Geography Archives: Global

With extreme weather events worsening each year, and the world on track to surpass by 2030 the Paris Agreement’s attempt to limit global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, connecting these disruptive and deadly events to climate change is a key part of the story.

What is true of the world economy as a whole holds true for countries like India which have enormous labour reserves inherited from the colonial times, reserves hidden away in particular in vast agrarian sectors.

Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media.

Dr. Foster discusses the strong philosophical connections between the ancient Greek philosopher and Marx’s thinking which go back to Marx’s dissertation.

Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports.

Culture, which has for so long—for too long—had only the weapons of the intelligence to defend it against the material weapons of the aggressors, that culture is itself not only an emanation of the spirit but also and above all a material thing.

If Marx in Capital lays bare the “hidden” abode of capitalist production, Joyce, in Ulysses, lays bare the hidden (yet all-too-visible) abode of modern reproduction, the arena that’s both the starting and end point of progressive politics, decreeing its victory or defeat.

A global survey found people in most countries see the United States as the biggest threat to the world, and prefer China over the U.S. These are the results of the EU-backed Democracy Perception Index.

Today, the United States is acting according to its own rules. On January 3, it sent a message not only to Venezuela but to the entire continent: it remains the most powerful military force on the planet, and it is prepared to use that force.

When SpaceX shares began trading on the Nasdaq on June 12, the trap was already set.

Why understanding a book means understanding the world that produced it.

Today India has a level of income inequality higher than at any time in the previous one hundred years, and one of the highest in the world

As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.

Summary: The Global Justice Report

The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S.

In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a single pill of Daraprim, an antiparasitic drug used by cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750.00.

The government has been misleading the public and effectively hiding hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending.

If AI is to succeed for capital, it will only be at the expense of most working people and their families.

Toward a method of critical inquiry.

Most accounts of commodity fetishism stop at the definition: under capitalism, relations between people appear as relations between things.