@profwolff
Professor of Economics Emeritus University of Massachusetts Founder/Director Democracy At Work #WeCanDoBetterThanCapitalism Follow: https://bsky.app/profile/democracyatwork.bsky.social website: www.RDWolff.com website: www.DemocracyAtWork.info
#WolffBites: Starmer rejects Trump's war on Iran, Conservative Badenoch waffles, Reform's Farage now rejects it too. By their rejection of Trump and his "leadership" UK people challenge their leaders' slavish pro-Americanism. Macron, Merz beware!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#WolffBites: In honor of International Women's Day a special shout-out to two heroic fighters: Deb Haaland, running for New Mexico governor, and Gisele Pelicot fighting sex abuse, sexism and misogyny in France
#WolffBites: Now that the US has invaded distant Iran with heavy attacks by missiles, bombing, etc. will we hear less about Russia invading its neighbor Ukraine?
Wolff Responds: "Iran!: Another War Likely Lost"
democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
#WolffBites: US LOST 72,000 jobs in February, 2026, Second worst employment report in the last year (which had many bad reports). Hardly the "great" economy Trump claims.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/e...
#WolffBites: Gasoline prices in US rise 11% over last week as Trump's war on Iran forces and enables oil companies to raise prices. Rising gasoline prices then do same for all other prices of products needing oil or gas as inputs to their production.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b...
A quick note to my MAGA acquaintance...
hartmannreport.com/p/dear-maga-...
When Trump boasts that he will accept only Iran's "unconditional surrender," he gives Iranians an incentive to fight longer and harder. It empties Trump's earlier offers to negotiate. Now, to negotiate, Trump will have first to undo his demand for unconditional surrender. What a mess.
#WolffBites: Kristi Noem got caught by US Congress members in unethical and likely illegal funneling of taxpayer funds to political cronies. How many of the cabinet have done something similar? Will they be caught and fired too? And if so, when?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a....
#WolffBites: Goldman Sachs says China's 2026 growth will be 4.8% as compared to UK (1.4%), Germany (1.1%) and USA (2.5%). Hard fact: Western capitalist economies keep growing much more slowly than China's rate of growth.
www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art...
#WolffBites: Latest Gallup poll shows for FIRST time more Americans sympathize with Palestine than with Israel. Result when US colleges/universities punish/repress pro-Palestinian students and faculty.
To Be Or Not To Be?: Austerity vs. Socialism
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Great article by Michael Hudson - US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/02/t...
#WolffBites: UN expert warns that global economy needs a reset to stop pandering to the "frivolous appetites" of the super rich rather than serving ordinary people. Now watch how little attention US mainstream media devote to this story.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#WolffBites: Half of US teachers quit within first 5 years. Reasons given: low pay, overwork, no respect. Very bad for economy now and for the future. US gov't ignores this problem 100%. Pretends it is not there.
www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/c...
Your tax dollars just killed children…
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#WolffBites: War on Iran for "regime change" violates UN charter and international law. On the same day, Trump "terminates" collective bargaining contracts US gov't signed with thousands of federal workers. Declining empire's desperate moves.
apnews.com/article/trea...
#WolffBites: UK's Starmer promises (like France's Macron and Germany's Merz) to "fight politically against the extremes of left and right." Such empty babble covers the hard reality they all face: they are increasingly losing to those extremes.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
#WolffBites: US capitalism's deeply unjust inequality extends even to Social Security retirement benefits: 7% of those benefits go to the poorest 20% of Americans whereas the richest 20% of Americans get 29% of the retirement benefits.
thehill.com/opinion/fina...
#WolffBites: A split US gov't (President vs Supreme Court) + $200 billion in tariff revenue in question + a $600 billion increase in defense (war) expenditures pending + record US gov't debt = really bad conditions for starting a war in Iran.
Wolff Responds: "No Level Playing Field for the U.S. Taxpayer" Dated February 25, 2026.
democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...
#WolffBites: The Supreme Court said Trump's tariffs were unconstitutional. And the execution of people in boats in the Caribbean and Pacific without lawyers, courts, juries of peers, judges? And declaring them "combatants" when no state of war exists between the US and their countries (unknown)?
Good Morning friends There is still time to register "Marxian Class Analysis" with myself and @shahramazhar.bsky.social organized by @democracyatwork.bsky.social #LeftForum
www.eventbrite.com/e/marxian-cl...
I talked "Meatballs 4," "Repossessed" and "Up Your Alley" with their very funny director/writer, Bob Logan.
We talk "Meatballs 4" first.
Going to eat a meatball pizza to celebrate!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOvB...
Available now! @democracyatwork.bsky.social @profwolff.bsky.social
#WolffBites: Two US teachers' unions with over $27 billion in pension funds invested with Apollo Management are concerned about Apollo's work with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction for soliciting prostitution. Investigations called for.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/21/b...
#WolffBites: How deeply racism penetrated into British culture during centuries of Britain's colonial oppression of "others" was shown for the world to hear and see at the BAFTA's event the other night.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/22/e...
#WolffBites: China/Russia have immense Asian Russia to "develop economically." US and Europe fight over who gets immense Greenland and Canada. As global capitalism breaks into 3 big blocs, they regress to pre-World War 1- type competition leading toward wars.
