Bill Gates Sees ‘China’s rise’ as ‘Huge Win For the World’
At a forum in Australia on Monday the 23rd, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described China’s rise to a leading global economy as a “huge win for the world.” According to…
Ralph Nader: The Progenitor of Inequalities – Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings
By Ralph Nader The word “inequality” is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the…
It Was the Workers Who Brought Us Democracy, and It Will Be the Workers Who Establish a Deeper Democracy Yet
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the…
When the People Have Nothing More to Eat, They Will Eat the Rich
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 8 January, large crowds of people dressed in colours of the Brazilian flag descended on the country’s capital, Brasília. They…
BlackRock Says We’re All Doomed. It’s Being Optimistic
The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse.
McKinsey’s Addiction Corporations
By Thomas Klikauer / CounterPunch Almost 30 years ago, tobacco CEOs were forced to answer questions – under oath. For the first time, corporate bosses had to admit that tobacco…
Ukraine Prepares To Give Free Rein to Property Developers
Critics fear a new planning law will hand power to property developers and put Ukraine’s historic buildings at risk.
Markets and Technology Won’t Solve Climate Crisis. We Must End Capitalism.
It’s the accumulation of capital that’s destroying the Earth System as a place of human habitability.
The Economic Realities We Face at the End of 2022
By Richard Wolff / CounterPunch Economies around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022. Global capitalism had been brewing conflicts among the major powers (the United…
Big Tech Has Rigged the Game Against Artists
In their new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism,” Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow examine Big Tech’s takeover of the creative labor market.
Gabor Maté: Who’s Crazy, You or Your Nation?
Dr. Gabor Maté’s new book strips back the realities of the neoliberal system that has been plaguing the health of US and the world citizens.
Meta Hops on Layoff Bandwagon, Zuckerberg Says ‘I Got This Wrong’
More than 11,000 Meta employees were laid off Wednesday morning issuing another blow to the big tech job market.
The Truth About Cargill: The Most Evil Company
By Lee Camp / Behind The Headlines The biggest supervillains in the world are not human, they’re corporations. On this episode of The Most Censored News with Lee Camp, Cargill…
How Corporations ‘Get Away With Murder’ To Inflate Prices on Rent, Food and Electricity
Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking…
Nomi Prins: How the Federal Reserve and Allied Central Bankers Wrote the Obituary for Competitive Capitalism
Dr. Nomi Prins examines the games the wealthy elites play while the 99% suffer.