Wednesday, June 25, 2025

What Can Social Movements Learn From Gramsci in Today’s Uncertain Times?

Gramsci encourages movements to pursue wide-ranging interventions, but always to unite them as part of a common program to transform society.

Oil, Gas, Wages, Interest Rates: Biden’s Other 2024 Risks

A supposedly good economy has not helped Biden much and trends such as oil prices do not look to be in his favor.

Links 8/6/2023

The Nationalist Right Tries a New Formula to Sell the European Neoliberal Project

In Italy and elsewhere, the right combines anti-immigrant and chauvinist measures with neoliberal policy. 

‘Renters Are Struggling’: Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control

Economists begin to admit that their models are wrong when it comes to anti-rent control arguments.

War Hawks’ Drive to Expand NATO into Asia May Destroy Western Military Alliance

Individuals can fail upwards, but organizations? NATO not been up to the task of propping up Ukraine, but the US wants to aim it at China.

Links 8/5/2023

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Google Alleges First Amendment Violations via YouTube Censorship as a State Actor

Oh frabjous day! RFK, Jr. has lobbed a very big bomb at the heart of the censorship apparatus.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/4/2023

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More on the Collapse of Operational Capabilities in the West: How Did We Get Here

Some thoughts on the rapid decline in operational capabilities, or why tons of people, particularly those in charge, are no good at their jobs

Links 8/4/2023

From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape

The policing minister is encouraging police forces across the country to make use of live facial recognition technologies for routine law enforcement. Retailers are also embracing the technology to monitor their customers. 

Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle

Rob Urie makes a reasoned, data-backed case that the tools used in supposed democracies to enforce class standing merit the label of fascism

Russia Is Finally Correcting False Perceptions of BRICS

Russia is dialing down expectations for big BRICS developments at a late August summit.

NC Under Attack from Ukraine After Posting on Gonzalo Lira Being Tortured and Extorted While in Prison

Quelle surprise! Some people in Ukraine do not like NC!