The Origins Of Woke CAPITAL
President and Founder of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, Richard Hanania, weighs in on why all institutions are “woke.”
Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering
Probably so. Conventional proletarians tend to be instinctively conservative in the sense of disliking disorder and anything viewed as personally threatening. Insurrectionary activity tends to originate from those with nothing to lose and who do not mind assuming personal risks, i.e. the lumpenproletariat. “Lefty elites” merely regard insurrections […]
Will “Goldman Penis Envy” Crash the Economy Again?
By Matt Taibbi and Eric Salzman Nearly fifteen years ago, on December 10, 2006, the CEO of Senderra, a subprime mortgage lender owned by Goldman, Sachs, sent a grim report to its parent company. “Credit quality has risen to become the major crisis in the non-prime industry,” Senderra […]
Virginia’s minimum wage goes to $9.50 per hour on Saturday, with more increases in the next two years
Outlawing capital punishment, legalizing marijuana, and now raising the minimum wage. Virginia is now a blue state for real. ByJohn Reid Blackwell , Richmond Times-Dispatch Some Virginians will be getting a pay raise thanks to an increase to the state’s mandatory hourly minimum wage. Starting May 1, the […]
Who Runs The World? Blackrock and Vanguard
By Bill Sardi, LewRockwell.Com If you’ve been wondering how the world economy has been hijacked and humanity has been kidnapped by a completely bogus narrative, look no further than this video by Dutch creator, Covid Lie. What she uncovers is that the stock of the world’s largest corporations […]
Which Corporations Control the World?
International Business Guide A surprisingly small number of corporations control massive global market shares. How many of the brands below do you use? It’s a Small World at the Top: Banking Largest banks hold a total of $25.1 trillion:[1] 1.) ICBC, China, $2.95 trillion in assets, over 18,000 […]
Ultra-Rich Now In SIX FIGURE Bidding War Over Trees
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest trend amongst wealthy Americans, “trophy trees.”
The Story of How McDonald’s First Got Its Start
The making of a modern sweatshop. By Lisa Napoli, Smithsonian Magazine Before southern California’s glorious, golden landscape was etched with eight-lane superhighways and tangles of concrete flyovers choreographing a continuous vehicular ballet; before families became enchanted with the thrill and convenience of popping TV dinners into the oven; […]
Amazon Unveils Algorithm To Track Worker Tendon And Muscle Use
Motherboard reporter, Edward Ongweso Jr, breaks down Jeff Bezos’ plan to increase safety by “algorithmically managing workers’ bodies.
Political Establishment Is Weaponizing Identity Politics To Disenfranchise Workers
Emily Jashinsky gives her thoughts on the “wokeness” problem and how it allows powerful people to “maintain their control.”
Should People Be Able To OWN Land?
I generally hold to the view that concepts involving the legitimacy of land ownership are merely cultural constructs like table manners and norms of dress.
Techxodus
By Michael Lind, Tablet California today provides a model for America as a whole,” Peter Leyden, CEO of Reinvent, declared in a TED talk in 2018: In the early 2000s, California faced a similar situation to the one America faces today. Its state politics were severely polarized, and […]
Why I Am Not a Left-Libertarian
By Bryan Caplan, Econ Lib As a radical libertarian, pacifist, champion of open borders, and mortal enemy of Columbus, I seem like an easy convert to left-libertarianism. Proponents like Sheldon Richman and Rod Long are smart and earnest people. Their motives are pure. Still, their innovations are largely […]
The Two Middle Classes
By Joel Kotkin, Quillette Politicians across the Western world like to speak fondly of the “middle class” as if it is one large constituency with common interests and aspirations. But, as Karl Marx observed, the middle class has always been divided by sources of wealth and worldview. Today, […]
“It’s Still A Private Company, Bro!”
By Peter R. Quinones I’ve said it before and it seems I’m going to have to say it again, lolbertarians are going to “it’s a private company, bro” themselves into a boxcar. First, because people are morons, let’s get this out of the way: yes, I know, Nick […]
How The Pentagon Controls Hollywood
Doctoral student, Irami Osei-Frimpong, weighs in reporting alleging that the FBI and DOD have vetted Hollywood films prior to their release.
