US economy
Coronavirus calls US’ ‘world’s richest country’ bluff: Will it cling to...
by Helen Buyniski
16 Mar, 2020
The coronavirus containment measures the US has (belatedly, reluctantly) taken are revealing enormous fissures in its first-world facade, from legions...
Corona Debt Jubilee
By Michael Hudson
March 22 2020
Cross posted from the Washington Post.
Michael Hudson, author of “… and forgive them their debts” and “Killing the Host,” is...
Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire...
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
October 24, 2019
“If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that...
Don’t forget to file your taxes, America, because Amazon paid ZERO...
Amazon ranks as the most valuable public company in the world, and is the second-largest employer in the United States. Yet, when it comes...
Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating...
By Evan Blake
17 November 2018
The ongoing wildfires in California, including the most deadly and destructive in the state’s history, are a horrific exposure...
Why China Is Running Circles Around America
By Ellen Brown
Feb 26, 2018
“One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking involving highways, pipelines, transmission lines, ports, power...
Moody’s to Ford: We are the bosses
Moody’s downgrades Ford’s credit forecast as investors demand deep cuts
By Tom Hall
10 February 2018
The credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded Ford’s rating forecast...
Stiglitz: A cultural Genocide in Greece
Joseph Stiglitz discusses ‘value crisis’ at Davos, Greek crisis
By NIKO EFSTATHIOU
05.02.2018
Joseph Stiglitz is a Davos veteran. The renowned economist and winner of the...
The Tax Bill Just Opened a New Front in the Class...
Republicans just sold out the poor and middle class to enrich the wealthy elite. Next year is an opportunity to take back what’s rightfully...
Genocide by Prescription: The ‘Natural History’ of the Declining White Working...
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya, MD
Introduction: The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ -...