A Critique of Obscene Wealth
A critique of the ideological justifications given by extremely rich people today to justify their obscene wealth.
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Capitalism | China | COVID19 | Online Blog | World Economy | World Politics
China Shows it Is Possible to Beat Covid
A compilation from two articles: China, with 1.4 billion people, has kept total cases below 100,000 and total deaths below 5,000. By comparison, the United States, with less than a quarter of the population of China, has had more than 50 million cases and 800,000 deaths.
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People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
The realization of authentic freedom and human dignity can only come about through victory over Pan European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy. With people centred human rights, we have an ideological weapon for advancing this struggle.
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The U.S. Military Budget as a Mushroom Cloud: Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon
A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel considers a military in which the losses are all on the battlefield, and the gains are all in the Congress as well as in the military-industrial complex that continues to soar like a missile in a moment when so many other parts of this society are sinking fast.
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Capital versus Commons, Part 4: Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor.
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
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Capitalism | Climate Change | Online Blog | Science | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles
2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Latin America | Online Blog | People's movements | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Highland Resistance: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part I)
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes.
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Capitalism | Elections | Fascism | Imperialism | Latin America | People's movements | Print Edition | Socialism | USA | World Economy | World Politics
The Fierce Determination of Ordinary People to Build an Extraordinary World
United States President Joe Biden has suborned 111 countries to attend his Summit for Democracy on December 9–10, ending on Human Rights Day. In the name of democracy, the U.S. government is pushing its own agenda to consolidate power and further its national interests.
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Capitalism | Climate Change | Imperialism | Latin America | People's movements | Print Edition | Socialism | USA | World Economy | World Politics
High Court Delivers ‘Victory’ for Rights of Nature Movement in Ecuador
On December 1, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that mining in a protected forest violates the rights of nature established by the nation’s constitution.
