Tag: Socialism

• What’s Left Out.1: Black Power Media on Paul Robeson

  I’m starting a new series of posts here to express appreciation for and link to pieces published online by some of my favorite sources of news, information and analysis. The title refers to the difference between these sources and what is conventionally understood as “The News,” ie, mainstream outlets like NPR and the New York…

  jhd123

  October 30, 2022

  Current Events, Film, Music, Politics, Series of posts, What’s Left Out

  Black Panther Party, Black Power Media, Dr. Jared Ball, Gerald Horne, Internal colonialism theory, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kwame Ture, New York Times, NPR, Paul Robeson, Richard Nixon, Snoop Dogg, Socialism, What’s Left Out

• Corporate Welfare.2: Subsidizing Sallie Mae

  Continuing this series on the publicly funded nature of so called private enterprise in this country…. Sometimes subsidies know how to disguise themselves.  Blackwater’s defense contracts bring them direct cash payments for no-bid contracts.  But student lenders like Sallie Mae get their government cheese in the form of regulations on interest rates.  In a double…

  jhd123

  July 3, 2013

  Debt, Economics, Politics, Series of posts

  Barack Obama, Capitalism, David Graeber, Doug Henwood, Economics, Elizabeth Warren, Left media, michael hudson, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins, Socialism, Spain, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus