The economic question of the day has suddenly become: ‘Is the global economy about to slide into another recession?’
Jack Rasmus interviews Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer HealthCare (aka Medicare for All), on the recently re-energized and growing national movement for Single Payer-National Healthcare
Global capitalism is growing progressively less interested in making things for profit than it is in generating forms of money capital as profit
Aauto, aircraft manufacturing, and railroads are examined as examples of continuing failure of Union organizing, bargaining, and political strategy
Guests Zeese & Flowers argue the US Empire’s increasing aggressiveness and violence in recent decades are indications of its growing weakness, not strength, as challenges to it mount worldwide
The trade union movement in the USA today is on the road to nowhere. The decline, in progress for more than three decades, is now accelerating
On the Causes of Investment Decline in the US Economy
The imminent end of QE, and the approaching rise in rates, will have a particularly severe impact on emerging market economies
Jack Rasmus welcomes guest, Ali Issa, of the War Resisters League, to discuss the growing militarization of police forces in the USA today
Jack Rasmus invites guest, Chris Silvera, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 808 in New York City, to discuss the current struggle of New York City’s Long Island railroad (LIRR) workers for decent wages and benefits and their possible strike on July 20
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