Archive | May, 2026

Agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they profit more from innovations in food production, processing, and distribution.

According to the new research paper, the loss of the sediment diversion plan “effectively means giving up on extensive portions of coastal Louisiana, including the New Orleans area”.

I like very much Rahim’s conclusion: When speaking of the communist future, Marx thought that, as in ancient times, creating maximum wealth would cease to be the aim of society. Wealth itself would no longer be defined, as in bourgeois society, as an accumulation of more and more material goods, but conceived instead as a shared development of the needs, capacities, pleasures, and productive powers of individuals, freely associated.

Michael Hudson: My view is probably in agreement with what the military is said to have discussed with Donald Trump last night and for the last few days. They’ve all told him that the invasion cannot work without an enormous sacrifice, and the United States ever since the Vietnam War, that led to the ending of the draft, no longer has a landed army.

CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities.

The U.S. wants the Philippines as a base, Taiwan as a trigger and China as the target.

A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let alone finance. Despite the proliferation of sticky notes with compelling schemes, as Amanda Manitach describes in The Stranger, the arts roundtable lacked a cohesive strategy for gathering its aspirational potpourri […]

I do not know if the numbers on the Forbes char are correct but it is quite obvious that Trump and his family are using their positions to enrich themselves.

Why Imperialism Is the Greatest Threat to Humanity.

Despite the end of the Soviet era, May 9th remains a cornerstone of global antifascist history.

Since capital is globalized under neo-liberalism while labour remains confined to specific countries, a higher rate of accumulation is supposed to require the creation of a more attractive environment for capital compared to other countries; and lower wages constitute one major component of this more attractive environment.

You ever wonder why people who make AI talk about how AI might destroy humanity—but still keep making AI?

From the 1870 15th Amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting rights for Black people have proven to be ephemeral. Laws can be unenforced or gutted altogether. Black people’s rights must be defended by mass popular action.

Tapped to advise Steve Witkoff on Iran, Nick Stewart previously condemned dealing with any of Iran’s elected leaders. His presence consolidates military conflict as the Trump administration’s only option.

How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements.

The contrast between the Manmohan Singh government’s management of India-Iran relations under U.S. pressure and the Modi government’s abject capitulation is the clearest possible illustration of what strategic autonomy means in practice, as opposed to in rhetoric.

“Security comes from funding homes, food and education. Security does not come from an economy built on war.”

People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it–and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.

Welcome to Marx in Surplus 05. For this entry we step back to 1837 and read a single letter written by a 19-year-old law student to his father.

Trump’s proposed rule change doubles down on an already broken and polluting food system.