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Dec 24, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Richard D. Wolff
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the US’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants and to stop drug trafficking. But tariffs are simply the name of one kind of tax (on imported goods and services). So the GOP becomes both anti-tax and pro-tax.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
smirkingchimp.com | Richard D. Wolff
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants, and to stop drug traffic. But tariffs are simply the name of one kind of tax (on imported goods and services). So the GOP becomes both anti-tax and pro-tax.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
savageminds.substack.com | Richard D. Wolff
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic and social problems afflicting national working classes have been “managed”—at least temporarily—by scapegoating immigrants as if they were responsible for those problems. Leaders on the left fear that many among their supporters are vulnerable to that scapegoating.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Richard D. Wolff |Nandita R. Garud
AbstractThe human gut microbiome is composed of a highly diverse consortia of species which are continually evolving within and across hosts. The ability to identify adaptations common to many human gut microbiomes would not only reveal shared selection pressures across hosts, but also key drivers of functional differentiation of the microbiome that may affect community structure and host traits.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
transcend.org | Richard D. Wolff
Richard Wolff | Community Church of Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service 12 Nov 2024The relative economic decline of the US and its allies (G7) versus China and its allies (BRICS) leads to: realignment of global trade and investment, changed global politics and alliances, and basic cultural shifts inside and among nations. The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Richard D. Wolff
And The Rise Of China And BRICS. TranscriptThis transcript was produced by an automated transcription service. Please refer to the audio interview to ensure accuracy. I want to get into the talk I have for you today, but I want to begin by reminding you of a famous saying. It goes like this, “please don’t shoot the messenger just because you don’t like the message.” I am not responsible for the conditions that we face as a nation today, but I am not going to sugar coat what the situation is.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
scheerpost.com | Richard D. Wolff
By Richard Wolff / Community Church of BostonThis transcript was produced by an automated transcription service. Please refer to the audio interview to ensure accuracy. I want to get into the talk I have for you today, but I want to begin by reminding you of a famous saying. It goes like this, “please don’t shoot the messenger just because you don’t like the message.” I am not responsible for the conditions that we face as a nation today, but I am not going to sugar coat what the situation is.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
aliran.com | Richard D. Wolff
Follow us on our Malay and English WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Tiktok and Youtube channels. By Richard D WolffAn old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing. Such total growth enables all who get a distributed share of that wealth – even those with the smallest shares – to experience at least some increase.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | Richard D. Wolff
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing. Such total growth enables all who get a distributed share of that wealth—even those with the smallest shares—to experience at least some increase. The rich with the biggest shares can grab most of the growth so long as some is provided to those with small shares.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
smirkingchimp.com | Richard D. Wolff
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing. Such total growth enables all who get a distributed share of that wealth—even those with the smallest shares—to experience at least some increase. The rich with the biggest shares can grab most of the growth so long as some is provided to those with small shares.
