Archive | September, 2026

It all begins with a potato.

In Gaza, thousands of children have been killed amid the genocide that’s being imposed by Israel with total impunity. Thousands of them are unaccounted for and buried beneath the rubble. In Cuba, millions of people have survived for years amid blackouts, shortages, difficulties accessing medicines, fuel scarcity, and a profound economic crisis imposed upon them by the United States.

The LCBO makes the inconvenient case that public ownership can be efficient, profitable, and serve the public interest.

Digital capitalism is merely a new form of exploitation that has become widespread by spilling out of the company itself to encompass the mass of its users or customers.

Flores filed her application on September 9, requesting permission to await trial under strict home detention because of what her lawyers describe as a serious and continuously deteriorating cardiac condition.

Capitalists have long been aware of the consequences of fossil-fuel use, but the profit system requires them to seek to benefit from it, or escape it as individuals, explains John Clarke.

NSPM-7 and the State Department’s international campaign against “far-left political terrorism” represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing the historical figure of the “subversive Negro” as a national security threat.

The Bretton Woods system institutionalized the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency, with the U.S. pledging to buy and sell gold from foreign governments and central banks at a fixed price of $35 per ounce of gold.

The attacks on the United States precipitated what the Indian Marxist Aijaz Ahmad called in an eponymous essay and book, “the imperialism of our time.”

We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the context of his broader career in heterodox economics.

For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of sovereignty, socialist planning, and the transformation of social relations.

“With every additional centimeter of sea-level rise,” the lead author noted, “about 2 to 3 million people are put at risk of annual coastal flooding.”

Volkswagen’s plant in Osnabrück, Germany, is running out of cars. Weapons production is moving in. 

A chilling aspect of the assault on the people of Ecuador is that it is led by an individual against whom there is strong evidence of links to large-scale drug trafficking: between 2020 and 2025, at least eight large shipments of cocaine—camouflaged in banana crates belonging to the Noboa family and destined for Europe—were seized.

The Trump administration is blocking an agreement that would allow Chagossians who were displaced 60 years ago to return to their homeland.

The Report makes clear that sexualized violence is not an episodic add-on to occupation and genocide. Rather, it is a foundational, legalized aspect of the Zionist project.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. The rise of modern-day fascism is “not simply a rerun,” explains Klein. “We don’t believe that history repeats on a loop. We believe that we’re in something more like a sequel, where the logics of fascism, which are the logics of dehumanization, of othering, of racial supremacy and hierarchy, are now being applied in a time of global existential crisis.” In response, says Taylor, the growing movement seeking to resist this fatalistic vision “fundamentally needs to be grounded in a desire to stay here on Earth, to commit to this place.

International students occupy a peculiar position within the contemporary university.

The American public will need many more voices and new collective efforts to erect more barriers to nuclear war, not give a president more options for starting one.

For decades, the Saudi state cultivated the mythology of sovereignty while constructing one of the most elaborate systems of strategic dependency in modern history.