- 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: March 2017
Europe turn left!
www.europeturnleft.eu Topics overview Introduction into the thematic areas – Europe swing to the right – fight back! – Fortress Europe – refugees welcome! – Neoliberalism in Europe – stop austerity – New social movements in Europe – organize the change … Continue reading
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Trumponomics: causes and prospects by L. Randall Wray
The odds on a Trump resignation are 11:10, almost even money – for the sake of the Trump brand! Trumponomics: causes and prospects by L. Randall Wray real-world economics review https://rwer.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/trumponomics-end-globalization-and/ As I wrote in 2012, “Here in the U.S., … Continue reading
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For a Positive Narrative of the Left by Michael Brie
For a Positive Narrative of the Left by Michael Brie, 3/4/17 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/22/18797615.php Whether the dislocations and cyclical crises since 2008 will lead to its final farewell is a question that drives parts of the middle-class and not only the left. … Continue reading
The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
Trump is determined to reduce government to chaos! http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/13/1642640/-Cartoon-Campaign-flashback The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter, Harpers, November 1964 http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ “The megalomaniac’s view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the … Continue reading
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For an Unconditional Basic Income by Thomas Straubhaar
For an Unconditional Basic Income More Prosperity for Everyone by Thomas Straubhaar, 3/9/17 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/20/18797557.php The basic income corrects the distribution effects of the labor market. It takes something from the higher paid to give to those who earn little or … Continue reading
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The Social State and the FDR Rescue
Here are several thoughts from philosophy and theology when the strong winds shake everything but the Wall Street banks. You can watch “Capitalism: A Love Song,” “We’re Not Broke,” “War Made Easy,” “Iraq for Sale,” “War on Whistleblowers,” “Fish Out … Continue reading
Without Social Democracy, Capitalism Will Eat Itself by Karin Pettersson
Without Social Democracy, Capitalism Will Eat Itself by Karin Pettersson, Feb 10, 17 https://www.socialeurope.eu/2017/02/without-social-democracy-capitalism-will-eat/ The Golden Age has now been gone longer than it lasted and the world it sprung from doesn’t exist anymore. Once a balance was struck between … Continue reading
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Video: “Forget Shorter Showers,” 11 min
Video: “Forget Shorter Showers,” 2015, 11 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2TbrtCGbhQ
Bernie Sanders: “Despair is not an option”
to read the interview with Bernie Sanders published in The Guardian, March 10, 2017, click on https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/bernie-sanders-interview-trump-democratic-party-resistance The senator talks about his fight to make the Democratic party more attractive to working-class people – and on taking his progressive populism … Continue reading
The “Security Conference” – A Fraudulent Labeling by Walter Listl
We say: No more world war fantasies and war preparations. Peace instead of NATO – Human dignity instead of the military – Reason instead of Trump. THE ‘SECURITY CONFERENCE” – A FRAUDULENT LABELING By Walter Listl [This address at the … Continue reading
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