Christian groups have announced that they will form a “ring of prayer” around the Occupy London/St Paul’s protest, after church authorities went ahead with a plan to gain a legal injunction against the protest and have it removed.
Capitalism
Guy Rundle: Rundle: recovery of 2008? What bloody recovery?
The recovery from 2008 may not have in fact occurred, there is no real growth to speak of in the global economy.
The internet v the world part 2: why interconnectedness threatens the powerful
The greater interconnectedness offered by the internet is inherently political. Powerful institutions have long understood that interconnectedness is a threat, but now their capacity to strike back is declining.
My life with no money
For the last 15 months Mark Boyle has not spent a single cent, instead he grows his own food, uses a compost toilet and lives in a caravan he picked up for free. The only thing he misses? A drink at the pub.
Bob Ellis: Guns don’t kill people, people kill nature and nature kills people
When are we going to get our priorities and our tax payer dollars in order? The Haiti earthquake just reiterates that natural disasters are killing more people than terrorism, yet we spend billions on a war against terrorism, argues Bob Ellis.
Former communist countries don’t like capitalism
Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell and communism in Eastern Europe crashed down with it. Except, capitalism and democracy are less popular now in Russia, Czech Republic and East Germany than they were in 1991. What, greed isn’t good?
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: the cage match
It’s bound to be one of the most controversial of the season’s cinematic offerings: Michael Moore’s Capitalism: a love story. But is it a muddied low-brow critique or the seminal turning point in the popular appreciation of a system past decay? You decide!
Capitalism cage match: Jeff Sparrow
Michael Moore aims his new movie Capitalism: A Love Story simultaneously at the head and the heart. Therein lies its biggest problem, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Capitalism cage match: Chris Berg
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story “takes aim” at the capitalist system, as a few dozen supportive reviewers have mindlessly written. But that’s a tough metaphor to uphold. It’s easy to aim when you don’t care what you hit. Moore is interested in Big-C Capitalism. So after a few stories of families having their homes […]
Guy Rundle: Rundle: A vision of the future, written by the Left. Part III
Would a transformed post-capitalist economic and social system abolish money, markets and property? Of course not. Will that future be anything like the communism envisaged in the early Marx, or Lenin’s utopian State and Revolution? Emphatically not. But what hopes are there?
PODCAST: Naomi Klein chats to Michael Moore on “capitalist madness”
It’s a left-wing wet dream. Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, interviews Moore about his latest film, tea parties — and how rage over the financial crisis might finally bubble over.
Guy Rundle: The past and future of the Left
The ‘Left’ that has emerged as victorious is one whose ambitions are defined and delimited by the political culture of capitalism. So what’s actually left? asks Guy Rundle.
How capitalism financed Michael Moore’s Capitalism
Michael Moore’s new film, Capitalism: a love story rips into the free-market and its money-grubbing ways. How delightfully ironic, then, that Goldman Sachs funded the film’s executive producers to the tune of $1b. We wonder who will get the last laugh, though?
Michael Moore: “Newspapers slit their own throats”
Film-maker Michael Moore has weighed-in on the death of the American daily newspaper industry: capitalism is the killer. Oh, and he’s just released a film about capitalism. Funny that. Still, a witty and worthwhile analysis.
Hollywood vs capitalism
Two new films — Oliver Stone’s portrayal of Venezuelan Pres Hugo Chavez as a “champion of the poor” and Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story — take on the system that funds them to make films.
The musical history of the mp3
This decade will go down in music history, not for the tunes created but for the technological changes. Mp3s have reaffirmed that the music industry is about more than just capitalism, writes Eric Harvey.
What was Left after the global economic collapse?
The GFC should have been the greatest moment ever for the Left. But why hasn’t a viable political and economic alternative emerged? Did the Left miss their big chance?
1989: the end of history?
Twenty years since the end of the Cold War and the world is now dealing with the fallout of global financial disaster. Is capitalism still the ultimate victor in great ideological battle?
My kingdom for a Choco Pie
North Koreans have developed a taste for South Korea’s most popular bikkie, and it threatens to undermine their whole political structure. Ruth Brown investigates.
Michael Moore’s next target: capitalism
Because the Right don’t quite hate him enough yet, film maker Michael Moore is planning to take on America’s entire economic structure in his next documentary.
Nobel laureates discuss capitalism’s future
Capitalism can be still be saved, if the opinion of these three Nobel-Prize winning economists is any indication.
Death of capitalism pronounced too soon
If you thought the credit crisis has killed capitalism, think again. It just became stronger. By expat Australian lawyer, David Howarth.
RATED RUDE The Death of Capitalism
Capitalism is dying…
Briefly Business: Company directors, Craig McDermott, Capitalism
Australian Institute of Company Directors needs some directions … China’s war on nature … Property to tumble.
