Law & Disorder Radio: The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails To Save Us From Pandemics or Itself

Prof. Wolff joins Law & Disorder Radio to discuss his new book "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails To Save Us From Pandemics or Itself"

COVID-19 did not cause the current economic devastation to billions of people around the world. It triggered the crisis. It illuminated the inherent instability in the capitalist system itself. Capitalism exacerbates unemployment, inequality, racism, and patriarchy and threatens the health and safety of workers and our communities.

 

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Salon: Capitalism is the reason COVID-19 is ravaging America

Salon interviews Dr. Richard D. Wolff, whose new book "The Sickness is the System" explores capitalism's flaws

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Economic Update: Capitalism's Anxiety About the State

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On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on how capitalism gets in the way of fighting Covid-19, systemic racism and Covid-19, why Europe...READ MORE


David Pakman Show: Did Capitalism Fail Us During Coronavirus

Richard Wolff joins the David Pakman Show to discuss the major themes of his new book, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself.

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The Hill: Does COVID Crash Show Capitalism Has Finally Failed?

Richard Wolff joins The Hill's Rising to discuss his new book, "The Sickness In The System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself."

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Thom Hartmann Program: Can the Economy Recover from Trump?

Prof. Wolff joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss how long is it going to take to recover from the damage that Trump has done to the economy and to the US.

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Worker Cooperatives and the Movement for Socialism

The Claudia Jones School for Political Education and ONE DC host Prof. Richard D. Wolff, Dr. Camila Piñeiro Harnecker, and Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard discussing worker cooperatives and the movement for socialism.

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Economic Update: Growing Left Public Voices

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On the first half of this week's episode, Prof. Wolff discusses the following: graduate student strike at University of Michigan, Johnson & Johnson charged in...READ MORE


The World According to Jesse: Economic Fallout from Covid-19

Richard Wolff joins The World According to Jesse to discuss the main themes of his new book, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself and how the notion of going back to "normal" is "somewhere just barely this side of crazy. It's 'normal' that got us into this situation."

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Cross Talk: “K-Shaped” Recovery?

As the cultural war consumes American politics during this election cycle, the economy remains in a precarious state. Millions of people live on the margins. The only constant for them is insecurity. Economists debate an eventual recovery. They speak of a U, V and a L. But is it in fact a "K-shaped" recovery? A permanent underclass? Richard Wolff joins Cross Talk to discuss.

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The Zero Hour: Capitalism is in Terminal Decline

Prof Wolff joins RJ Eskow on The Zero Hour to explain why he thinks capitalism is in terminal decline.

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The Big Picture RT: Economic Tipping Point 2020

Prof. Wolff joins The Big Picture RT to talk about blazing wildfires, raging hurricanes, and sweeping unemployment re-shaping the lives of millions of Americans, all while continuing to deal with the ongoing pandemic. 

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By Any Means Necessary: Biden "Totally Out of Step" With Movement As Breonna's Killers Walk

Prof. Wolff joins By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean and Jacquie to discuss his new book “The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics Or Itself” and why a look at how the rest of the world are handling the coronavirus demonstrates the utter failure of our elites to address the public health crisis.

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By Any Means Necessary: America’s ‘Failed Economic System’ Solely Protects Rich During Pandemic

Dr. Richard Wolff, an economist and professor at the New School in New York, told Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary that his new book, “The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself,” shows how the US response to COVID-19 demonstrates the utter failure of the country’s elites to address public health crises.

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Thom Hartmann: The Economics of Police Brutality and Racism

Prof Wolff joins the Thom Hartmann Program Police to discuss how brutality and racism has cost the US trillions of dollars in the economy. Why does it keep happening if racism and police brutality are such a drain on the economy? 

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Boom Bust: Trading Blows at the UN

In the lead up to the election in the United States, transpacific tensions have flared up at the United Nations General Assembly. Richard Wolff joins Boom Bust to discuss the charged comments and whether the tension will remain after the upcoming US presidential race.

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Rising Up With Sonali: When Capitalism Fails To Save Us From Pandemics Or Itself

Prof Wolff joins Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar to discuss his new book, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails To Save Us From Pandemics Or Itself. If our economic and political system was so fragile that a pandemic of the sort that government officials knew was coming was enough to throw the nation into disarray, then perhaps the problem is the system and not the virus. 

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Politics Done Right: Capitalism caused sickness, not COVID.

Richard Wolff joins Egberto Willies on Politics Done Right to discuss his new book, The Sickness is the System.

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Economic Update: How We Get Beyond Capitalism

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On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the 'Social Progress Index" and US capitalism's decline; how most young Americans...READ MORE


Why US capitalism failed COVID-19 test

As the country’s death toll approaches 200,000 deaths, Professor Richard Wolff joins The News with Rick Sanchez to discuss whether something inherent in the country’s economic system prevents the US from effectively tackling the pandemic.

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MOATS: Scapegoating China

Richard Wolff joins George Galloway on the Mother of All Talk Shows (MOATS) to talk about the scapegoating of China by the US.

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Marxist America. Revolution in the minds

Richard D. Wolff joins Константин Сёмин to talk about Marxism in the United States.

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Mexie: COVID-19 and the End of Capitalism

Prof. Wolff joins Mexie to talk about the pandemic and the economic crash that has proven to be especially devastating for the majority of working class Americans.

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Letters & Politics: COVID-19 Economic Fallout

Professor Wolff joins Mitch Jeserich on Letters & Politics to talk about the economic fallout of the Covid-19 crisis.

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On Contact: USA political and economic collapse

Richard D. Wolff joins On Contact with Chris Hedges to discuss  the economic and political collapse of the American empire.

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