Tag Archives: neoliberalism

Consequences of the Tea Party and the Search for Truth

Posted on October 1, 2025 by greg

Big Oil and Big Tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to take over the GOP. Charles and David Koch were key figures, using their wealth to fund anti-regulation thinktanks and organizations like Americans for Prosperity to promote the Tea Party’s … Continue reading →

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The Plutocracy and Big Money: the Cost of Money in Politics

Posted on December 1, 2024 by greg

Billionaires do not hesitate to present their ideology as interpretation of truth. Hedge fund billionaire Bob Mercer and his family spent millions in GAI (Government Accountability Institute), Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 campaign to get Trump elected. Hillary … Continue reading →

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Politics of Fear: Identifying the Need for Change

Posted on October 23, 2024 by greg

Fear is not what’s driving Americans to support Trump—it is, instead, how many justify their support. Continue reading →

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Revenge of the Autocrats: The Battle Over Future Freedom

Posted on July 15, 2024 by greg

The term “collective narcissism” was first used by Theodore Adorno to describe the sentiment that gave support to Nazi rule in Germany in the 1930s. Continue reading →

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The Path to Equitable Energy Transition

Posted on November 1, 2023 by greg

In the 19th century Bentham recognized the exploitive character of the capitalist relationship. Inequality and inequity are not interchangeable. Inequity is unfair, avoidable differences arising from poor governance, corruption, or cultural exclusion. It is the result of human failure giving … Continue reading →

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Impact of Marginalization On the Social Determinants of Health

Posted on July 15, 2023 by greg

Oxford reference defines marginalization as a spatial metaphor for a process of social exclusion in which individuals or groups are relegated to the fringes of a society, being denied economic, political, and/or symbolic power and pushed towards being ‘outsiders’. Marginalized … Continue reading →

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How to Respond to Monopolies Today

Posted on May 15, 2023 by greg

Since the beginning of the Republic, Americans have used antimonopoly policy not only to preserve market competition, but to preserve the economic opportunity of the individual citizen and to guarantee that power and property would not become concentrated in the … Continue reading →

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How to Address Inequities in the Era Woke Capitalism

Posted on May 1, 2023 by greg

Social justice as a concept arose in the early 19th century during the Industrial Revolution and subsequent civil revolutions throughout Europe, which aimed to create more egalitarian societies and remedy capitalistic exploitation of human labor. Social justice refers to a … Continue reading →

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The Wakeup Call for Everyone to Assemble on Public Streets

Posted on October 20, 2020 by greg

The pandemic is a wake-up call that markets do not regulate themselves. Overall, neoliberalism failed to deliver what was promised and led to disappointing results on many accounts. It became clear that marketization does not always translate into a better … Continue reading →

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Fear and Uncertainty: the Foundation of Political Power Today

Posted on February 1, 2020 by greg

It is the fear of the nation state as a democratic force that underpins the neoliberal project. In the 21st century the myth of the market hinges on the illusion of a supposedly natural order in the economic realm. For … Continue reading →

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