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Trump’s attacks on Yemen will cost U.S. taxpayers billions
The immense cost to U.S. taxpayers of Trump’s assault on Yemen, which promises no results and primarily serves Israel’s interests, could easily reach the tens of billions at the current pace, especially considering the intensity of operations is much greater than under his predecessor.
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From welfare to warfare: Military Keynesianism
Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the U.S. under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it.
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Trump wants to sell citizenship to rich people. Take if from other countries-it’s a bad idea
Citizenship by investment schemes drive up housing prices and do little to drive economic growth.
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How U.S. plans to bleed Europe dry while waging war on China
The theatrical events of the previous week between Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump, and JD Vance have been grist for all manner of bourgeois media lies designed to obfuscate events.
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President Trump’s cabinet of polluters, frackers and climate crisis deniers rushes to gut protections
In his address to Congress this week, President Trump boasted about ending “environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable.”
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Trump’s policy toward Latin America: Even anti-Communist Zealots in Miami don’t like it
The Trump administration’s volatility on foreign policy reveals internal divisions within Trumpism. But when threats and populism lose their momentum, the anti-communist hawks may get their way.
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Why we need to stop capitalism’s runaway train: Interview with Ian Angus
Michael Lavalette spoke to leading ecosocialist Ian Angus about capitalisms’ ecocide, Trump and what we need to do stop global heating.
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The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.
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Against Žižek’s Pessimism: Hope, Will, and the Dialectics of Liberation
Slavoj Žižek, one of the Western thinkers who is familiar with Marxist terminology, published an article in Philosophy Salon on January 27, 2025, entitled “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell.”
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The fog of class war
A class consciousness among the working masses, one that takes the issue of race seriously, is critical at this moment. Still, the democrats are working to disrupt this effort to organize against the capitalist elite.
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Gaming Money with Raúl Carrillo
Money on the Left speaks with Raúl Carrillo, assistant professor of Law at Boston College, about gaming money. In this episode, we explore how companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Roblox are not only harming gamers but issuing “shadow money,” evading banking regulations meant to prevent structural problems.
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Revolt of the rich: Wealthy elites have waged a fifty year class war—and won
The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump makes clear that the U.S. has two right-wing parties and no effective left-wing opposition.
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Two alternative growth paradigms
Nobody can claim that the rate of growth of agricultural production, especially of food grain production, has been higher in the neoliberal period than during the years of dirigiste development that preceded it; it may have been somewhat lower but let us agree that it is certainly no higher.
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Venezuela: U.S. shrinks Chevron wind-down period to 30 days following ‘crazy Cubans’ pressure
Ramped-up economic sanctions will immediately affect the country’s oil output and potentially trigger inflation.
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Chainsaw diplomacy: Javier Milei’s Argentina destruction is a nightmarish model for Musk, DOGE
The Argentinian president gifted Elon Musk a custom chainsaw, which he promised to use to drastically reduce public spending in his new role as the de facto leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Exposing the big con: The false promise of Artificial Intelligence
The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all.
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Harry Magdoff Memorial Library: The Hidden Library of Marx, Lenin, and Mao in Kathmandu
In the basement of Helping Hands Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, there is a meeting room. Its left and right sides are lined with stacks of large books, some with torn covers. These are rare books about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and others. They sit like prisoners, yearning for readers to set them free. The place is known as Harry Magdoff Memorial Library.
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The empire rebrands
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.
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A whiff of stagflation
The major economies are exhibiting signs of stagflation.
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The empire at its most honest
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.