To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, what serves the class in power is viewed as the natural order and common sense, and what doesn’t is blasphemy.
It's no Marxist critique of class power--would that it were--but Matt Stoller's Goliath, aimed at moving the Democratic Party off dead center, slams all the right enemies in urging the resuscitating of the anti-monopoly tradition of the 20th century
This year, thankfully, there are multiple movies worth watching, either in theaters or online. Here are a handful: The Report. Dark Waters. Queen & Slim. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. After Parkland.
Mark Ruffalo stars as an attorney who goes after DuPont for dumping toxic wastes in West Virginia. But more than a simple "superhero triumphs" docudrama, Dark Waters is a dark tale of the human consequences of corporate power for everyone it touches.
How changes to California’s Proposition 13 could reduce inequality.
The reasons for major flows of migration to Europe actually come from... Europe itself. Those leaving war zones—Syria and Afghanistan in West Asia... also Eritrea and Libya—come in expected numbers fleeing bombs that are often produced in Europe.
In actuality, USAID has been a taxpayer-supported program for neocolonial exploiters requiring long-term protection at public expense.
HBO's Succession peeled back the layers of the all-powerful Roy family, a Murdoch-like media empire built by despicable, ruthless people, and what it showed us was more putrid and awful than we ever could have imagined.
A company showered by media love and political largesse despite its horrible record.
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