- 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: October 2016
Manipulation of Public Opinion by Albrecht Mueller
Manipulation of Public Opinion, 2009 by Albrecht Mueller http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/10/433631.shtml Timocracy-rule of the propertied-threatens to replace democracy. The large majority is blocked from political participation and from forming their social future-unlike what was intended in the model of the majority principle … Continue reading
Video: Tom Hayden, Listen Yankee! (2015), 1 hr
Tom Hayden, the passionate rebel against the Vietnam war, died at 76. Rest in peace, Tom, and thanks for all you did in your lifelong work to make America just and future-friendly. Hayden was a warrior for peace and against … Continue reading
Video: Noam Chomsky: The Alien Perspective on Humanity, 51 min
Video: Noam Chomsky: The Alien Perspective on Humanity, 51 min Albert Einstein said we must have world government or we’re finished. The UN was undermined by the US and nationalism. We had half of the world’s wealth; manufacturing quadrupled after … Continue reading
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Ethics and the Profit System: Global Change of Values Necessary
Ethics and the Profit System: Global Change of Values Necessary by Conrad Schuhler, Sept 25, 2016 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/10/433433.shtml Profit-making is not profit-maximizing. From the magic word profit-mongering is derived the absurd unequal distribution of wealth, the cheating of consumers, the exploitation … Continue reading
Killing Joke and the Eighties
Killing Joke and the Eighties should be required listening – hope comes from outside the box of trickle-down 80s neoliberalism. The invisible hand supposedly made private vices into public virtues and the self-healing market tending to equilibrium was upended by … Continue reading
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Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination
Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination by Julie Nelson, October 2012 Markets are human inventions. Today’s neoliberal economic dogma creates myths that strengthen the most powerful, most greedy, and most short-term economic actors while the normal … Continue reading
Democracy and the Social State by Franz Segbers
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/10/433278.shtml Finance capitalism and Citizens United have turned life, language, and democracy upside down as the $150 million given by Wall Street to Hillary Clinton falls under the rubric “social engagement.” With these theses, Franz Segbers emphasizes the social state … Continue reading
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