Carson v. de Rugy.
Carson: It’s only “state capitalism” when other countries do it.
Carson: The global state system is a gang of thieves attempting to out-con each other.
Carson says don’t worry about SOPA; make the Copyright Nazis worry.
Keith Taylor: We don’t need “the job creators.”
David D’Amato: The stain on Bain is mainly in one vein.
Carson reads the writing on the IP wall.
Just reading this column could get you waterboarded at Gitmo.
David D’Amato thinks big.
Kevin Carson: The 1% needs us; we don’t need them.
Kevin warns us to be on our guard against the Beast of Redmond.
The Espinel emails show we can’t reform the state — we must break it.
David S. D’Amato on the monopolization and oppression of phony “free trade.”
A clear, consistent message underlying the Occupation of Wall Street over the past couple weeks says that the greed of the big banks is a far-reaching social problem. Standing in as representatives of an entire corporate system, an economy characterized by mercenary avarice and a fundamental lack of justice and humanity, the banks have also…
Google made headlines again last week, this time countering criticisms that the company has achieved “monopoly power” versus its competitors, putting consumers at risk. The company’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, faced questioning by the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. In his testimony, responding to questions from US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), Schmidt…
In a recent Christian Science Monitor op-ed (“Inequality dragon rears its head. Again.” August 26), Jared Bernstein cites “new GDP data suggest[ing] that inequality is on the rise again.” Bernstein points out that “[c]orporate profits as a share of GDP has surpassed its prerecession high while compensation has shrunk,” evidence of “two very different economies”…
Kevin Carson calls BS on Rick Perry’s fake “small government” propaganda
Although right-wingers like to present the issue as one of preventing the state from redistributing wealth downward, the real issue is one of stopping the state from redistributing wealth upward.
In a recent Guardian commentary, Timothy Snyder opines that “those who benefit from the Tea Party are more like British lords than American rebels.” Snyder argues that Tea Partiers are “rightwing anarchist[s]” whose “mantras of low taxation and small government have become the way to avoid discussing the challenges of globalisation.” Snyder is more right…
David D’Amato on how the state makes health care more expensive.