Capitalism

The Biden Harris Administration is a Political Expression of the Empire’s Crisis of Legitimacy

January 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, The War at Home, U.S. Aggression, US Politics

by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, January 19, 2022 COVID-19 continues to spread with rapid ferocity across the United States. On January 14th, the U.S. surpassed 850,000 COVID-19 deaths. More deaths from the pandemic have accumulated under President Joe Biden than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s lack of competence in addressing the[…]

Living in Epoch-Defining Times: Food, Agriculture and the New World Order

January 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Agroecology, Capitalism, Global Economics, GMO Argriculture

by Colin Todhunter, published on Countercurrents, January 6, 2022 Farmerless farms manned by driverless machines, monitored by drones and doused with chemicals to produce commodity crops from patented genetically engineered seeds for industrial ‘biomatter’ to be processed and constituted into something resembling food. Data platforms, private equity firms, e-commerce giants and AI-controlled farming systems. This is the future that big agritech[…]

Fighting Covid Together

January 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Public Health

by Greg Godels, published in ZZ’s Blog, January 7, 2021 It is often said that “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members,” a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Nothing has brought that measure to the forefront like the two years of the Coronavirus pandemic. In an unusual circumstance, a catastrophe[…]

COVID Fueled by Neoliberal Austerity

January 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Public Health

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 5, 2022 The neo-liberal austerity model of governance ensures that Covid-19 will continue spreading and producing new variants. Only people focused public health remedies will end the pandemic. On December 31, 2019 Chinese media told the world about a newly discovered disease cluster in the city of Wuhan. What was thought to be a[…]

Wildfire Surge of Omicron Confirms: Health Care for Profit More Deadly Than Coronavirus

December 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, China, Healthcare, Public Health

by Sara Flounders, published onWorkers World, December 24, 2021 The ominous toll of 800,000 deaths from COVID-19, reached in the U.S. Dec. 14, confirms that health care for profit is more deadly than the virus itself. The U.S. has consistently had the most COVID-19 deaths of any country. (tinyurl.com/3nunmuv7) Since the omicron variant surfaced here Dec. 1, infection rates have[…]

US Empire Seizes UK’s National Health Service

December 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism

by Stewart Player and Bob Gill, published on Consortium News, December 5, 2021 Hopefully you read the previous article. We see that private insurance companies are overrunning Medicare (and Medicaid) in the U.S. At the same time, one of the biggest is buying up the NIH in the UK. This is, in essence, a corporate coup that when you add[…]

The “Medicare Advantage” Plan to Kill Real Medicare

December 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Economics, Healthcare, Medicare for All

by Thom Hartman, published on MLToday, November 19, 2021 This is very interesting because I have always had an Advantage program and I have wondered how ‘Medicare for All’ would free us from the insurance companies. It never occurred to me that what Thom calls ‘real Medicare’ could actually pay the bills. This does tell us how high the hurdles[…]

Global Supply Chain Crisis: Capitalism, Militarism and Infrastructure

December 5, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, The War at Home

by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, December 3, 2021 Multiple issues confront the U.S. capitalist economy during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Of major impact is the global supply chain crisis which has exposed long-existing problems within the capitalist system. During the last 40 years, corporations have maximized profits by globalization — moving production abroad for the lowest wages. Now[…]

Omicron, Climate Change and Socialism

November 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Environment, Public Health, Socialism

by Joe Lombardo, November 28, 2021 So now we learn that there is a new variant of the virus called Omicron. This, they say may be more transmittable and may be resistant to the vaccines that have been developed. This, of course, was predictable. They horded the vaccines for the rich countries, which meant the virus was allowed to run[…]

COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures

November 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Global Economics, Resistance

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 17, 2021 For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history — a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change. COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern[…]