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fromApaonline
21 hours ago

Punk's Original Values in the Age of Idiocy ("AI")

Using AI chatbots undermines the conscience-driven act of creating personal, accountable words and diminishes authentic human connection and moral responsibility.
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

The Value of Mental Health in Western Culture

Contemporary Western culture strongly prefers locating the problems that bring people to psychotherapy within the individual. When we conceptualize mental health as an individual problem without adequately considering the social and cultural components, it becomes easy to reduce mental health to a product that can be marketed and sold. This simplified version of mental health becomes a commodity of neoliberalism, a philosophy that emphasizes capitalism, free markets, individual rights, and private property rights, amongst other values (Harvey, 2005).
Mental health
Europe politics
fromIndependent
1 week ago

From Gemma O'Doherty to Syria, Catherine Connolly isn't fond of hard questions - and she doesn't like some of the easy ones either

Catherine Connolly supports European unity while opposing militarization and neoliberalism.
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Pushing Military Spending and Neoliberal Austerity, French PM Emulates Trump

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by U.S. President Donald Trump is the most sweeping legislation in modern U.S. history, implementing huge tax cuts for the rich and massive cuts to the social safety net.
Europe politics
fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
4 years ago

To Support Democracy, Foundations Must Practice Democracy - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Many foundations preaching democracy externally are practicing anti-democratic ideology internally by enforcing top-down decision-making and power consolidation. Funders must shift power to communities.
Social justice
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

What Makes Us Free?

Neoliberalism is a political ideology that has profoundly influenced global economics and individual lives based on free market principles.
Right-wing politics
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

The World Wolfgang Streeck Wants

Neoliberal globalization undermines national governance and social democracy, necessitating a reassertion of state sovereignty to restore democratic practice.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Against Identity by Alexander Douglas review a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession

The heightened salience of identity in modern political discourse suggests an internalisation of the neoliberal view, reducing identities to consumer preferences.
Social justice
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Brooks: Globalism hasn't led to the carnage Trump claims

The era between the start of the Clinton administration and the end of the Obama one was not a libertarian/globalist free-for-all; it was a period of balance.
Right-wing politics
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromTruthout
3 months ago

3 Years Into War, Ukrainian Leftists Fight for Labor Rights Under Martial Law

Sotsialnyi Rukh remains committed to leftist activism despite martial law and a challenging political environment in Ukraine.
fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
3 months ago

As Neoliberalism Crashes, What Comes Next? - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

We should not let the follies of Trump's tariffs overshadow the follies of the gung-ho globalization that preceded them. So said the award-winning economist James K. Boyce in a recent interview. In 2022, the most recent year that data is available, the US trade deficit totaled $971 billion or 3.77 percent of the GDP. The last US trade surplus was in 1975.
Social justice
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

Will the 'Neoliberalism' Debate Ever End?

Bidenomics, while aiming to reshape economic policy, faced backlash as working-class voters turned away from Democrats in the 2024 elections.
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

A YIMBY Theory of Power

Critics view 'abundance' as a technocratic approach lacking political depth, akin to previous neoliberal ideologies.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Donald Trump, beware this is what a global liberal fightback looks like | Timothy Garton Ash

Liberalism must focus on dispersing and controlling power, creating a countervailing force against the rise of nationalist populism and the authoritarian assertions of major powers.
US politics
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