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By definition, capitalism is: An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production (industry, banks, technology), where through the process of market competition, production occurs for private profit — if something cannot be sold for a profit it is not produced. In practice, private ownership has evolved into giant corporations, which monopolize production, markets, and government via campaign contributions, corporate lobbying (often legalized bribery) and promising po...

The Common Welfare Economy provides an economic systemic alternative to the free market as well as to the centrally planned economy, a completely different way and partly also a synthesis from both major historical concepts....

The crisis is 30 years old, not three years old. The causes of the crisis should be tracked down in the real goods-producing economy, not in the financial markets. The wildly proliferating financial markets did not drag goods-producing industry to the abyss. Rather these financial markets were kep alive up to the collapse of the speculative bubble by credit-financed demand. The financial crisis changes into a state debt crisis....

What do the protestors want? A solution to the jobs crisis, corporate money out of politics, fairer tax rates, and policies that work for 99% of Americans instead of the 1% at the top....

Peace and resistance are part of our nature as antibodies are part of our bodies. Community centers and soft power are like treasures in the field forgotten by Rambo/Have Gun Will Travel USA. One world where many worlds fit and where everyone has a place is the Zapatista vision. Viva Occupy Wall Street! Viva Occupy K-Street!...

All should oppose new Santa Cruz library model, which cuts library positions and service....

Last night while I was watching MSNBC...

The crisis began in the US where the government became heavily indebted after September 11, 2001 in the war against terror and where property owners, banks and hedge funds long lived openly on credit. Now banks and hedge und unhinge whole states. The German government was laughed at when it prohibited short-selling in 2010....

Thom Hartmann speaks on "Let's keep feudalism where it belongs - in school textbooks." Mary Robinson speaks on "The War on Terror was a Mistake."...

The state was extorted by the banks. Bailing out the banks was regarded as without alternative. Disadvantaged population groups bear the consequences of a protection of the creditors and an extreme public indebtedness.. Rating agencies should become public institutions and system-relevant banks dismantled.. Growth- and stability funds should be established as the credit-givers of last resort....