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Degrowth is the only path to a sustainable future
It is incumbent upon us as a species to seriously consider radical alternative, anti-capitalist and ecological futures
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War is not the answer to deep planetary insecurity: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)
The latest Human Development Report (2021–22) records that for the first time in thirty-two years, the Human Development Index has registered a second consecutive year of decline.
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Life expectancy: The U.S. and Cuba in the time of Covid
Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years.
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Idaho’s Far Right suffers election loss to 18-year-old climate activist
High school senior Shiva Rajbhandari won elected office in Boise, defeating an incumbent school board trustee backed by local extremists.
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Why China’s first solar-powered, semi-satellite drone is a big deal
In a big step toward green development, China has built its first solar-powered large unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Sex work: a contemporary identity rooted in labour
Following Labour Day, this column explores the origin of the phrase sex work and how sex workers are an important part of the labour movement.
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Occupy 2.0
Are you ready for Occupy 2.0? Hell Yeah!
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U.S. still fails to grant visas for Russian delegation to attend UNGA
Russia still waits for the U.S. to act on its “legal obligation” and provide the Russian delegation with the necessary visas to attend the UN General Assembly session.
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Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the U.S., inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar.
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Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy
It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that conflict for its own nefarious ends.
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Imperialism and Taiwan
The recent visit of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan has sharply increased the prospect of war in the region.
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Africa struggles with neo-colonialism
After a quarter century of economic stagnation, African economic recovery early in the 21st century was under great pressure even before the pandemic, due to new trade arrangements, falling commodity prices and severe environmental stress.
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With fire and courage
Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin’s poetry in Chicana on Fire (2022) is testimonial and collective.
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Abortion foes target their next Supreme Court fight
The right is now trying to use a Rhode Island case to get the high court to create a federal abortion ban.
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NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid
Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.
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Most Dems mum on blocking Manchin’s pipeline deal
Many lawmakers are criticizing the Schumer-Manchin climate bomb — but only a few have pledged to do what may be necessary to stop it.
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‘Billions for Ukraine–we say billions for Jackson’
In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”
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Steve Fraser, the Rogue Court, then and now
Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? The evidence mounts. Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century’s worth of settled law.
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While U.S. leaders moralize about alleged human rights abuses in Russia and China to justify proxy wars, prisoners in the U.S. routinely suffer from inhumane treatment
A Miami Prisoner is Among Those Who Believe That U.S. Prison Authorities Are Trying to Kill Them.
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Justice 4 Jackson. “Help us fix Jackson’s water system and build more autonomy and people power in the city.”
Jackson, Mississippi is currently suffering through an unprecedented water crisis.