John Bellamy Foster debunks the misconception that socialism and Marx’s materialism had no role in the development of ecological analysis
Read more...How Trump has been trying to use military muscle to reassert US geopolitical and economic dominance.
Read more...John Bellamy Foster explains how Marx learned from chemists, physicists, biologists and the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus
Read more...US and UK stock prices are in nosebleed terrain. How far could they fall?
Read more...Data center watchdog groups in Kansas farming areas seek to ward off applications and fight if it becomes necessary.
Read more...A hard look at the possible severity of the coming global food crisis and how it demands new approaches to analysis and decisions.
Read more...Their “Arsenal of Democracy” is breaking down (a good thing!); too bad it doesn’t mean redirecting social capital toward social needs.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai discuss how much of supposed US economic performance is illusory, and what happens when it unwinds.
Read more...A Kushner project has caught Albania between US and EU interests, with revolution-seeking Western networks playing a big role.
Read more...Decades of misuse of US imperial advantages, malinvestment, looting produce hopium for destructive AI deployment as a rescue for the rich.
Read more...BRICS seems destined never to live up to hopes for it. Is strengthening the Non-Aligned Movement a better strategy?
Read more...Because reasons, today’s post will be something different, and more personal. I will also come close to violating Horowitz’s Rule: Never generalize about your own necessarily limited experience. Joel Horowitz was my freshman sociology teacher all those many years ago. He was in his mid-thirties when he taught us, and his PhD was a second […]
Read more...An exchange about American versus European productivity is really about the US need to substantiate its superior status.
Read more...Winning seems to be all that matters to Donald Trump, because it is the only thing left to legitimize America’s oligarchic rule.
Read more...Even with rising inequality and weak labor rights, unions secure enough improvements in pay and conditions to provide some class mobility.
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