NBC News Head LITERALLY Sits On Board Of Walmart, Pepsi
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti explain the implications of news that NBC chairman, Cesar Conde, is on the board of Walmart and Pepsi.
Inside Ultra-Wealthy FREAKOUT Over Slightly Higher Taxes
Cut taxes from the bottom up. Saagar Enjeti explains why most of the GOP can’t quit their addiction to the ideology of lower taxes.
Bill Gates Is LYING TO YOU On Vaccine Patent Protection
Krystal Ball details how Bill Gates’ solution to poor nation vaccine distribution protects Pharma profits.
Is Socialism Better Than Capitalism? A Soho Forum Debate
I would hold to a much narrower definition of socialism and capitalism than either of these guys. Capitalism is the historic alliance between state and capital which provides capital with the power to command labor. Socialism is the idea of abolishing market relations, commodification, and the law of […]
The CEO’s critical role in restoring public trust in institutions
Beware of woke capitalism. Fortune, Even before the pandemic hit the U.S. in March 2020, most CEOs would have likely agreed that today’s leadership requires attention to a broader set of stakeholders. But the health crisis forced CEOs to juggle their efforts to support employees, customers, suppliers, communities, […]
Employers know your class status in SEVEN WORDS
Krystal points out that class position has little to do with how individuals vote. Krystal Ball explains how class status has nearly zero correlation to how people vote and how this allows politicians to ignore class concerns.
Mineworkers President: STOP saying just transition because our workers just don’t believe it
President of the United Mine Workers of America, Cecil Roberts, gives his thoughts on calls for the creation of new jobs in Appalachia through tax credits.
Is Bill Gates Turning Into BIGGEST VILLIAN Of Vaccine Distribution?
Team Rising shares their thoughts on Bill Gates’ statements that vaccine recipes should not be shared.
Why GOP Is CHEERING For This Leftist DOJ Appointee
Ryan Grim weighs in on the fight over who will run the antitrust division.
Miners STRIKE In Existential Battle With Private Equity Backed Coal Company
Krystal Ball breaks down the Warrior Met Coal strikes.
Biden To CAVE To Big Pharma On Drug Prices
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss President Biden caving to Big Pharma on negotiating drug prices.
Pharma Execs Are LYING About COVID Vaccine Patent Protection
Seattle City Council member, Kshama Sawant, discusses a resolution that her office will bring forward for a vote in support of over 400 global organizations who are calling on the Biden administration to stop blocking intellectual property waivers.
Dem Rep To INVESTIGATE Why List Of Greediest CEO’s Doesn’t Include More Women
Team Rising reacts to a New York Times’ piece on the American CEO’s who earned the most money during COVID.
Chris Christie Says Capital Gains Hike Is SOCIALISM
As an anarchist, I oppose taxes generally, but unfortunately, these supply-side guys give anti-tax perspectives a bad name. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Chris Christie’s latest comments on President Biden and socialism.
The looming Democrat Civil War
By Joel Kotkin The Democratic Party has always been a loose confederation of outsiders — poor farmers, union members, populists, European immigrants and southern segregationists. As the actor Will Rogers said in 1924: “I am not a member of any organised political party. I am a Democrat.” Yet […]
Interview: Glenn Greenwald, on “Securing Democracy,” Twitter, and the Media Business
By Matt Taibbi “I tend to have a pretty polarizing effect on the discourse,” says the author, in a free-ranging talk about Bolsonaro’s Brazil, his time at The Intercept, and critics who accuse him of being pro-Trump. “That’s what journalism is, you have to inform the public. If […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Professor Richard Wolff
There is a lot of interesting discussion in this episode. Wolff’s ideal system amounts to social democracy plus workers’ capitalism. It’s funny that Kyle and Krystal act like these are new and previously unfamiliar ideas. Wolff doesn’t say anything that I didn’t already know 30 years ago.
