Capitalism

12/02/20
Author: 
Christopher Flavelle
The Syncrude Canada plant at the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta.Credit...Ben Nelms/Bloomberg

Feb. 12, 2020

Some of the world’s largest financial institutions have stopped putting their money behind oil production in the Canadian province of Alberta, home to one of the world’s most extensive, and also dirtiest, oil reserves.

12/02/20
Author: 
Stuart Parker
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February 11, 2020
 
Names are important. Terms are important. We need to use them more carefully and precisely than ever in this current era of spin, obfuscation, fake news and outright lies that comprise a larger and larger proportion of both our social and mainstream media.
 
05/02/20
Author: 
Alan MacLeod
 image - Jared Rodriguez / Truthout

Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism.

03/02/20
Author: 
Sam Gindin
GM Oshawa closed

February 3, 2020 

On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which is in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto complex on the continent, was to end all its assembly operations by the end of 2019.

25/01/20
Author: 
Michael Massing
‘Just as the Iraq war undermined the authority of the US foreign policy establishment, so did the financial crisis discredit the bankers and regulators responsible for the world economy.’ Photograph: Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters
24 Jan 2020 
 
The 2008 crash stripped the sheen off global capitalism. We’re still living with the effects
 
24/01/20
Author: 
Jessica Corbett
"Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist."

Jan 20, 2020

"Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist."

"Economic inequality is out of control."

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