On this episode of David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey talks about the economic uncertainty Americans are experiencing: job loss, indebtedness, inflation. The stock market is flourishing, but only the top 10-20% of the US population have investments and are benefitting from the boom. The majority of Americans are left with little to no support and very little access to food and basic services. Harvey predicts the situation will worsen in the next months. Washington’s political gridlock means no real change can be expected.
Economics
Labour Heartlands – Larry Elliot: How the EU has failed British voters and why it and neoliberalism hasn’t been good for working people.
Since we stopped linking to the Guardian, there is no one we have missed more than Larry Elliot. He is one of the best informed critics of the EU.
Fake News
Chris Hedges, Jeff Gerth: The failure of the US press in the Trump-Russia saga
Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is […]
National Politics
Renegade Inc. – George Galloway, Lindsey German: “Sir” Tony Blair – No Thanks Ma’am!
There are just three words that make any right-thinking British person convulse. Those words are Sir, Tony, Blair. To the consternation of many, it was recently announced that the former Labour Prime Minister and war […]
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