Neoliberalism

Waiting for Copernicus

John Feffer | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Neoliberalism, Repsol YPF, Argentina, Washington Consensus, Greece, François Hollande, France, World News
John Feffer

It's happening in Buenos Aires. It's happening in Paris and in Athens. It's even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that prevailed for the last three decades.

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OWS and the Class Struggle Revised

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Ows, Paul Krugman, New York City, Occupy Wall Street, May Day, Neoliberalism, Marxism, May Day Protests, Business News
Robert Teitelman

OWS takes the traditional Marxist notion of class, simplifies it and inflates it into two cartoons -- the 99 percent and the 1 percent. In the process, it manages to ignore about 150 years of Marxist discussion and debate.

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The Doublespeak of "Freedom"

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Collective Society, Politics, Individualism, Freedom, Mitt Romney, Neoliberalism, Social Inequality, Individualistic Society, Wealth Inequality, National Rifle Association, Immigration, Latino Studies Arizona, Nra, Gun Laws, Latino Studies, Education Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Warren J. Blumenfeld

I am, quite frankly, concerned by Romney and other advocates of neoliberalist principles because they are based on individualistic, self-centered "freedoms," while opposing general responsibility for others and for a collective cooperative society.

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Chaos and Cholera: Haiti's Message to the Tea Party (and the Rest of Us)

Mark Schuller | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: U.S. Presidential Election, Haiti-Emergency Response, 2012 Republican Primary, Romney, Haiti-Earthquake, Santorum, Obamacare, Republic of Ngos, Haiti, Ngos, Bill Clinton, Neoliberalism, Disaster, Privatization, Cholera, Ngoization, Nongovernmental Organizations, Tea Party, World News
Mark Schuller

This Tuesday, April 10, Rick Santorum, who had given Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney a serious run for his money, bowed out of the race, leaving th...

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Scott Hocking's Garden of the Gods

Vince Carducci | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Myth, Psychogeography, Scott Hocking, Raymond Williams, Packard Automotive Plant, Detroit Art, Neoliberalism, Situationist International, Derive, Garden of the Gods, Post-Fordism, Fordism, Detroit Around Town, Video, Detroit News
Vince Carducci

Scott Hocking's Garden of the Gods can be read as a dystopian reflection of the effects of spectacle society.

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In All-India General Strike, Workers Go All Out Against Neoliberalism

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Labor, Strike, Workers, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, Globalization, India, Asia, Development, Union, India Strike, India General Strike, World News
Michelle Chen

India's economic ascent seems like it should be the envy of the world's richest nations. Except Indian workers just gave the boosters of global capitalism a few million second thoughts.

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Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle

Michelle Chen | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Latinos, Mexican Immigrants, Ethnic Studies, Education, Youth, Tucson, Neoliberalism, sb1070, Schools, Arizona, Education News
Michelle Chen

Analyzing problems in the real world and coming up with solutions. If officials think that's anathema to a sound education, they've given civil rights advocates the most principled argument yet for why ethnic studies is so vital for the next generation of leaders.

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What Mayor Bloomberg, Economists Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street

Eric Peterson | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Movement, Bloomberg Occupy Wall Street, Urban Policy, Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Neoliberalism, Urban Justice, New York News
Eric Peterson

While some may utilize appealing rhetoric and claim to work in our name, it is clear that no one else is going to create the city we imagine for us, this is our job.

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Protest Planet

Juan Cole | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Post-Ww2, Egypt Protests, Libya, Youth Protest, Arab Spring, Tunisia, Activism, Tahrir Square, Occupy Wall Street, Neoliberalism, Hosni Mubarak, Zuccotti Park, Cold War, Politics News
Juan Cole

From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended.

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Is There a Big Idea in Occupy Movements?

Vaios Papanagnou | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Phillip Blond, Economic Crisis, Occupy Oakland, Conservatism, Big Society, Plan B, Red Tory, Recession, Occupy Movement, Indignados, UK Conservative Party, Liberalism, Occupy Wall Street, Neoliberalism, Ha-Joon Chang, Financial Crisis, Free Market, Syntagma Square, Puerta Del Sol, Joseph Stieglitz, Inequality, Politics News
Vaios Papanagnou

The epoch that started in 2008 is defined by a single worry. Equally defining is the visible form that this angst takes. Millions of people in the Wes...

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The Neoliberal Wars

David Isenberg | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Neoliberalism, Private Military Security Contractors, LOGCAP Contract, Business News
David Isenberg

Military outsourcing and privatization is just one aspect of neoliberalism. Like all other processes, neoliberalism is not static.

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Occupy (Neoliberal) Boston

Alex Green | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Neoliberalism, Boston, Occupy Boston, Mayor Menino, Occupy Wall Street, Free Speech, Occupy Boston Protest, Boston Protest, Occupy Boston Arrests, Occupy Movement, Politics News
Alex Green

It is clear that the Occupy movement is more about the seizure of the few remaining urban public spaces in America, than it is a movement of Androids, Tweets, and iPhones.

