Global capitalism, far from being only an economic phenomenon, affects and influences how we think, including what and how we think about the past. Max Haiven reveals how neoliberal-era initiatives frame human cooperation and collective action; he also emphasizes the importance of what he calls "commoning memory."

Two decades into the internet revolution, what's the state of a medium that was supposed to create new, perhaps utopian, relationships between people around the world? Why is it not dominated by collaborative nonprofit efforts like Wikipedia? Media critic Robert McChesney describes how capitalist interests have managed to enclose the non-commercial promise of the internet -- and argues that it doesn't have to be so. He also considers the state of online journalism. (Encore presentation.)

What if workers at a firm democratically decided how the work is to be done and where the profits should go? Worker co-ops already exist, of course, and many have been quite successful. So how much of a challenge does the cooperative form of organization pose to the capitalist status quo? Ian Seda-Irizarry talks about the strengths and limitations of the cooperative model.

Is your 401(k) plan a personal, individual matter, or is it in fact deeply political, rooted in ideological choices contrary to values of community and solidarity? James Russell talks about the politics of retirement savings and about the rise of what he calls a retirement-industrial complex. Also, Muriel Maffre discusses Igor Stravinsky's antiwar Faustian fable The Soldier's Tale.

Martin Hart-Landsberg points out that free trade agreements, such as the one the US is poised to conclude with South Korea, are about much more than trade -- they expand the power of big corporations, strip governments of their ability to regulate them, and fuel capitalism's destructive tendencies. According to Hart-Landsberg, the Korea-US trade deal would also fuel the already-disastrous financialization of the US economy.

Two decades into the internet revolution, what's the state of a medium that was supposed to create new, perhaps utopian, relationships between people around the world? Why is it not dominated by collaborative, nonprofit efforts like Wikipedia? Media critic Robert McChesney describes how capitalist interests have managed to enclose the non-commercial promise of the internet -- and argues that it doesn't have to be so. He also considers the state of online journalism.