- Break away from conventional trickle-down economics.
A future-friendly economics is necessary, and possible.Poverty is man-made, and not inevitable.
Produced by a myopic worldview, there is an alternative.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
VIDEO: Koch Brothers Exposed, 2012, 1 hr
to watch the 1 hr video from www.hulu.com, click on Millions of dollars are spent on the propaganda that social security is going bankrupt, raising the retirement age and privatizing social security into private retirement accounts.
The Resilience of Neoliberalism by Vivien Schmidt and Mark Thatcher, Nov 2013
to read the article by Vivien Schmidt and Mark Thatcher published on Nov 20, 2013, click on http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/37626 Given the abject failure of the neoliberal policy offer, why has it persisted as the dominant approach to policymaking and is there … Continue reading
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The Socialist Origins of the Pledge of Allegiance by Peter Dreier
to read Peter Dreier’s article published on 12/24/2013, click on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/pledge-of-allegiance-origins_b_4497369.html “Francis Bellamy, a Christian socialist, wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892 as a critique of the rampant greed, misguided materialism, and hyper-individualism of the Gilded Age. But you’d … Continue reading
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VIDEO: Jesus Rebranded by Mark Fiore
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/20/1263810/-Jesus-Rebranded??detai… Between the “War on Christmas” and the accusations that Pope Francis is a Marxist, some people can’t seem to make up their mind. Who better to wage a war on Christmas than the people who want the Pope to … Continue reading
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VIDEO: “Super Amigos,” 2007, 1 hr 12 min
VIDEO: “Super Amigos,” 2007, 1 hr 12 min Enjoy this call to utopia/social planning/resistance and solidarity! http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/super_amigos
The Soup Kitchen State Grows by Christoph Butterwegge
“Old age poverty is the result of deregulation of the labor market and dismantling the social state. Need justice and distribution justice have always existed in the political realm. The task of the social state was to fight poverty and … Continue reading
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Book Review: “The Victory of Capital” by Ulrike Herrmann
“A society can only provide for the future by investing today in the production of tomorrow… What may be sensible economically for a private household or individual business could be harmful for the national economy, particularly when the economy staggers… … Continue reading
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Chapter 5: When Government Helped
Forthcoming in When Government Helped: Dec 2013, Sheila Collins and Gertrude Goldberg, 57pp, pdf http://www.philipharvey.info/newdealdirect.pdf http://www.philipharvey.info Henry Giroux, Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism, Dec 2, 2013, www.truth-out.org http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20307-hope-in-the-age-of-looming-authoritarianism and The Pope Versus Unfettered Capitalism by John Nichols, Nov … Continue reading
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VIDEO: Overdose, December 22, 2012, 46 min
VIDEO: “Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis,” Dec 22, 2012, 46 min VIDEO: Overdose, December 22, 2012, 46 min Greenspan wanted the punchbowl always full. Now alcohol is added to the bowl! http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/75290/best-of-the-web/overdose-the-next-financial-crisis Nenry Giroux, Hope in the Age of Looming … Continue reading
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