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U.S. invites authoritarian far-right regimes to ‘Summit for Democracy’
The Joe Biden administration invited numerous authoritarian far-right leaders to the U.S. State Department’s so-called “Summit for Democracy”, including Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Poland’s Andrzej Duda, India’s Narendra Modi, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, and Pakistan’s coup regime.
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A common misconception about capitalism
THERE is a commonly-held view that while capitalism in its early stages brings about unemployment and hence an accentuation of poverty, this initial damage is subsequently reversed as it keeps growing
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Post-Political Post-Aesthetics
The universal premises of culture and politics have been subject to criticism from the moment that Enlightenment theories emerged. In postmodern theory, radical skepticism replaces judgement and makes universal speculation seem like either an absurd game or a violent imposition.
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The Puzzle of Financialization
In this reprise from October 1993, Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy ask: “Isn’t there anyone around here who understands how this capitalist system works?”
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You strike the women, you strike the rock, you will be crushed: The Twelfth Newsletter (2023)
What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning.
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Can we still limit global warming to 1.5°C? Here’s what the latest science says
Is it still possible to limit future global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels? Or has that ship sailed?
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The Present as History 2022 Late Imperialism
“This provocative set of essays challenges many conventional assumptions and assessments about contemporary global capitalism. The comprehensive analysis of war and geopolitics, the political economy of international trade and finance, the struggle of different powers to control nature and the planet with its ecological and distributive implications, makes it essential reading.” —Jayati Ghosh
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Birth again the dream of Global peace and mutual respect
On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’.
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Karl Marx: Before all else a revolutionist
On the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, Katherine Connelly discusses his revolutionary contribution.
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Marx and crisis of the dead tigress
‘Metabolic rift’ Marx’s prophecy at work..
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Sovereignty, dignity, and regionalism in the new international order
A set of current processes force us to ask ourselves about the possibility of a military conflagration that could affect us all. Some researchers have asked, in the present tense: Are we at war?
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The discovery & rediscovery of metabolic rift
Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.
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Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism
The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.
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The betrayers of Julian Assange
“I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful.” – John Pilger
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Imperialism and natural resources
There is an overwhelming asymmetry between the level of “development” and the possession of natural resources among countries of the world.
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Eight contradictions of the imperialist ‘rules-based order’
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has now moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to the symbolic time of the annihilation of humanity and the Earth since 1947.
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Pandemic preparedness on all fronts
The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call to the international health community and world governments.
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Faster, higher, hotter: What we learned about the climate system in 2022 (Part 1)
Beyond all the hype and all the anxiety about climate policymaking, the upbeat newsmaking about energy transitions and the growing dread of civilisational collapse, what have we learned about the climate system in the last year?
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The Arctic is the next frontier in the new cold war
Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the U.S. and Europe, Russia and China.
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Those who die for life–like Hugo Chávez–cannot be called dead: The Ninth Newsletter (2023)
On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar’s teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson.