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Read the post in English here. By DEE AYROSO
Paglalakbay na naantala, salamat sa kapitalista
Kapitalismo rin ang dahilan kung bakit hindi pinapansin ang reklamo ng mga naagrabyadong pasahero. Walang pakialam ang mga negosyante sa naantalang iskedyul o maging sa buhay o kamatayang sitwasyon (kung mayroon man) ng mga pasahero. Para sa kanilang basta-basta na lang itinatakda ang pagbabago sa iskedyul ng biyahe ng mga pasahero nila, sapat na ang tokenistang paghingi ng paumanhin. Tahimik na lang sila sa kanilang pagkamal ng milyon-milyong kita (o baka naman bilyon-bilyon!).
Why a communist threat will make the world a better place
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino A specter is badly needed today, the specter of communism. It is not enough to expose the evils of capitalism; we must offer and revive a leftwing alternative. To borrow a few words from a philosopher, we have already interpreted capitalism in various ways – the point however is to change…
It’s the 21st century and you are still afraid of the Left?
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com According to some intellectuals and their disciples, it is foolish to join the Left or become a Leftist in the 21st century. They sarcastically remind activists that the Berlin Wall already fell in 1989 and it was followed by the disintegration of Soviet Russia in 1991. In response, we should…
The Greatest Covert Operation Ever: The Politics of Terror as the Business of Terror
Douglas Valentine Global Research www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20830 Posted by Bulatlat.com The politics of terror are the greatest covert operation ever. In explaining why, I’ll begin by defining some terms, because, when discussing the covert op called “the politics of terror,” words and their management are all important. How are politics and terror actually defined: how are these…
Morales: ‘The Central Enemy of Mother Earth is Capitalism’
Bolivian President Blames Capitalism for Global Warming By ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE Commondreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat.com COCHABAMBA, Bolivia – Bolivian President Evo Morales said capitalism is to blame for global warming and the accelerated deterioration of the planetary ecosystem in a speech today opening an international conference on climate change and the “rights of Mother…
Bernie Madoff
Yes, he stole $65 billion from some already quite-wealthy people. I know that’s upsetting to them because rich guys like Bernie are not supposed to be stealing from their own kind. Crime, thievery, looting – that’s what happens on the other side of town. The rules of the money game on Park Avenue and Wall…
Greed at the Heart of Capitalism
Capitalism is built and thrives on, in fact requires and rewards greed–the more excessive the better. By greed we mean the relentless drive for the most profit–wealth appropriated from the labor of others–with the least scruples, in order to reinvest and gain even more profit in a continuing spiral of thievery and rapacity or, plainly…
The Global Financial Crisis and its Implications for Workers of the World
As the US falls into recession, the rest of the global economy is being sucked downwards with it. The collapse of credit instruments originating in the U.S. is also weakening the financial balance sheets of banks and other overseas holders of these investments, affecting not just the banking sector but also stock markets abroad. Banks…
On the Global Economic and Financial Crisis
BY IBON FOUNDATION* INTERNATIONAL The deep problems of the imperialist-dominated world capitalist system are in very sharp focus today. The majority of humanity has long suffered unremitting poverty and exploitation – but the people are being pushed into even greater difficulties by the current episode of intense economic and financial crisis which is feared to…