The world is on fire all around us. The free market can’t put that fire out — only massive state intervention in the economy can.
Source: The Free Market Is Making All Our Problems Worse, Not Better
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John Kerry’s Global Fix-it Campaign
“I’m absolutely convinced we will get a low-carbon, no-carbon economy at some point in time. The challenge is will we get there in time to heed the
Source: John Kerry’s Global Fix-it Campaign – CounterPunch.org
You Can Thank Ronald Reagan for the Economic Shitstorm to Come | Thom Hartmann
In addition to an economy held together with the baling-wire of Fed stimulus (that’s ending), both the U.S. and the world are facing a wild spectrum of assaults that could have huge economic impacts.
Source: Opinion | You Can Thank Ronald Reagan for the Economic Shitstorm to Come | Thom Hartmann
Capitalism Creates Chaos. The Carceral System Is a Bad Attempt to Contain It.
Capitalism creates social disorder and relies on police and prisons to manage it. Until liberals recognize this link between criminal justice and the economy, their reform programs will be ineffectual — and racist policing and mass incarceration will persist.
Source: Capitalism Creates Chaos. The Carceral System Is a Bad Attempt to Contain It.
The Global Economy Shock of the Ukraine War
In small and large ways, the war in Ukraine is affecting the rest of the world, but nowhere is its effect more devastating than on countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and South Sudan, to name but four, which have been torn apart by decades of warfare. For them the Ukraine crisis is the final destructive blow for weak governments and societies that are barely holding together.
Source: The Global Economy Shock of the Ukraine War – CounterPunch.org
News From Never-Neverland
What needs to be done? Nothing less than a revolution in the way the world’s economy functions and the fuels that drive it. What can be done? Not much. What will be done? Almost nothing. That’s my read on the latest (and reportedly the final) consensus report from the IPCC, a document reads less like the Book of Revelations than an after-bombing damage assessment. The bottom-line is that the 1.5C warming goal set by the panel in 2015 is obsolete. It’s unattainable. Defunct. Moreover, it’s always been unattainable. The international plans to slow global warming from Kyoto to Paris would not have been able to keep the climate below that threshold, even had they been fully-implemented. Needless to say, they haven’t been fully implemented. Far from it.
Source: Roaming Charges: News From Never-Neverland – CounterPunch.org
Mary Childs on the Man Who Turned America’s Economy Into a Literal Casino
Mary Childs, the co-host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” joins Robert Scheer to discuss her new book, “The Bond King” on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”
Source: Mary Childs on the Man Who Turned America’s Economy Into a Literal Casino – scheerpost.com
1848+: The End(s) of History 