The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, measures the risk of social unrest in 150 countries around the world. It places
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Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America | Alternet
Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business
Are we all screwed if we refuse to stand up and push back?
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the
Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares
What kind of society emerges when it is governed by the market-driven assumption that the only value that matters is exchange value, when the common
The Myth of Welfare Queens and the Reality of Racism
Fiscal conservative politicians including some Democrats like Bill Clinton have presided over a massive and systematic redistribution of wealth into the 1 percent since the
“Democracy”, Crisis, and Control
Ted Asregadoo speaks with U.C. Santa Barbara sociology professor, William I. Robinson, about the crisis of global capitalism and social democratic ways to address the
