Archive | March, 2025

The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all.

Baffled by the voters who shunned Bidenomics and complained about the economy, Democratic Party pundits are convinced that voters are simply ignorant of the facts.

Under the auspices of the Bolivarian Revolution’s call for people’s power, a self-organized Indigenous commune looks for state support to enhance its traditional production methods.

In the basement of Helping Hands Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, there is a meeting room. Its left and right sides are lined with stacks of large books, some with torn covers. These are rare books about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and others. They sit like prisoners, yearning for readers to set them free. The place is known as Harry Magdoff Memorial Library.

“When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”

Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive.

To the victors, the spoils.

Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.

The larger rebrand underway is seeing elite “reconciliation” under Trump and plutocrats line up behind the repackaging from a “woke” empire to a more old-fashioned version focused on race, religion and more brazen exploitation.

In a series of notifications sent to Congress on Friday, the State Department has reported it has approved the sale of more than 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs and 4,000 Predator warheads worth $2.04 billion to Israel.

The major economies are exhibiting signs of stagflation.

President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.

Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than they received in imports. The difference between the two, Sullivan and Hickel argue, represented a transfer of real tangible materials from Africa to the capitalist world economy, for free.

The Trump strategy for the revival of imperialism amounts to having one’s cake and eating it too.