The Sanctioned: How Iran-Russia are Setting New Rules
While China, keen to ward off US sanctions as long as possible, is lagging, its RIC partners Iran and Russia are doing the legwork to break the west’s global financial grip.
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Formula Shortage: Monopoly Capitalism Is Starving American Babies
With store shelves stripped of baby formula, families across the USA are getting desperate. It is actually a problem of monopoly capitalism – the formula industry in the United States, like so many others, is highly concentrated. And one of these monopolies has shut down – due to a bacterial infection.
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Nineteen of Fortune 100 Companies Paid Nominal or No Tax in 2021
A CAP analysis shows companies like Amazon and Microsoft paid less than 10% tax while AT&T and Dow claimed a refund.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Time for a “Strategic Pause” on Corporate Welfare to Profitable Companies
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on April 6, 2022, called for a “strategic pause” on corporate welfare to profitable companies during remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Text of his speech.
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Lula Launches Presidential Pre-candidacy
On May 7, Lula announced his candidacy for the presidential elections to take place in Brazil in October this year. A transcript of this speech before a jubilant crowd of thousands of union workers and social movement activists, at the launch of the ‘Let’s go together for Brazil’ movement.
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Washington Watches as China and Latin America Deepen Their Ties
The U.S. is getting increasingly worried about the increased connections between China and the Latin American region in trade, telecommunications and transportation networks.
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Capitalism | Online Blog | Russia | Ukraine | USA | World Economy
Russia Pushes Back Western Sanctions, Revs Up Operation in Eastern Ukraine
All indications are that the contingency planning that Russia had worked out to pull through a severe sanctions regime is paying off. The ruble’s recovery has been absolutely astounding. Plus: extract from – “US Narrative Won’t Survive Defeat in Donbass”.
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From Rachel Carson to Monsanto: The Silence of Spring
June 2022 marks 60 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s iconic book ‘Silent Spring’, that documented the adverse impact of indiscriminate use of pesticides on the environment. Since then, Monsanto has mounted a deceitful defence of its health- and environment-damaging pesticides and orchestrated toxic smear campaigns against Carson and other scientist campaigners.
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Beyond Eurocentrism
In this book, Amin argues that the story of capitalism emerging from endogenous European characteristics of rationality and triumph – which continues to dominate social theory – is distorting. It disguises the true nature of the capitalist system, including the role of imperialism and racism in its history.
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If You Like the Idea of a 4-Day Workweek, You’ll Love the 5-Hour Workday; Also: Belgian Workers Win Right to Request Four-Day Week
Some companies are implementing shorter workdays while others are opting for shorter workweeks increasing productivity. Meanwhile, Belgium in mid-February announced a package of labor reforms that includes affording workers the right to request a four-day work week.
