BARBARA MACLEAN—It used to be that delivery drivers used their own intelligence and knowledge of traffic patterns to determine their routes. Today Amazon delivery center determines the routes and orders the drivers to drive them within time frames which allows no time for a full lunch break, morning and afternoon breaks. No bathrooms are provided by Amazon while these drivers are on the road. Their wages are low, they have no health benefits and are often accused of stealing when driving in rich white neighborhoods. All the more reason for Amazon workers to be unionized!
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Pushback with Aaron Maté Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Veteran US diplomat Chas Freeman says that despite talk of a New Cold War between the US and China, the US in reality is reacting aggressively to a rising Chinese power whose economic gains threaten US global supremacy. Freeman, who served in top State Department positions and as Richard Nixon’s chief interpreter on his historic 1972 visit to China, discusses the state of US-China relations and flashpoints such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the [putative] repression of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
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Richard Wolff: Curing the capitalist disease
14 minutes readRichard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City. He wrote Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism and founded www.democracyatwork.info, a non-profit advocacy organization of the same name that promotes democratic workplaces as a key path to a stronger, democratic economic system.
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How to define the word “reality”? Something like this: The state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. To say the least, this is a philosophical definition. Let’s throw in politics now. Is there one political reality? Can and should one be enforced? Would this, in the end, produce a Ministry of Truth?
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It’s this system that is now tumbling down – much to the despair of the usual suspects. Diesen notes how, “in the past, pushing Russia into Asia would relegate Russia to economic obscurity and eliminate its status as a European power.” But now, with the center of geoeconomic gravity shifting to China and East Asia, it’s a whole new ball game.
PEPE ESCOBAR—The 24/7 US demonization of Russia-China, coupled with the “unhealthy situation” mentality of the EU minions, only helps to drive Russia closer and closer to China exactly at the juncture where the West’s two centuries-only world dominance, as Andre Gunder Frank conclusively proved , is coming to an end.