Taking Nuclear Vulnerabilities Seriously
All nuclear weapon states have admitted to the possibility that deterrence could fail.
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Socialist or Capitalist: What is China’s Model, Exactly?
While China’s economic system differs sharply from a Western capitalist system, it is definitely not socialist in the sense of having overcome the employer/employee structure.
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Trump Losing His Tech War with China – Two Articles
From tariffs to the TikTok ban to slurs about the “kung flu”, Trump has been expressing mounting frustration over China and ramping up attacks on an inexorably rising power on the global stage.
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United States of America: Socialism for Big Capital and Wild Capitalism for the Poor – Two Articles
Martin Luther King’s characterisation, “The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor”, perfectly describes what is happening in the USA during the pandemic.
Forging Unity Within the Working Class: An Interview with Michael D. Yates
In its desperate race to survive its series of crises, capitalism keeps clinging on to its old tool of dividing the working class; Yates talks of the various issues related to building working class unity.
The Pandemic, Technology, and Remote Work: The Corporate Push for Greater Control Over Workers’ Lives
The pandemic has led to corporations embracing at-home work and are pursing the use of new technologies designed to increase managerial control over the remote work process.
Greenland Succumbs
Since the turn of the new century, every aspect of climate change has gone ballistic, up, up, and away … the latest is that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting fast and faster.
Can BJP’s Politics and Facebook’s Business Thrive Without Hate?
The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age.
The Adani Group’s Destructive Projects – Two Articles
Reports on the Adani group’s projects worldwide show massive illegalities, environmental destruction, and human rights violations. Two articles, on Adani’s Godda plant, and coal mines in the Hasdeo Aranya forests.
August 12-22, 1945: Washington Starts the Korean and Vietnam Wars
On 14 August, 1945, I was a little kid celebrating the end of World War II. Little did we know that our government was building the highway into two calamitous wars and a future of unending war.