flame of resistance inside prisons and in communities across the country is definitely burning
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  Pearson: Celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day Under the Shadow of a Giant Wall

  Without NAFTA, Mexico could have had “European living standards today”
• Johnson: Did You Know We Are Having the Largest Prison Strike in History? Probably Not, Because Most of the Media Have Ignored It

  The prison strike didn’t merit a single mention in NYT, Washington Post, NPR, CNN or MSNBC
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  Feffer: YOLO Economics

  The economy, we have been taught, is a cat with...
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  Wallerstein: Secular Stagnation, or is it worse?

  If we are to behave sensibly, clarity of analysis is the first requirement, followed by moral choice, and political judgment
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  Monbiot: Disposable Planet

  Consumerism occupies a sacred and inviolable space, while the wonders of the living world are dispensable