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Chilean Students Show the Way

Gary Anderson | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Neoliberalism, Chile, Educational Reform, Student Protests, Chile Protests, Student Protests Chile, Chile Student Protests, Neoliberalism Chile, Chile Students, World News
Gary Anderson

Chilean students are experimenting with new forms of protest, such as marathon runs around congress, kiss-ins, and a 3,000-student performance of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" to imply that the education system in Chile has become a zombie.

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New Management Wanted for the Italian Job: Somalia

Karl Muth | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Neoliberalism, Somalia, Southern Somalia Famine, Economics, Anarchy, Refugees, Africa, Horn of Africa, Business News
Karl Muth

What if a company bought Somalia? How would things change? Would things improve? Privatizing Somalia would better-align the country's interests with those of international investors.

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Nicholas Kristof's Boneheaded "Paean to Economists"

Mark Engler | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Neoliberalism, Economists, Nicholas Kristof, Philanthrocapitalism, Dean Baker, Education, Economics, Capitalism, Social Development, Recession, Impact News
Mark Engler

The injustices of unfettered capitalism are not an accident -- they are a product of a system whose academic advocates have a lot to answer for. Economists have done enough of late. Let's hold the paeans.

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Trade, Islands, and Diversity

Carl Pope | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Chiquita, Dominica, Vanilla, World Trade Organization, Monoculture, Wto, Neoliberalism, Bananas, Green News
Carl Pope

If you are over 50 and think that bananas tasted better when you were young, you are right. Bananas are not the only example of how neo-liberal trade rules are bad news for small places.

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You're Not Google's Customer -- You're the Product: Antitrust in a Web 2.0 World

Nathan Newman | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Internet, Search Engines, Economics, Antitrust, Neoliberalism, Regulation, Business, Privacy, Google, Technology News
Nathan Newman

People deserve to be back in control of their online experience, not merely a data point in a product marketed to advertisers. But there is no "market" incentive for this to happen. Only regulation can bring it about.

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Capital's War Against WikiLeaks

Mark Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wikileaks, Globalization, Military Industrial Complex, Cold War, Neoliberalism, Capitalism, Politics News
Mark Levine

When your Swiss banker throws you overboard, you know you've made some very powerful enemies. Long famed for hiding money for everyone from Nazis and...

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Haiti's Political and Economic Earthquake "Made in the USA"

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Bill Clinton, Poverty, International Monetary Fund, Papa Doc Duvalier, World Bank, Haiti Poverty, Dick Cheney, Economic Imperialism, Coup D'etat, George H.W. Bush, Embargo, Haiti, Neoliberalism, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, US and World Bank, Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier, Haiti Aid, Militants, World Economic Forum, World News
Eric Michael Johnson

(updated below - Update II - Update III) This morning, as political and financial leaders from around the world convene at the World Economic Forum, ...

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"Blowback" and "Baseworld": Remembering Chalmers Johnson

Mark Engler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asian Tigers, Chalmers Johnson, Baseworld, Military Spending, Neoliberalism, State Capitalism, Naomi Wolf, Blowback, Politics News
Mark Engler

On November 20, Chalmers Johnson, scholar of East Asian development and critic of American empire, died at age seventy-nine.

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The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Chalmers Johnson, National Security Affairs, Susan Glasser, US Foreign Policy, UC Berkeley, Mark Tilton, Marie Anchordoguy, China, Blowback, Japan, Japan Policy Research Institute, UC San Diego, Okinawa, E.B. Keehn, American Empire, Neoliberalism, Sheila Johnson, David Arase, Foreign Policy, Developmental State, Miti, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Chalmers Johnson led the way in understanding the dynamics of how states manipulated their policy conditions and environments to speed up economic growth. Johnson passed away Saturday; He was 79.

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Haitian Farmers: Growing Strength to Grow Food

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Monsanto, Food, Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Farming, Haiti, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti Aid, Foreign Aid, Property Rights, Neoliberalism, Port-Au-Prince, World News
Beverly Bell

These farmers are focused principally on building food sovereignty, the right of a people to define their own food and agricultural systems, premised on growing domestically for domestic consumption.

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The Political Consequences of Stagnation

Walden Bello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Elections, Economy, Barack Obama, Neoliberalism, Keynesian Economics, Neoclassical Economic Principles, Stagnation, Elections 2010, Business News
Walden Bello

Obama's nascent steps toward Keynesian interventionism have been compromised by the absence of an inspiring alternative to the predominant neoliberal paradigm.

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The Great Education Myth & the Neoliberal Bait-and-Switch

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neoliberalism, Free Trade, Education, Wall Street, Politics News
David Sirota

30 years into the neoliberal experiment, the Great Recession is exposing the flaws of the Washington Consensus. But rather than admit any mistakes, neoliberals now defend themselves with yet more bait-and-switch sophistry.

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Putting the Brakes on the Neoliberal Race to the Bottom

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Warfare, Austerity, Neoliberalism, Labor Unions, Politics News
Ismael Hossein-zadeh

While the harrowing economic hardship that started in late 2007 and early 2008 rages on, and countless people in the United States, Europe and other p...

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