China bankrolling of America’s budget deficits marks US economic decline

Whoever might be responsible for the carnage of 9/11, its outcome may be the terminal decline of America’s economic, financial and even military power. Before 9/11, the United States was enjoying a budget surplus and a growing economy and its political and military clouts... Full story

Dear slaves

Excuse me, not “slaves.” How could I be so callously imprecise? For slavery has long been outlawed. I’d call you simply employees, but seeing how you aren’t likely employees of mine, that too would seem presumptuous. The public relations specialists will figure it all out later down the editing... Full story

Ephemeralization: a weapon against capital

In his Third Address to the International Workingmen’s Association on the Paris Commune in 1871, Karl Marx argued that the cooperative organization of production, if it expanded to include the entire economy, would amount to communism. Full story

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