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Randy Steinhauer
Randy Steinhauer (a.k.a. “Radical Randy”) is an Edmonton activist and author of The Edmonton Social Justice/Activist Contact & Resource Handbook.
Recent Parkland Post stories
Born to fail: Neoliberalism and the meltdown
The recent global meltdown revealed the new economic order to be a financial house of cards. This should come as no great shock since the justification underpinning it is itself built on an intellectual house of cards. The only really surprising thing about the crash is that it took so long to happen. The market collapse was not an anomaly but rather a natural consequence—an inevitability contained within the contradictions and absurd premises of the neoliberal capitalism the world's governments have blindly pursued for the last several decades.Global boomerang: The price of greed
Many have considered the crowning achievement of so-called “free-market” neoliberal economics to be the global integration of trade and investment, presented as the best hope for raising the standard of living for the impoverished masses around the world. Nowhere has this been more obvious than in the push for “free-trade” agreements and open investment by international financial institutions.Lefty Liberals?
Conservative biases have confused our use of the term
Barack Obama’s choice of Wall Street insiders for financial advice and his plans for an Afghanistan troop surge should remind us not to conflate "liberal" with "left-wing progressive."Free Market Farce
Our economic system is supposedly underpinned by economist Adam Smith's supply- and-demand principles. The modern incarnation of this philosophy is the corporation, which is relentlessly promoted by our political, economic, and media elites as the embodiment of the free market.top of page