The True Toll of the Chernobyl Disaster
Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear.
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Penetrating Curtains of Deceit: I.F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War’
The eruption of full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula advanced U.S. geopolitical interests and those of its key Asian clients; it also provided the pretext for President Truman to quadruple the military budget and create a militarized economy and foreign policy that remain with us to this day.
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What Do We Mean by Metabolic Rift?
Today the destruction wrought by capitalism manifests itself in climate change and destruction of the environment. We are now living with a gigantic and ever-growing ecological rift. By showing the rift is irreparable under capitalism, Marx made clear the need for ecosocialists to build a new system.
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Afghanistan | Capitalism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Moral Injury and the Forever Wars: What Americans Don’t Want to Hear
The author, a professor of global religions at Moravian University, examines the concept of moral injury, why so many veterans of America’s twenty-first-century forever wars have suffered from it, and why, for some, suicide has been the only solution.
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The Human Costs of iPhones
The iPhone is a technological wonder. Yet, how many of us users ever ask what are the conditions under which these iPhones are produced? What are these conditions doing to China’s workers, who assemble such wonderful instruments?
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What Is to be Done About Work?
A review of three important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form, including questions related to job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment.
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Capitalism | China | Economy | Online Blog | World Economy | World Politics
China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles
With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. However, the Chinese are acutely aware that with Western investment comes inequality. This interview examines the steps Beijing is beginning to take to tackle this.
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | People's movements | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Nepal’s People Resist U.S. Anti-China Alliance
Continuous protests shook the length and breadth of mountainous Nepal in September as the U.S. pushed again to chain this Asian country of 28 million people to its anti-China alliance through the Millenium Challenge Compact (MCC).
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The Politician-Scholar: Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery
Eric Williams’ groundbreaking ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ placed slavery at the heart of the rise of capitalism and the British Empire. But in his subsequent career as a politician – he became the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago – Williams was hardly seen as an avatar of radicalism.
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
In an age when violence turns into a spectacle, mass shootings become normalized, and violence becomes the primary language of politics, it becomes all the more difficult and yet necessary to remember the horror and legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
