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Capitalism and racism grew up together
By
Gary Engler
| February 9, 2017

Which comes first, racism or the systemic need for racism?

In all the reams of printed and digital discussion about Donald Trump's (attempted) ban on Muslims from seven countries, the murder of six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque and Islamophobia in general, few commentators have mentioned the economic roots of racism.

But the truth is ideas have always been needed to justify treating other people badly in the competition for wealth and power. As long as there have been battles over resources people have objectified and demeaned the Other to provide ideological cover and to motivate their side to victory.

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Canadian marchers push back against Trump; politicians get on his train
By
Karl Nerenberg
| January 24, 2017

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Last week, the scowling man, south of the border, who quite decisively lost the popular vote but nonetheless snookered a victory in his country's Electoral College, said:

"For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost."

And then he added:

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WINGS
WINGS

The hormone replacement scam

December 13, 2016
| Two American women's health experts have another perspective on the claims that big pharma makes about hormone replacement therapy.
Length: 29:06 minutes (39.97 MB)
Mary Poppins and friends
Red threat: Socialist secrets of 'Mary Poppins'
By
Christopher Majka
| November 28, 2016

The Fraser Institute's Jonathan Fortier is up in arms. In an article in The Fraser Forum entitled "Mary Poppins -- song, dance and latent socialism," Fortier maintains himself to have been "struck by the film's latent socialist ideas and its implied attack on bankers and investment." Say what? Mary Poppins?

What could possibly have put Fortier's knickers into such a twist?


Fidelity Fiduciary Bank

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Art and capitalism in Berlin
By
Raluca Bejan
| November 12, 2016

It takes about 15 minutes to walk from Mori-Ôgai Memorial Humboldt University in Mitte, Berlin, to the Hamburger Bahnhof -- Museum für Gegenwart. On Luisenstraße for two minutes, turning left on Charitéstraße and passing through what looks like a green, open-gated community -- the Campus Charité Mitte. The Campus hosts the Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin -- the largest hospital in Europe, the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, and the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité. I walked this route at some point in July. After leaving the grounds of the Charité Campus, it takes about a minute to cross the river on Invalidenstraße and turn right towards Hamburger Bahnoff.

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Fossil capitalism has created a new geological era called the Anthropocene

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Geologists say that humanity's impact on the Earth has been so profound that it's ushered in a whole new, deeply unstable, geological era, which they are calling the Anthropocene.

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Scientists declare new geological epoch, the Anthropocene

September 26, 2016
| Geologists say that humanity's impact on the Earth has been so profound that it's ushered in a whole new, deeply unstable, geological era, which they are calling the Anthropocene.
Length: 22:02 minutes (20.18 MB)
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Feminism has been taken over by capitalism, and it ain't pretty

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

by Andi Zeisler
(PublicAffairs,
2016;
$26.99)

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The world of feminism nowadays is... saturated.

Women are leaning in, #girlbosses are getting that money, period-friendly underwear is readily available, #GirlsCan empower themselves with bombshell lipstick and oh so much more.

But, is this feminism?

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The limits of capitalism

May 9, 2016
| Discussing capitalism, and the idea that our system seems to be based on a faulty belief that we have infinite resources.
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Putting jobs before the climate is making a deal with the devil
By
Gary Engler
| April 29, 2016

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Okay, here's the proposition -- you can have a good job, decent pay, lots of overtime, but only if you give me your grandchildren or maybe your great-grandchildren.

Would you make this deal with the devil?

This is pretty much the choice currently offered workers by the captains of the carbon extraction, transportation and burning industries.

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