Archive | October, 2025

The 2025 laureates didn’t just study creative destruction; they completed a century-long project to drain Marx’s explosive critique of its revolutionary content, repackaging systemic violence as a mathematical inevitability.

Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.

Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended.

What defines global capitalism today?

Solidarity activist and analyst Roger Harris takes stock of the rapidly escalating U.S. military threats against Venezuela.

It’s time to splash our faces with cold water, ask how and at what cost that water made it to our taps, and recognize that our economy can’t keep growing exponentially.

Politically manufactured panic over “transgender extremism” endangers trans people, and the corporate media is unfortunately playing along.

This continuous tendency towards a rise in income inequality arises from the fact that, owing to the mobility of capital across country borders, wages across the entire world have to suffer the baneful consequences of the massive third world labour reserves; and the relative size of these reserves does not diminish despite such relocation of capital from the Global North.

DENNIS BROE situates the new Netflix series House of Guinness within a genre that is dazzled by the perverse spectacle of capitalist domination.

Gen Z-led uprisings across the Global South point to long-term socioeconomic and environmental crises caused by neoliberalism. Yet they have often been coopted by entrenched social classes. Can their energy be channelled towards progressive ends?

Miller’s presence and voice reveal more than the death of conscience; they expose the swindle of a future already in motion.

What would William Morris think if he would see his work being printed on cheap smartphone cases? His response might not be as straight forward as you think. Though Morris preferred craftsmanship over mass production, and fiercely opposed the destruction of nature, he also believed ‘beautiful’ things should be accessible to everyone. And isn’t ‘beauty’ always in the eye of the beholder? This article uses Morris’ ideas to critically examine his work’s contemporary popularity on platforms like Alibaba.

In The Graduate (1967), a family friend corners young Benjamin Braddock with one word of advice for his future: “Plastics.”

From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors.

Mao Zedong said in 1956 that, by the beginning of the 21st century, China would have become “a powerful socialist industrial country” and that “she ought to have made a greater contribution to humanity.”

A review of Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo — a ruthless excavation of Europe’s most reactionary philosopher. Losurdo drags Nietzsche out of myth and into history, exposing his war on equality as the moral software of empire. Our review reads Losurdo as a weapon: a guide for revolutionaries to unmask how Nietzsche’s aristocratic creed still powers the ideologies of capital, empire, and Silicon Valley.

Outcry grows as footage filmed by American journalist Jasper Nathaniel goes viral, revealing messages between him and U.S. embassy in Israel.

The scary thing is that there is, so far, little or any opposition to these plans and only few warnings about their consequences.

Contract negotiations at five Pacific Northwest newspapers are putting a spotlight on AI, clickbait, and the pressures on local journalists.