Imperialism: How the Struggle of Both Classes and Nations Creates Our World
How imperailasm has determined much of the structure of the international economy and that in turn affects domestic interests.
Read more...Category Archives: Politics
US Weaponizes Environmental Rhetoric to Seek Water Hegemony
An update on jockeying over critical water resources and how the US is positioning itself.
Read more...Zelensky’s Latest TV Interview Shows How Much the Ukraine Conflict’s Dynamics Have Shifted
Zelensky has moderated some posiitons as US and EU enthusiasm for Project Ukraine is falling. But don’t get your hopes up for an endgame
Read more...Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion
The IMF made a comprehensive tally of fossil fuels subsidies. Both the level and the trajectory are sobering.
Read more...Danny Haiphong: Pepe Escobar and Michael Hudson Join on BRICS Plus Six, Ukraine, and the Multipolar World Economy!
Danny Haiphong talks to Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar about hot mulitipolarity topics, particularly BRICS and its “currency” plans
Read more...Technotage on the Rise? More Efforts to Stymie Job-Threatening, Sometimes Hazardous “Innovations”
Ant-technology action, or technotage, seems to be increasing. Is this a trend or just coincidence?
Read more...Testing Marx
The findings highlight the role of historical, institutional, and technological factors in shaping capitalist trajectories, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach may be insufficient.
Read more...As Covid Surges, Los Angeles County Public Health Takes a Minimalist Approach
Mask up, Taylor! FFS.
Read more...Book Review: Two Critiques of America’s Ailing Health Care System
Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
Read more...The NYT & WSJ’s Critical Articles About Kiev’s Counteroffensive Explain Why It Failed
It’s now in the open that US and Ukraine were at odds about the much vaunted counteroffensive, even when it was clear it would not get far
Read more...Despite 4 Indictments, Trump Will Still Be the GOP Nominee
Trump won’t be over until he is over, and that will not be before the Republican convention.
Read more...Henry A. Kissinger at 100, Still a War Criminal
Some of the major entries in Kissinger’s rap sheet.
Read more...BRICS’ Expansion Is Beneficial But It Also Isn’t Without Strategic Challenges
BRICS is set to add important new members…but will their diversity complicate coming to common policy stances?
Read more...Medicare for All, Not Medicare Advantage
How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.
Read more...Jonesing on Carbon
A reminder that the rich are grossly dispropirtionate carbon fuel users.
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