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The Art of Political Lying

November 27, 2020

With idle tales this fills our empty ears;The next reports what from the first he hears;The rolling fictions grow in strength and size,Each author adding to the former lies.Here vain credulity, with n…

Capitalism is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only to be Robbed of Our Future

October 31, 2020

Opinion

Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political, economic and social mess. That word is “…

Modern Monetary Theory and the Crisis of Capitalism: Part Two

October 29, 2020

Books

This is the second part of an article. Part one is available here. Historically, gold emerged as the money commodity. Over the past century and more, fiat money issued by the state has come to replace…

The Fall of the Western Model

October 24, 2020

Opinion

The crisis of capitalism Historically, the crisis of the West began with the crisis of American capitalism in 1929. At that time, the majority of books and newspapers claimed that the concentration of…

Can There Be More Than One Idea of Freedom in the 21st Century?

October 21, 2020

Opinion

There is one thing that every revolutionary and ideologue on Earth, past and present, has fought for over the centuries – freedom. There are few things (if any) as widely accepted as universally “good…

Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime

October 17, 2020

Opinion

“The intellectuals cast a veil over the dictatorial character of bourgeois democracy not least by presenting democracy as the absolute opposite of fascism, not as just another natural phase of it wher…

America Is Finished

September 29, 2020

Opinion

About twenty years ago The Atlantic published a piece by Jeffrey Tayler named “Russia is finished” subtitled “The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrele…

Capitalism the Real Disease

September 29, 2020

Opinion

It’s hard not to agree with American professor Richard Wolff when he says the real disease facing the world is not Covid-19 but rather the failed economics of capitalism. Wolff’s analysis is more coge…