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“When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”

Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive.

To the victors, the spoils.

Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.

The larger rebrand underway is seeing elite “reconciliation” under Trump and plutocrats line up behind the repackaging from a “woke” empire to a more old-fashioned version focused on race, religion and more brazen exploitation.

In a series of notifications sent to Congress on Friday, the State Department has reported it has approved the sale of more than 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs and 4,000 Predator warheads worth $2.04 billion to Israel.

The major economies are exhibiting signs of stagflation.

President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.

Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than they received in imports. The difference between the two, Sullivan and Hickel argue, represented a transfer of real tangible materials from Africa to the capitalist world economy, for free.

The Trump strategy for the revival of imperialism amounts to having one’s cake and eating it too.

Will the U.S.’s geopolitical chess moves, from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia, be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night took the first step in the Trump administration’s plans for devastating cuts in social spending, particularly on healthcare, adopting an initial budget plan by a 217-215 vote.

As we continue in the struggle for economic justice, it is important to examine how white Christian evangelism shapes our efforts to alleviate poverty. Casting poverty as a form of moral failing encourages people to disengage from the social, cultural, and structural causes of poverty and ignores the role that white Americans play in the global proliferation of poverty conditions worldwide.

Trump’s actions signal need to understand global history of white supremacy.

Venezuela’s Minister for Communes and Social Movements Ángel Prado affirmed this Tuesday that the aim of the Popular and Communal Government System is to consolidate the entire structure of the commune. “We seek to consolidate, from the territory, the entire structure of the commune, and that involves achieving a centrality in the information by not […]

The clearest legislative priority of the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress is to keep taxes low for the richest households and corporations.

Today’s countries such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and France have, to varying degrees, confronted their imperial legacies, however incomplete or contested these reckonings may be.

Despite shifting political climate, media reformers press forward with Fox News TV license challenge.

Firings and budget cuts could slow emergency disaster response and weaken resilience efforts.

On Friday, February 21, all the major U.S. stock indices fell.