Living on a Sci-Fi Planet
Once upon a time, who could have imagined that humanity would inherit the kinds of apocalyptic powers previously left to the gods or that, when we finally noticed them, we would prove eerily unable to respond?
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Germany’s Namibia Genocide Apology and the Limits of Decolonizing the Past
On the ramifications of the recent agreement between the German and Namibian governments for special “reconciliation and reconstruction” projects to benefit the Ovaherero and Nama communities that were directly affected by colonial genocide.
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Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Isn’t
In the USA, “Critical race theory” has, in recent times, become a catch-all phrase among legislators attempting to ban a wide array of teaching practices concerning race.
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Critique of the Misunderstanding Concerning Marx’s Base-Superstructure Spatial Metaphor
A clarification of the famed and famously misinterpreted spatial metaphor of the economic foundation and the political-legal superstructure.
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Why Even Capitalists are Now Pitching for Cash Transfers
The absurdity of conservative economic policy leading to shortage of people’s purchasing power is now becoming clear, even to capitalists, though not to Modi government.
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The Double Deformation
Economic exploitation is only one aspect of capitalism. The crisis of humanity and the crisis of the earth system are inseparable.
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Climate Change: More Terrifying News – Two Articles
Terrifying UN Draft Climate Report Urges Total Transformation of Our Way of Life; Lethal Heat Hits the Planet.
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UN General Assembly Once More Denounces US Blockade of Cuba
The UN General Assembly on June 23 overwhelmingly approved a Cuban resolution condemning the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba, in place for 60 years; 184 nations approved; two opposed, Israel and the USA; and three abstained, Colombia, Ukraine, and Brazil.
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The Larger Issues Underlying the Claim of Cairn Energy on Air India
Cairn Energy, a UK-based corporation, has filed a suit in New York to claim the international assets of Air India. A discussion of the larger issues involved, such as the relationship between big capital, especially international capital, and the State; and also the nature of the corporation itself.
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The Global COVID-19 Inequality Virus
The coronavirus pandemic has exasperated the existing inequality between the global rich and the global poor. It has done so geographically and in terms of class.
