Michael Ostrolenk: Joe Trippi on How Technology is Killing Crony Capitalism and How a Libertarian President Looms Large

Joe Trippi: Technology is killing cronies, and there will be a libertarian president. And sooner than you think. (Video) By Nick Sorrentino on February 21, 2014 Trippi is an old time Democratic consultant who is very smart and his analysis here is interesting. This is a video well worth watching for those who care about …

4th Media: Predatory Capitalism Today

1,400 Sue General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi for Fukushima Disaster We’ve previously noted that General Electric should be held partially responsible for the Fukushima reactor because General Electric knew that its reactors were unsafe: 5 of the 6 nuclear reactors at Fukushima are General Electric Mark 1 reactors. GE knew decades ago that the design was faulty. Economics …

Jean Lievens: Chris Skinner on Role of Banks in Social Capitalism

What role for banks in a sharing economy of social capitalism? Chris Skinner I was struck yesterday, as I presented my themes around Digital Bank at a conference, that there’s one area I’ve discussed for a long time, but not blogged about much in-depth. That is the collision of community with commerce via the sharing …

Berto Jongman: Climate Summit Model Broken, Capitalism Criminal, Government Toxic, Public Must Learn to Think and Act for the Public

Climate Summit Trap: Capitalism’s March toward Global Collapse An Essay by Harald Welzer The Warsaw conference demonstrated that the “climate summit” model is broken and, more importantly, that capitalism itself is driving us to the brink. Protests are not the solution — it’s time to fight the system using its own weapons. The municipal utility …

Jean Lievens: The Sharing Economy – Sharing Space with Capitalism

The Sharing Economy Isn’t Quite a Kick to Capitalism’s Crotch Joshua Brustein Bloomberg Businessweek, 18 October 2013 I was invited to a potluck dinner on Wednesday to meet a bunch of strangers and discuss the importance of sharing. Well, kind of. Our hosts were looking to bolster the so-called sharing economy, which, depending on who …

Tom Atlee: A Difference of View — Top Down Control of Unstable Bottom, or Bottom-Up Renaissance of Capitalism and Democracy?

The Guardian UK reports that the US and other militaries are preparing for major domestic disorder stimulated by climate, energy, and economic crises. NSA surveillance is part of that.  This shoring up of power-over from the top calls for our rapid development of power-with from below. Ramping up the two big Powers The report below …