Link to an essay by Frances Fox Piven excerpted from the book Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA (2014):
“Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries”
Links
Jack Rasmus – A Reply to Thom Hartmann’s Interview of Richard Wolff
Link to an article by Jack Rasmus. It’s hard to tell what this is in “reply” to, as neither Hartmann nor Wolff are mentioned following the title. Regardless, it’s an interesting, if brief, statement of his theory:
Loïc Wacquant – Crafting the Neoliberal State
Link to an article on the substitution of prisons for social welfare programs in the USA by Loïc Wacquant, author of Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), which came out around the same time as Michelle Alexander’s similar (but more well-known) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010).
“Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity”
William Blum – Yankee Blowback
Link to an article by William Blum that puts the recently reported influx of Latin American immigrants to the USA in context:
Don Fitz – How Green is the ‘Green New Deal’?
Interesting article from Don Fitz critiquing various aspects of so-called “green new deal” proposals:
Alfred McCoy – Surveillance and Scandal
Link to an article by Alfred McCoy:
“Surveillance and Scandal: Time-Tested Weapons for U.S. Global Power”
Alan Nasser – The Tendency to Privatize
Link to an article from Alan Nasser on privatization from a decade ago that still seems to hold today:
“I Am the Real Nick Cave” Profile
“I Am the Real Nick Cave” by John Wray in NYT
Global Capitalism Is In the Midst of Its Most Severe Crisis
Interview with Prof. William I. Robinson: