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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: World Wars 1 and 2 destroyed many millions of people. The warring nations' employers led armed employees to war. The same employer-employee system keeps bringing "forever wars." Until people everywhere realize its the system that is the problem wars will never end...
#WolffBites: Putin offered Trump several ways to end the Iran war. Trump rejected them. Evidence that war's distraction for the public (away from poor US economy and the Epstein horrors) is what keep's war going?
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#WolffBites: Trump removes sanctions on Russia. Trump's Iran war ups global oil prices so Russia gains as world's largest oil exporter. One common feature of empire decline: how you solve one problem worsens another. How decline happens.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...?
What Is Occurring Is Really WORLD WAR III with @profwolff.bsky.social and #MichaelHudson
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The US-Israel War on Iran Won't Stop American Decline, Wolff Explains Why @profwolff.bsky.social on India Global Left
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#WolffBites: Mega CEO Zuckerberg just bought a $170 million home: 9 bedrooms, 11.5 baths, "secret" library, wellness gym, salon and massage room, jazz lounge, and 60-foot pool. We pay, they play.
www.foxbusiness.com/real-estate/...
Trump’s War Is a Disaster for the Economy and Humanity open.substack.com/pub/democrac... @profwolff.bsky.social
Mamdani’s Encampment Sweeps: The Political & Class Issues
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#WolffBites: Global economic shifts: US tries tariffs to slow its decline, China outcompetes the west. Caught in middle VW profits collapse, plans to lay off 50,000, and cancels planned US plant. The facts accumulate what the west's leaders deny.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
#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"
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#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...
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.
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...
#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.
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#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.
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#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.
