Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.
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Afghanistan’s Socialist Years: the Promising Future Killed Off by U.S. Imperialism
While everyone is talking of the desperate situation of the Afghani people under the dictatorial Taliban, almost no one talks about the effort the Afghan people made in the late 1970s and ’80s to pull free of the legacy of incessantly warring tribes and feudal fiefdoms and start to build a modern democratic state.
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GPI vs. GDP: Does Size Matter More Than Substance?
U.S House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) recently introduced a bill in Congress to overhaul GDP, the nation’s most watched economic indicator. She introduced the Genuine Progress Indicator (“GPI”) Act. It would be a significant change for the trajectory of the socio-economic system.
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Humanity Isn’t Burning the Planet – Capitalism Is
Not all humans are equally culpable in the ‘human-induced’ climate chaos outlined in Monday’s IPCC report – and acknowledging that is key to stopping further destruction.
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A Major Lesson of the Pandemic From the East
Up to now, the US has suffered over 617,000 deaths; China in contrast has suffered fewer than 5,000 deaths in a population four times as large as the US. Could there not be some lessons that might serve us in the West now and in the future?
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A Day in the Death of British Justice
The WikiLeaks’ leak of a Pentagon document dated 15 March, 2009 foretold the current war on journalism. U.S. intelligence, it said, intended to destroy WikiLeaks’ and Julian Assange’s “centre of gravity” with threats and “criminal prosecution”.
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Global Billionaire Pandemic Wealth Surges to $5.5 Trillion
As the wealth divide grows deeper, global advocates call for one-time 99 percent emergency tax on billionaires’ pandemic windfalls to fund Covid-19 vaccines for entire world.
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Globalized Food Systems, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19
In the creation of capitalist, globalized food systems, patterns of structural inequality based on social class hierarchies and racism become ever more apparent and problematic. This article discusses these conditions, from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Tokyo Games Prove that the Olympics are Less Relevant than Ever; Also – Overt Sexualisation at the Games
We ought to focus on fixing our own problems rather than investing our scarce resources in a spectacle that costs us more than we can afford to give. Also – ‘Overt Sexualization’: Why Olympic Women Athletes Ran into Uniform Trouble Before the Games.
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When Less Is More
A viable human future depends on living with less. Does that mean sacrifice? Leaving more people behind? Or is this challenge an unprecedented opportunity to achieve a better future for all? The question of how much is enough poses a foundational question for our time.
