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Arts & Culture
Commentary
Is creativity overrated? On the arts in Newfoundland and Labrador
Rhea Rollmann
August 8, 2018
# capitalism
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Breaking the cycle of exploitation
Even when times are bad, capitalist states pursue policies that benefit capitalist profit.
Sean Burton
April 27, 2016
Uncategorized
Inequality, neoliberalism, and the unmaking of the middle class
Nowadays middle class values largely conform to the neoliberal ideology that has dominated economic discourse for the past 35 years. In light of our current…
Marilyn Reid
February 27, 2016
News
Working toward “ecological conversion”
MUN professor takes aim at consumer capitalism for its role in the ecological and climate crises, draws inspiration from Pope Francis in leading a local…
Justin Brake
February 17, 2016
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Why you need to know about the TPP
Prominent thinkers are speaking out against it and pro-democracy groups are calling for proper public consultations. But is our government listening?
Marilyn Reid
January 29, 2016
Letters
We will never have better than we demand
"All is well for western profiteers when their media and politicians can get us quibbling among ourselves over jobs and who gets a better pension."
admin
December 27, 2015
The Good Life
“Time is not money”: Homestead Economics (Pt. 1)
Are you caught up in the rat race? The principles of homestead economics might just be your way out.
Steve McBride
November 13, 2015
News
Neoliberalism is destroying Canada: Former NDP leader
Ed Finn, Newfoundland's first NDP leader, sat down with The Independent to discuss the biggest challenge facing Canada today -- the one nobody's talking about…
Justin Brake
October 14, 2015
Gadfly
The trouble with charity
Giving and generosity may reduce the burden of immediate suffering and desperation, but if we're serious about finding long term solutions we can begin by…
Robin Whitaker
July 18, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
Trade treaties bloom, sovereignty wilts
The federal government is engaged in five major "free trade agreements" that threaten the degree of control Canadians have over their land, resources, freedom and…
Marilyn Reid
June 18, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
Players, absentees and spectators in the CETA ambush
Who supports the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and why? Who might have opposed it, but hasn’t? Are there prospects for stopping it?
Marilyn Reid
March 24, 2014
Cutting through the spin on CETA
CETA “not about trade”
In the first of this 5-part series: What the North American Free Trade Agreement has taught us, and the implications of another treaty based on…
Marilyn Reid
February 17, 2014
Commentary
Sleeping through trade agreements, waking up to corporate empire
May 11 is World Fair Trade Day, a time to talk about trade injustice and Canada's waning control over its own sovereignty.
Marilyn Reid
May 11, 2013
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