• On the brilliant Bob McChesney
    On the brilliant Bob McChesney

    Bob McChesney, that prescient seer on the subject of media consolidation and much more, died last month.

    War Above, War Below
    War Above, War Below

    Capital Is Murder Capital was soaked in blood, steeped in urine, and “dripping from every pore” as it emerged from myriad colonial genocides perpetuated by white Europe.1 With the colonization of the Americas, the world was divided in two: the “white” and civilized European versus the “dark” and uncivilized savage. With the color line and […]

    Iraq – Rising temperatures increasing poverty and unemployment
    Iraq – Rising temperatures increasing poverty and unemployment

    The contradiction in the geographical distribution of Iraq's population precisely reflects the contradiction in the distribution of wealth in capitalist society.

    Don’t Negotiate: Negotiation Strategy Notes for Law Firms Under Attack by the Trump Administration from Harvard Law Professor of Negotiation (April 13, 2025)
    Don’t Negotiate: Negotiation Strategy Notes for Law Firms Under Attack by the Trump Administration from Harvard Law Professor of Negotiation (April 13, 2025)

    As a law firm under attack from the Trump Administration, you face an impossible choice.

    The State of Capitalism in Flux: Economy, Society, and Hegemony under Today’s Interregnum
    The State of Capitalism in Flux: Economy, Society, and Hegemony under Today’s Interregnum

    “Everything gives way and nothing stands fast.” —Heraclitus, as quoted in Plato’s Cratylus1 During the “Age of Catastrophe” (1919–45), a series of profound economic, political, and ideological crises disrupted what had appeared to be the “normal” functioning of capitalism.2 In 1930, a key moment of this “age,” marked by the economic catastrophe of the Great […]

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