Category: Capitalism
Well They Would, Wouldn’t They?
September 19th, 2008, No Comments
Congressional Democrats think that stealing national assets to cover private losses is just fine and dandy and want to act fast to save the banking system: Rep. Frank sees Congress acting fast on bailout plan They think Bush’s bailing out the banks is brilliant: Democrats see boost for $50 billion econ stimulus By Richard Cowan [...]
Comment Of The Day
September 17th, 2008, No Comments
There’s not much to smile about in the papers this morning except David Hockney in The Grauniad’s letters page, who deserves a special prize for cleverly piggybacking his pet cause onto a crisis : Could it be that the smoke-free rooms of New York bankers are not working as well as the old ones. Smoking [...]
Creativity And True Brilliance Will Get You Noticed
September 16th, 2008, No Comments
But that’s about all it’ll get you. [Via The Consumerist] Megacorporations are lying, thieving bastards. They always were, but they aren’t even bothering to pretend they’re not any more.
“For now you can still buy a Beemer with your dignity intact. The question is, should you?” *
July 25th, 2008, No Comments
A used beemer, that is. Why so? Thanks to Egalia at Tenessee Guerilla Women for drawing my attention to this sick little ad campaign for BMW: As it’s described in Salon: Broadsheet: [A] beautiful young woman — presumably naked and lying in bed — wearing a come-hither look and a crown of blond curls. In [...]
The Surge ™ worked: Shell, others to get Iraqi oil concessions
June 19th, 2008, No Comments
Or perhaps it’s just that oil is at such a high price level now, partially thanks to erm the War on Iraq that the profits now outweight even the risks of working in Iraq. At any rate, the big sell-off has started: BAGHDAD — Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations [...]
America just can’t quit Iraq
June 7th, 2008, No Comments
The United Nations figleaf mandate under which the US has been occupying Iraq since 2003 is running out soon and without it the occupation would become *gasp* illegal. Yes, what difference would it make, I hear you say and you’re right, but the US likes to have its legal fictions all in order, if only [...]
Haiti: laboratory of the neo-neo-liberalism
May 27th, 2008, No Comments
The American Socialist Worker magazine has an interesting interview with Kevin Pinta, founding editor of the Haiti Information Project, in which he talks about the neoliberal roots of Haiti’s food crisis: During that same period, a major transition occurred in Haiti. The Mevs, one of the wealthiest families in Haiti, bought the Haitian American Sugar [...]
“We Shall Fight them On The Beaches…”
April 8th, 2008, No Comments
I’ve been looking at New Labour’s security strategy(pdf file) recently and there appears to be a strange omission – what will the government do when food shortages start to bite at home and when the rising human cost of globalisation and climate change pushes more and more desperate refugees to flee starvation, only to wash [...]
The Not So Almighty Dollar
March 20th, 2008, 2 Comments
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar’s value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while on vacation in the Netherlands. “Our dollar is worth maybe zero over here,” said Mary Kelly, an American tourist from Indianapolis, Indiana, [...]
