boris kagarlitsky
GRITtv: If Capitalism Has Been Discredited, Where are the Alternatives?
The city of Pittsburgh has called up 4,000 highly-trained federal police officers to support local security forces in the days leading up to the G20 summit that begins on Wednesday. The delegates will be protected by a National Guard combat unit recently back from Iraq. On the eve of the G20 summit and during a major financial crisis, what is the future of capitalism? Nation columnist and Counterpunch co-editor Alexander Cockburn, William Tabb, associate editor of the Monthly Review, and Boris Kagarlitsky, director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, talk alternatives.
Email this pageGRITtv: September 22, 2009
The banks are booming on public cash, and Wall Street bonuses are soaring again while workers’ wages flat line. Is this the future of capitalism? Are we living it right now? Or is there another way? Another future? Grittv's Laura Flanders moderates a panel about the crisis now with Counterpunch co-editor and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn and CUNY professor and author David Harvey.
