The Left Has a Great Story to Share About Alternatives to Capitalism—But Sucks at Telling It
Why is the left so lousy at messaging?
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The Many Faces of Identity
A look at the development of the idea of identity.
Read more...Further Discussion of the South Africa Genocide Case Against Israel: Evaluating What the Court Might Do
Why, despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence of Israeli genocide from South Africa and the press, the ICJ may not impose strong remedies.
Read more...Why Don’t More Countries Take Action Against Israel?
Overwhelming evidence points to genocide causing widespread public outrage, but only a few countries sever economic ties with Israel.
Read more...Orbán Outfoxes the EU in Nationalism vs. Technocracy Fight
The ongoing drama between Budapest and Brussels over Ukraine and the “rule of law” is really about who gets to control Hungary.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Russia, Iran and the Red Sea: NATO’s War Economy Collapses
Michael Hudson describes how the US, embarrassingly bested by Russia and now the Houthis, is doubling down on ally-damaging economic retaliation.
Read more...Iranian-Pakistan Tensions Occur Amid Iran’s Rise as New Regional Power in West Asia
Explaining the significance of the recent strikes by Iran and Pakistan on each other’s territory.
Read more...Rob Urie: The End of the World as We Know It
How world leaders and big money interests are resorting to increasingly desperate and destructive strategies to maintain their grip on power.
Read more...Young Activists Working for Change
Young activists are more prevalent and effective than our orthodoxy-enforcing media and pols would have you believe.
Read more...World Bank Enables Foreign Aid Theft
The World Bank encourages governments to reduce capital controls, draining precious foreign exchange and government resources.
Read more...You Could Have a Wealth Tax Raising a Few Billion or Major Reforms to Existing Taxes That Could Raise £100 Billion or More? Which Would You Prefer if You Wanted To Tackle Inequality?
Watching Davos is enough to make many buy pitchfork futures or push for a wealth tax. But there are better ways to skin fat cats.
Read more...Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour
Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
Read more...Predators and Prey: Subverting Liberal and Populist Institutions
An anatomy of how one-time key progressive institutions like NPR were converted to the neoliberal cause.
Read more...When Science Meets Power: A Review
A look at what Covid-19 revealed was wrong about science (or more accurately, “the science”, and what might be done.
Read more...The US, Israel Have Lost Battlefield Control – Houthis Have Attacked US Destroyer, Hit Greek-US Owned Bulker; Iran Has Hit US Base in Kurdish Capital, Erbil
The Houthi situation has developed not necessarily to the US’ and UK’s advantage.
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