In the second part (part one — https://bit.ly/3Id00GC) of our discussion with Pat Byrne on the outcomes of the Summit for Democracy, which was held in early January, we discuss how American and other Western...
Perhaps ever since C. Wright Mills, we know the elite recognizes one another. It does so from the self-assigned but also lofty position they have been allowed to occupy in society. In general, the elite accepts...
Maria Cernat continues the discussion with Ben Burgis about his latest book: "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns. A Critique of the Contemporary Left." They explore questions related to the fact that most online cancellations...
In 2018, the new social movement of the Yellow Vests or Gilets Janues emerged in France as a populist grassroots protests. It began on 17th November 2018 and ended 1st May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting COVID-19...
Long before Karl Marx and Jenet Yellen, some might have suspected that there are three elements that define the core of capitalism. These are, of course, capital. But capitalism is also a system that is defined...
By June 2021, the world of work had changed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. We have seen about 180 million Coronavirus cases and almost four million deaths. The Coronavirus pandemic has not only caused death and misery...
In the year 2006, none other than Warren E. Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway  ̶ currently valued at $80bn ̶ said in a New York Times interview, There’s class warfare, all right, but...
Because it's the last Sunday of the month, the hosts of "On the Barricades" will discuss their April thumbs ups and thumbs downs. Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski will address the situation in East Ukraine...
Donald Trump's politics became an –ism when he and his disciples converted what Trump does into a distinctive doctrine or cause. In 2016, The Hill argued that Trumpism has four ingredients: celebrity; nativism that reaches...
As in many places where the ideology of neoliberalism holds sway, universities have been contaminated with the self-invented business imperatives of neoliberalism. For the better part of the last forty years, the conversion of universities...