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Heintz, James The Grim State of the States Publication Date: 7/10/2009

Critics of capitalism often argue that any form of capitalism would eventually devolve into corporatism, due to the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. A permutation of this term is corporate globalism. John Ralston Saul argues that most Western societies are best described as corporatist states, run by a small elite of professional and interest groups, that exclude political participation from the citizenry. Corporatism has been supported from various proponents, including: absolutists, conservatives, fascists, progressives, reactionaries, socialists and theologians. In the United States, economic corporatism involving capital-labour cooperation was influential in the New Deal economic program of the United States in the 1930s as well as in Fordism and Keynesianism.[36] In the post-World War II reconstruction period in Europe, corporatism was favoured by Christian democrats, national conservatives, and social democrats in opposition to liberal capitalism.[37] This type of corporatism faded but revived again in the 1960s and 1970s as "neo-corporatism" in response to the new economic threat of stagflation.[38] Neo-corporatism favoured economic tripartism which involved strong and centralized labour unions, employers' unions, and governments that cooperated as "social partners" to negotiate and manage a national economy.[39]

Common to all definitions is the attempt to mobilize entire populations in support of the official state ideology, and the intolerance of activities which are not directed towards the goals of the state, entailing repression or state control of business, labour unions, churches or political parties.

"The public bank concept is gaining ground on the state level, attracting proponents across the political spectrum. "

Obama the realist. Not the pragmatist. Certainly not the idealist. Realism as a doctrine: The principal purpose of U.S. foreign policy SHOULD be to manage relations between states, rather than to alter the nature of states. U.S. foreign policy shouldn't be in the business of nation-building.

"It is by now commonplace to observe that democracy is in a weakened state in the United States. But could it be that the U.S. is no longer a democracy at all, if it ever truly was?"

"New analysis of 40-year-old recording of Kent State shootings reveals that Ohio Guard was given an order to prepare to fire"

Kagan may not be a giant shill for state power; but she'll be easier to confirm if progressives don't know this « http://bit.ly/bWqOdy

Hamm, Patrick | Stuckler, David | King, Lawrence The Governance Grenade: Mass Privatization, State Capacity and Economic Growth in Post-communist Countries Publication Date: 5/12/2010

"Ash, Michael | Boyce, James | Chang, Grace | Scoggins, Justin | Pastor, Manuel Justice in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America's Industries and Companies to Our States, Cities, and Neighborhoods Publication Date: 5/5/2009"

"Pollin, Robert | Wicks-Lim, Jeannette | Garrett-Peltier, Heidi Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States Publication Date: 6/18/2009"

Wicks-Lim, Jeannette Creating Decent Jobs in the United States Publication Date: 9/3/2009

The economic crisis and the resurgence of class conflict in the United States

"In his 2010 State of the Union address, President Obama called for a "non-security" discretionary spending freeze to help bring down the deficit. "

If anyone still believes we must drill, baby, drill offshore -- aside from Bill Kristol, that is, who wants to sink wells even closer to precious coastal wetlands -- then perhaps it is time to consider again the potential benefits of nationalization. After all, there is one country that has established an unrivaled record for environmental safety while exploiting its offshore petroleum reserves. That would be Norway, which created the company now known as Statoil Hydro as a fully state-owned entity and still controls nearly two-thirds of the company's "privatized" shares.

"We the people have given away our sovereign money-creating power to private, for-profit lending institutions, which have used it to siphon wealth from the productive economy. Some states are moving to take that power back. "

The finance industry has effectively captured the U.S. government-a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets...Recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that's blocking essential reform.