Social Welfare Institutions

The link below is to this article I found very interesting.  It actually deals with what we were discussing in class about how democracy might be a good system, but it isn’t implemented as should be.  Being a possible cause as to why democracy does not work.  Also this article highlights the issue of privatization…I would like to […]

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This documentary, produced by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck, was about how the Republican Majority leader of the state of Texas attempted to sell out Congress. “The majority leader is a partisan position in a legislative body”[1]. Tom Delay took advantage of this position to do what he pleased. The first thing he did was […]

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According to http://www.businessethics.ca/greenwashing/ - Greenwashing is defined as “a pejorative term derived from the term ‘whitewashing,’ was coined by environmental activists to describe efforts by corporations to portray themselves as environmentally responsible in order to mask environmental wrongdoings. The term ‘greenwashing’ was originally confined to describing misleading instances of environmental advertising, but as corporations’ efforts […]

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So in class we talked about the connection between overproduction and overconsumption - if we make too much junk, then we better make sure that we can convince people to buy too much stuff.  Do you think that’s whats going on with this new economic stimulus package that the congress just passed?
Here is an article […]

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 80 …. January 31, 2008
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Putting the U.S. Economic Crisis in Perspective
Leo Panitch
It is time to take stock. The centrality of the American economy to the
capitalist world — which now literally does encompass the whole world –
has spread the financial […]

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