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Fact Check – CLAIM: “Unfettered capitalism” created the opioid crisis. VERDICT: False. The opioid crisis was the result of bad government policy and medical advice.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a campaign event in Decorah, Iowa, on Monday and agreed with a woman who suggested that Americans are brainwashed into embracing the traditional American dream and capitalism, telling the crowd that she is “exactly right.”

The author of a bill that would require California high school students to be taught an ethnic studies curriculum has decided to delay the measure amid intense debate over which political identity groups should be included in the program.

Marxist professor Richard Wolff argued this week that schools should abandon traditional grading systems because they are part of “meritocracy” which in turn is a basis of capitalism.

“The Democrats are on a mission,” said Senator David Perdue (R-GA) at Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority event Thursday morning regarding the first 2020 Democrat debate. “I never thought I’d be sitting here talking about capitalism versus socialism,” Perdue added.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) stated the debate within the Democrat party is “confusing” during the second night of the Democrat presidential debates held in Miami, Florida, Thursday night.

Denver has elected a socialist city councilwoman who is calling for the “communal ownership” of land, according to the results of the city’s June 4 runoff.

An increasing number of Americans are seeing socialism in a more positive light, a recent Harris poll shows.

Obama commented on his understanding of the founding of the United States during the VTEXDAY 2019 conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday. 

Fox Business noted this week that capitalism made it possible for billionaire Robert F. Smith to pay off the student loans of Morehouse College Class of 2019, a $40 million donation that he announced during a commencement address at the college on Sunday.

In a world where it costs millions of dollars just to produce one hour of drama, how does Means TV plan to fill a subscription platform with, among all those other things, “dramas” with only $500,000?

A Monmouth University poll released on Monday showed that only ten percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes at Fox News about the irony that the socialism espoused by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being commercially promoted and heralded by the supremely capitalist enterprise of Netflix:

A poll of likely voters in New Hampshire shows Former Vice President Joe Biden is the best pick for beating President Donald Trump in 2020.

Friday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) addressed criticisms of his state as being socialist and too highly taxed. Becerra touted California as “doing a better job than most capitalists” in job creation and went on to praise California’s economy.

‘Us’ is also a cautionary tale about the importance of a owning a gun and learning how to use it.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a self-declared proponent of “democratic socialism,” took pride Tuesday in questioning Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan about the bank’s role in financing private projects that she considers objectionable, such as oil pipelines and prisons.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said during a Saturday interview at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, that the ideology of capitalism is “irredeemable.”

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), who recently added his name to the large list of Democratic presidential hopefuls, appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Host Joe Scarborough asked the former businessman if he had concerns about the rise of socialism

Mykala Steadman of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation writes in the Daily Signal about how president and CEO of Job Creators Network Alfredo Ortiz became a champion of capitalism and small business and went after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortiz.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blased opponents of the Green New Deal: “We’re screwed on climate,” she said. “At this point, we don’t even have to prove it.”

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), the first black trade union in Africa, by Clements Kadalie.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday editorialized that globalism needs an “upgrade” because its critics, notably including U.S. President Donald Trump, have valid complaints about the current model of globalization.

A majority of Americans disagree with socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and like capitalism.

Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for an anticipated three-day visit.

A lecturer from New Zealand is recently argued in an academic paper that surfers need to “redistribute” quality waves to “vulnerable surfers.”

Bono, a musical artist and activist reportedly worth around $700 million, said capitalism is a “wild beast” that has to be “tamed.”

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper published a story Tuesday recommending that the communist regime of Cuba learn from China’s “reform and opening-up” economic strategy, which saw Beijing allowing trusted Communist Party members to run corporations to give the appearance of private enterprise.

Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News on Friday that Leftists want the complete and fundamental destruction of Western civilization, and that he hopes the Republican Party has learned that it needs to keep fighting in order to win.

One of America’s most popular and influential Catholic bishops told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Friday that the Catholic Church has nothing in common with socialism but supports a “vigorous market economy.”