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The Tech-VC Bloc is key to understanding why work is getting worse
The promise of digital transformation is anchored in a discourse that the tech sector invented along with venture capital (VC) when they came together to lobby for reducing capital gains taxes in the late 1970s.
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Fanon’s renewal of the Marxist formula
In the vortex of the Algerian revolution Fanon’s return to ‘the Marxist formula’ was rooted in the concrete situation of a living struggle.
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Center-periphery relationships of pharmaceutical value chains
The internationalization of the pharmaceutical industry only rose after the internationalization of patent protection in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) (Haakonsson, 2009).
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China on the horizon as ‘world’s pharmacy’
The World Health Organisation’s approval Friday for China’s COVID-19 vaccine known as Sinopharm dramatically transforms the ecosystem of the pandemic.
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ACURA Viewpoint: Sanctions and Forever Wars by Krishen Mehta
The U.S. has sanctions against over 30 countries, close to one-third of the world’s population. When the pandemic startedin early 2020, our Government tried to prevent Iran from buying respirator masks from overseas, and also thermal imaging equipment that could detect the virus in the lungs.
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Dan Ellsberg blows the whistle again at UMASS-Amherst Conference to commemorate his legacy
Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age.
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Sweden’s hands-off coronavirus model has failed
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell explained—in a now removed article in Dagens Industri, a Stockholm-based financial newspaper—that the country’s strategy to contain the virus would not “compromise our social functioning in a way that is more detrimental to any profits”.
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What are the real reasons behind the New Cold War?
The U.S. is launching a New Cold War against Russia and China in an attempt to deflect our attention from the escalating crisis of global capitalism.
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Oli’s virus ‘situation under control’ remark meets with criticism
Crisis continues to deepen with over 8,000 new cases and 53 deaths. Many from Oli’s orbit and over two dozen lawmakers test positive ahead of May 10 House session.
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Doctors in Nepal warn people could die on streets amid Covid crisis
Nepal reported 9,070 new confirmed cases on Thursday, compared to 298 a month ago.
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The Xinjiang genocide determination as agenda
Because of the world’s fundamental interconnectedness, the increasingly Cold War-like relations between The West and China have negative consequences for both systems and for the rest of the world.
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How the U.S. taught Judge Moro to “take down” Lula
How a U.S. State Department official taught illegal tactics to Brazilian judges and prosecutors that went on to be used to remove Lula from the 2018 presidential race
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BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”
Arendt saw the “Negro question” as a “Negro problem” rather than a white problem.
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Star Trek: Progressivism and corporatism don’t mix (part 2)
What is the point of Star Trek? Is it conceivable that all these treks among the stars are in fact subtle ways to spread and justify U.S. policies, ideology, militarism, and interventionism?
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On Paul Kingsnorth and Unruly Nature
Myth, an early and enduring human technology, will always be with us, in both unconscious and conscious forms. As we now face the slow-motion collapse of the biosphere, the call for new myths is not so much an escapist alternative to concrete analysis and action as a starting point.
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In Kerala, the present is dominated by the future
Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people of Kerala have voted out the incumbent, seeking to alternate between the Left and the Right.
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Freedom Rider: Progressives capitulate to Biden
There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.
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Marx on technology
The longest chapter in Capital is the fifteenth, on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry.”
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Two classes of trans kids are emerging–those who have access to puberty blockers, and those who don’t
For decades, kids who didn’t conform to the gender expected of them were forced to endure treatments designed to “cure” their gender nonconformity. This form of therapy, called “reparative” or “corrective,” typically involved instructing parents–and sometimes teachers–to subject children to constant surveillance and correction.
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America hasn’t reckoned with the coup that blasted the Black middle class
In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow–and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.