Lloyd Blankfein, former head of Goldman Sachs, was one of the people responsible for the global financial crisis of 2008. Note the Russophobia, a cynical gambit Lloyd shares in common with other establishment Democrats.
Category Archives: Structural Violence
Pie (225/310/425/485)
Not a huge fan of network news in general but this is worth looking at.
Speculators
Monsters, cont. (415)
Contradiction (415)
These are both ineluctable consequences of this system.
The 8th Circle of Hell
This prick just returned to D.C. after surgery we paid for in order to repeal Obamacare.
Measures (415)
Here’s a brief article that offers a number of ways to measure the relative success of neoliberalism versus social democracy. Worth a look.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/ted-cruz-bernie-sanders-cnn-inequality-scandinavia/
Capital Sucks
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
— Karl Marx, Capital v. 1
$5
I just got this book in the mail today, so I’m not even done with the introduction. But I had to pass this along because it almost defies comprehension:
“If there were a single indicator to measure the status of Black women in the United States, it would be the difference in median wealth for single Black women compared to single white women. A 2010 study found that the median wealth for a single white woman was $42,600 compared to the surreal median of $5 for single Black women.”
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Send in the Clowns (HUM415)
More than 350 arrested this morning at anti-austerity protests outside the € billion European Central Bank building in Frankfurt. We’ll hear about it because some police cars were burned.
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