Subjects Archives: Capitalism

Since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, U.S. imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the U.S. continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance.

As climate collapse accelerates, its unequal impacts reveal the class divisions at its core.

Samir Amin is known for his ideas about how the world economy works. He also introduced the term Eurocentrism in 1988. Many people see him as a leader in Dependency Theory.

A Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked a key rule that would have removed medical debt from the credit reports of roughly 15 million Americans, dealing a harsh blow to struggling families already burdened by the high cost of health care, particularly Black Americans who carry a disproportionate share of that debt.

For Baran, the key to liberating the former colonies from the stranglehold of rapacious monopolies is not a reordering of international relations, not a campaign for a level international playing field, not alternative market institutions, nor a coalition of dissenters from the status quo, but a radical change in the social and economic structure of the oppressed country.

U.S. corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians.

Despite this dire backsliding on climate policy, with consequences that are clear as day, it’s business as usual in the realm of business news.

Mészáros’s study points out that an integral part of capital’s incessant drive to expand involves overcoming two interlocking contradictions.

Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas.

Chris Townsend has been organizing workers, conducting political work for labor unions, and teaching young workers to organize for almost all his adult life. He is, as we say, “the real deal.” While most of us opine and pontificate about labor, Chris does the dirty work. He organizes. His contributions over several decades have played […]

We’re about to see the largest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history. It’s also going to be the largest cut to health care in the history of the U.S. The “Big Bill” includes over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The attacks on the past, as Fanon puts it, are also attacks on the history, culture, and very way of life of oppressed people. 

Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” which got passed by both houses in the U.S. and has now become law, is a massive assault on welfare spending.

The death toll from flash flooding in Texas continues to rise, now above 100, with many still missing and presumed drowned.

This week, the world’s major central bankers have gathered in the sweltering heat of Sintra, Portugal (although I am sure the the aircon is good in their swanky hotel in the hills).

Big tech is working hard to sell us on artificial intelligence, in particular what is called “artificial general intelligence.” At conferences and in interviews corporate leaders describe a not-too-distant future when AI systems will be able to do everything for everyone, producing a world of plenty for all. But they warn, that future depends on […]

Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.

In communities where access to fresh food is scarce, public grocery stores can provide crucial resources at lower prices.

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness