Capitalism

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[…]

Biden is No FDR and Build Back Better Legislation Proves It

October 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Big Pharma, Capitalism, War on the Poor

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 27, 2021 It has to be said that this is the only possible explanation for the assertion that 2 people can block the Democrat majority in congress from doing what they have to do to keep their majority through the next general election. [jb] The idea that Joe Biden is the[…]

Build Back Better: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt

October 13, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Democrats and Republicans, Legislation, US Government Action, US Politics

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 13, 2021 Some provisions of Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation benefit the masses of Black people, but this legislation is a bare minimum effort to blunt some of the sharpest contradictions of the system while attempting to maintain the neoliberal order. For more than a week the country has been caught[…]

Israeli-Headed Malware Company Buying up VPNs

October 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Israel

Reposted from Restore Privacy, on Israel Palestine News, September 15, 2021 Not everyone will find this article interesting, but it is really important because it shows how vulnerable we are to criminal activity on the internet, at least in part because there is no oversight. Maybe for simple cyber theft, but these guys have also been in the espionage business.[…]

Global Supply Chain Crisis: Workers’ Health and Safety vs. Capitalists’ Profits

October 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Economic Collapse, Labor Struggles, Public Health

by Betsey Piette, published on Workers World, October 7, 2021 At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, panic buying seemed to create a shortage of different necessities, including toilet paper. Midway through the COVID-19 pandemic, housing prices started rising drastically, as demand surpassed supply due to shortages of construction materials. As students returned to in-person learning, schools found[…]

U.S. Workers are Being Pushed Into an Abyss

October 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Global Economics, Labor

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, September 7, 2021 For many U.S. workers — especially low-wage workers — it has suddenly become much more difficult to put food on the table and to keep a roof over these tables. The Department of Labor estimates 9.2 million workers are enrolled in programs providing unemployment aid to workers affected by the[…]

AUKUS: Myth of a New “Cold War” Between the U.S. and China/Russia

September 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Imperial Wars

by Jeff Mackler Socialist Action, September 27, 2021 Friends, Jeff presents a different but useful perspective on China (and Western relations with China) from what you usually see here. I invite discussion around this point. [jb] AUKUS, or the new and secretly negotiated $66 billion nuclear-powered submarine agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S., has momentarily ruffled some[…]

The Hell That is Haiti

September 17, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Haiti, Racism

by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, September 12, 2021 Haiti is being hit by an unending series of natural and human-made disasters – seemingly all at once. The assassination on July 7 of its president Jouvenel Moise; an Aug. 14 earthquake; tropical storms; rampaging gang violence and a COVID crisis in a society tortured by extreme poverty and inequality.[…]

In Nobody’s Backyard: Rejecting Geo-Political and Historical Fatalism

August 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Cuba, Latin America

By Gerard Perierra, published on Tortilla Con Sal, July 29, 2021 Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago participated[…]

Biden’s $Trillion Taxing the Rich Social Infrastructure Charade Crumbles

July 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Capitalism, The War at Home, U.S. Budget

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 18, 2021 Today the New York Times announced that the modified (gutted) bill had passed the Senate. The Biden administration is claiming success in bipartisan collaboration. [jb] If we are to believe the almost daily front-page major media headlines, President Joseph Biden has embarked on an historic congressional battle to massively fund[…]