This Is America #138: Chauvin Trial Ends, Streets Explode
It’s Going Down On today’s episode we speak with Kieran, President of CWA Local 7250 and long-time organizer in the Minneapolis area about how rank-n-file union members kicked the National Guard out of a union controlled Labor Center building. We talk about the National Guard on the streets […]
REPORT, Department Stores On “Brink Of Extinction”
Krystal Ball reacts to the decline in department stores and breaks down the consequences of their extinction.
Can Biden ACTUALLY Transform America?
Transform into what? Ryan Grim and Saagar Enjeti debate Dems plans for a comprehensive child care program
Poverty SOARS During Last Month Of Pandemic
Class divisions keep widening. Saager Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to new poverty peaks in the pandemic.
Did you hear the one about the anarchist manager?
By Thomas Swann How many anarchists does it take to start a conversation about anarchism in a business school? Perhaps the most appropriate punchline is that such a conversation shouldn’t ever take place at all, never mind the number of participants. And yet just that conversation did take […]
As GOP RAGES Against Big Business, Biden Exploits The Shift
Now that the Democrats, the cultural left, and the majority of the capitalist class are de jour or de facto allies, anti-corporate rhetoric is likely to become much more commonplace on the right. Emily Jashinsky discusses the GOP’s rift with corporate America and explains how Biden is taking […]
Louisiana Workers FORCED To Choose Between Cancer And Jobs
Krystal Ball discusses the risks low wage workers are forced to take in order to maintain their job.
Raytheon Honored As Best Place To Work For LGBTQ People
Krystal Ball and Emily Jashinsky discusses Raytheon’s positive PR amidst President Biden’s plans to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan.
Will Rich Liberals REVOLT Over Biden’s Tax Hikes On The Wealthy?
Krystal Ball and Emily Jashinsky debate how President Biden will go about passing more progressive aspects of the infrastructure package.
How Bill Gates Is Protecting Big Pharma Profits
Journalist, Alexander Zaitchik, discusses Bill Gate’s controversial role in the vaccine process.
True National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer: Report
By Mark Tapscott, Epoch Times America’s national debt now exceeds $123 trillion, according to a new report, or more than four times the official figure of $28 trillion, as calculated by the U.S. Treasury Department at the end of March. Federal spending related to the CCP virus pandemic […]
Housing Prices At RECORD High, Is This A New Bubble?
Senior investigations editor at NPR California, Aaron Glantz, discusses the consequences of corporations buying up neighborhoods.
Bezos CLAIMS He Wants To ‘Do Better’ For Employees After Union Vote
It sounds like he’s getting a little worried. Krystal has a pretty good takedown of Bill Gates in this as well. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Jeff Bezos’ comments following the failed Amazon union vote in Alabama.
Dems CAVE To Manchin, Sinema On Lower Corporate Taxes
I generally agree with their critique of the tax system, but not their solutions. One thing Goofy Gills gets right is the need to reduce or abolish taxes from the bottom up. Saager’s critique of how corporations profit from infrastructure spending sounds almost Carsonian. Better be careful, dude, […]
Shareholder Activism: Woke Capitalism from the Inside
By Robert Stilson, The American Conservative Conservatives are rightly vexed by “woke capitalism,” exasperated at the ways in which big American corporations are increasingly weighing in on sociopolitical issues—invariably, it seems, in favor of the progressive left. Certainly, many businesses are under pressure to do so. Sometimes that […]
Facebook and Instagram Block Users From Sharing NY Post Report on BLM Co-Founder’s Multi-Million-Dollar Property Purchases
The left-wing of the capitalist class circles the wagons. By Katabella Roberts, Epoch Times Facebook and Instagram are censoring users from sharing a New York Post report regarding the luxury homes purchased by Black Lives Matter Co-founder, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, in predominantly white neighborhoods. The article was published on April 10 […]
Biden Reveals Taxing Rich Is OVERWHELMINGLY Popular
Unfortunately, most mainstream discourse of about wealth disparities is limited to “more taxes vs fewer taxes” which is an after-the-fact question that fails to address the causes of extreme wealth disparities generally. Team Rising discusses new polls showing the popularity of taxing the rich.
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