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'The Dark Knight Rises' Asks Us to Believe the Rich Can Save Us

Mark Fisher, Comment Is Free. July 22, 2012.

The new Batman film isn't the simple conservative parable rightwingers would like, but it is a reactionary vision.

Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of Quarterly Profits

Bill Moyers, Chris Hedges, Bill Moyers. July 21, 2012.

Hedges discusses his new book with Moyers and the totally unchecked corporate power that is destroying our democracy.

Fifty Shades of Capitalism: Pain and Bondage in the American Workplace

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. July 12, 2012.

The symbol of capitalism was lately a vampire. Enter the CEO with nipple clamps.

Restoring Trust in the American Economy: The Real World v. The Confidence Fairy

Paul Davidson, AlterNet. July 11, 2012.

Smart investment, wise regulations and fair taxation are the things that restore economic confidence in the Real World.

Profiting From Market Failure: How Today's Capitalists Bring Bad Things to Life

Douglas K. Smith, AlterNet. July 10, 2012.

Capitalists are perpetuating, and making big bucks from, market failures that deliver crappy products and shoddy services.

The Great Capitalist Heist: How Paris Hilton's Dogs Ended Up Better Off Than You

Gerald Friedman, AlterNet. July 8, 2012.

Elites say that we need inequality to encourage the rich to invest and the creative to invent. That's working out well -- for 1% pooches.

How Out-of-Control Credit Markets Threaten Liberty, Democracy and Economic Security

Edward Harrison, AlterNet. July 6, 2012.

Opaque, dysfunctional and corrupt credit markets are hazardous to America's health.

Confederate Vampires: How Abraham Lincoln Fights for the 99 Percent

Nicholas Powers, AlterNet. June 27, 2012.

The progressive agenda of soon-to-be cult classic film "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter"

Exclusive Interview: Joseph Stiglitz Sees Terrifying Future for America If We Don't Reverse Inequality

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. June 24, 2012.

What will life look like down the road if we don't reverse economic inequality? We must see through the myths of capitalism and build a mass movement if we are to save ourselves.

Democracy in the Workplace? Spain's Mondragon Corporation Shows Us an Alternative to Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff, Comment Is Free. June 24, 2012.

"We are not some paradise, but rather a family of co-operative enterprises struggling to build a different kind of life around a different way of working."

Bill Moyers: Thomas Frank and Mother Jones on the Vast, Corrupting Power of Money in Politics

Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com. June 21, 2012.

When it comes to the vast, corrupting influence of money in politics, historian Thomas Frank has sounded the alarm loudly and often.

What the Facebook Fiasco Tells Us About Our Rigged Stock Market

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. May 24, 2012.

How long will we keep getting Zuckered?

Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. May 14, 2012.

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.

Zizek: How the Occupy Movement Can Confront a Capitalist System That Defies Reform

Slavoj Zizek, The Guardian. April 30, 2012.

The problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt.

Argentina's Oil Grab is Timely Retort to Rampaging Capitalism

Will Hutton, The Guardian. April 22, 2012.

Cristina Fernández's actions, however clumsy, are part of a worldwide reaction to exploitation by business and the rich.

Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey

Noam Chomsky, AlterNet. April 4, 2012.

Forty years ago there was deep concern that the population was breaking free of apathy and obedience. Since then, many measures have been taken to restore discipline.

NYT Mag's Adam Davidson Praises Economic Exploitation

Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism . February 28, 2012.

In his latest 1% apologia, Davidson hails the capitalist lottery system for workers. Yves Smith explains the idiocy of this idea.

Corseted Minds: Does Fear of Irrelevance Send Conservative Men Fleeing to the Victorian Age?

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. February 28, 2012.

If you focus on the utilitarian value of human beings, you may find yourself at some point nervously glancing in the mirror.

How Privatizing Government Shovels Cash to Parasitic Corporations and Undermines Democracy

Mike Konczal, Salon. February 5, 2012.

From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability

How Big Money Bought Our Democracy, Corrupted Both Parties, and Set Us Up for Another Financial Crisis

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company. January 22, 2012.

Bill Moyers talks to President Reagan's former budget director and to Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times about the way Wall Street runs Washington.

MLK, Modern Visionary: An Illustrated Guide Why Dr. King is Still Relevant Today

blank blank, Campaign for America's Future. January 16, 2012.

This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr, but we will hear very little about why he is as relevant today as ever.

7 Ways to Really Take the Ax to Wall Street

Les Leopold, AlterNet. January 4, 2012.

We're talking about how to save democracy from the plutocratic rule of elite financiers. It's time to think big.

America Beyond Capitalism: Is It Possible?

Gar Alperovitz, Dollars and Sense. January 3, 2012.

Thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.

Go Away, Daddy! The Revolting Bob Parsons and His Toxic Internet Empire

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet. January 3, 2012.

If unbridled capitalism is the plague, Go Daddy Founder Bob Parsons and his horrible company are the infected boils on the body politic.

The Very Different "Occupations" That Led to 2011's Global Uprising

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. December 18, 2011.

The protests around the world this year were preceded, in the last twenty years, by some very different kinds of occupations.

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