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The housing crisis in the US is at the level of a calamity: Researchers examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner, who makes $71,214 a year, according to ATTOM. Homes “unaffordable” … Read more
As a result of the pandemic and how it affected the economy, the working people were able to get some concessions from the system in the form of aid or salary increases. This led to their life standards getting higher temporarily. Temporarily, because in the past few years, the free market did everything to take … Read more
Socialism always fails, but, for some reason, every single time it fails, it requires US sanctions, economic warfare, ‘freedom fighters’ or outright invasion to fail. The U.S. Declares Economic War Against Venezuela US sanctions are killing Venezuelans, says former UN rapporteur Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates … Read more
Well… We can start by remembering him as the person who turned Cuba from a casino and whorehouse for US rich (especially Mafia) to a modern society in which ordinary citizens have social services and guarantees no less than the ones in Scandinavian countries despite total economic blockade causing lack of resources and consumer items … Read more
It is actually very, very simple: Venezuela has world’s biggest oil reserves. Oil reserves in Venezuela – Wikipedia Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are out) Chavez had had nationalized these oil reserves back in 2007, taking it over from Exxon, a US … Read more
Assume for a second you are the president of a Socialist country and you refuse US access to your economic resources. Try to imagine what will happen next. Or don’t… Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are out) Every single time, the same … Read more
Lets make it as simple as it can be: Scandinavian countries: Social Democracies Cuba: State Capitalism combined with a good measure of Social Welfare/security China: State Capitalism combined with less measure of Social Welfare/Security combined with some limited form of regulated Capitalism Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get … Read more
Actually, the word socialist carries a negative connotation only in US political spectrum. There is no such hysteria in Eu or elsewhere in the world. Many major parties along with numerous parties in power in governments have the word socialist in their name, and claim to be adhering to socialist principles. The word socialist carries … Read more
Well… If we consider the immense economic strangulation they have been subjected to by the illegal US (and naturally international) trade blockade, never ending CIA terrorist attacks against their mainland (not talking about Bay of Pigs), ever-impending threat of invasion, ceaseless attempts at overthrowing them from the inside (latest being State Dept’s Cuban twitter project … Read more
They were, if you ask them back in 1930s. If you were a socialist. If you were a socialist, they were socialists too. If you were a nationalist, hey, they were nationalists too! Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when a new posts are out) If you … Read more