Santa Ana winds are whipping up wildfires in Southern California after a devastating season in wine country. Rising temps can make the West dangerously combustible.
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WaPo’s one-sided cheerleading for coup and intervention in Venezuela
The Washington Post has put out 15 opinion pieces on issues surrounding Venezuela, and they are disturbing and far from the truth.
The future of capitalism
Looking at the present and future system of capitalism, there is a vital crisis at the heart of it all. Democratic capitalism, starting out in the 18th century, has had its ups and downs but even Marx, Keynes, Rosa Luxemberg, and Kondratieff have all failed to establish theories to break out of the capitalist system.
Capitalism and punishment
David Russio takes a look into the punishments (deaths) that come from capitalism. For is it really bringing balance to the destruction that it causes. That seems to be the loaded question we all know the answer to.
Is Fascism Making a Comeback? (Part 2)
A continuation of ‘Is Fascism Making a Comeback?’ This is the second edition to the series, ‘State of Nature’.
Melbourne protesters defy cops, challenge Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo Yiannopoulos, an avid and notorious alt-right figure, ended his night with several hundred anti-fascist protesters. Joined by residents of the Flemington and Kensingston commission flats, protesting and showing the need for radical anti-capitalist defiance against fascists, such as Yiannopoulos.
Can we be alienated when we love shops
This week the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explains how we are all objectified by our capitalist economic system.
Führer Trump tweets neo-Nazi anti-Muslim propaganda
On Wednesday, Donald Trump used the bully pulpit of the U.S. presidency to spread neo-Nazi anti-Muslim propaganda to the world.
Is fascism making a comeback? (Part 1)
Each month, the wonderful State of Nature blog asks leading critical thinkers a question. This month that question is Fascism.
Marx has the last laugh
Celeste Thorne reports on a unique cartoon and caricature competition marking the birth bicentenary of the great man.
Honduras’ Opposition Alliance says election ‘stolen,’ won’t accept results
Former President Manuel Zelaya, leader of the opposition, accused the TSE of stealing the election from the alliance.
“Colombia is safe for business, but not for people”
Murders of trade unionists and social leaders, paramilitary activity, coca production… If we only paid attention to the mainstream media we would not get the idea that these problems are actually growing in Colombia, one year after the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC came into place. To get a better picture […]
IMF, World Bank, & structural adjustment
IMF, World Bank, & Structural Adjustment
Istvan Meszaros and Marx’s theory of alienation
The late Hungarian philosopher explained how alienation can only be overcome by collective action which challenges capitalist relations of production.
Media complicity increases the possibility of a new Korean War
Tensions between the US and North Korea are again rising in the wake of North Korea’s November 28th test of an ICBM that experts believe has the potential to deliver a nuclear bomb to cities on the east coast of the US, including Washington D.C.
One year without Fidel – the foundations of our patriotism
No other Latin American Marxist was such a preacher of Marti’s ideas than Fidel Castro.
‘Valve-Turners’ putting lives on the line for our climate emergency
In October 2016, while President Barack Obama was still in office, five climate change activists, including me, cut chains and closed emergency shutoff valves on five tar sands oil pipelines in four states. In one morning, we briefly stopped the flow of all Canadian tar sands oil into the United States.
The New York Times and the U.S. Border wall: A love story
The New York Times’ radical reasonableness offers us a clear vision of the ways one can continuously adapt its position to the political context as to be in position of respectful negotiation with the status quo.
Killings, evacuations, rights violations on weekend after talks termination
The ink has yet to dry on President Rodrigo Duterte’s Proclamation No. 360 signed last Thursday but killings and harassments of activists, indigenous peoples and human rights defenders have already increased over the weekend.
What is racial capitalism and why does it matter?
Talk by Robin D. G. Kelley on “What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?” recorded November 7, 2017 at Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Sponsored by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.
