Jan Ritch-Frel / Fair ObserverOct 18, 2024
Economic historian Michael Hudson on the origins of timekeeping, the long-lost practice of forgiving debt and his collaborations with the late David Graeber. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
Valerie Vande Panne / Independent Media InstituteJan 15, 2019
The proposal has found support from progressives and conservatives alike. But spending more money can't solve capitalism's ills. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJul 26, 2018
As writer Ben Judah argues, the Occupy movement, Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders changed this generation's thinking, and made a come-from-behind win like that of New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez possible. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 6, 2015
Salon contributor Elias Isquith asked former university academic, author and activist David Graeber what made him want to write a book about bureaucracy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutJan 14, 2014
We now live under a form of casino capitalism that revels in deception, kills the radical imagination, depoliticizes the American public and promulgates what might be called disimagination factories and punishing machines. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 13, 2013
American intellectuals have had plenty of cause for despair in these Roman decades of international and domestic imperialism against different ways of thought and life. At an April launch party in San Francisco for the 22nd volume of the countercultural magazine The Baffler, anthropologist and contributor David Graeber explained some of how this happened and praised a nationwide grass-roots effort to reverse the trend. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 31, 2013
Debt has been weaponized "pretty much continually" for the last four or five millennia by "people who have access to the ability to make credit," the anthropologist, Occupy activist and anarchist said on the "Keiser Report" TV show in late April. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 22, 2013
"It seems unlikely," anthropologist and author David Graeber writes. "After all, as I and many others have long argued, austerity was never really an economic policy: ultimately, it was always about morality." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 30, 2012
In the seventh episode of “The World Tomorrow,” Julian Assange and key Occupy figures from both sides of the Atlantic met in a hollowed-out Deutsche Bank building to talk about the movement’s inception and the challenges it has faced so far. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 19, 2011
Protesters continued to occupy Manhattan's financial district Monday. "Democracy Now!" has footage of the demonstration and interviews with activists, including a conversation with distinguished anthropologist, author and protest-goer David Graeber. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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