Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
Treating water as a tradable commodity puts a basic human right into the hands of financial institutions and investors.
Clare Grady at 100 Seconds To Midnight
Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s murder, seven white, aging Catholic peace activists cut a fence and enter Georgia’s Kings Bay Naval Base, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world.
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Why COVID-19 Granted the U.S. Most Favored Nation Status
Because the ‘Greatest Country in the World’ is so damn savagely capitalist, imperialist-militarist, unequal, plutocratic, and racist.
While Billionaire Wealth Soars, Millions Being Pushed into Poverty: Six Short Articles
During the pandemic that has taken everything from millions, top 1% households continue to gain wealth – in the USA alone, billionaires have collectively gained over $1 trillion. Also: “Landmark Study Shows $427 Billion Lost Each Year to Tax Dodging by Corporations and the Rich”.
The Marketisation of Truth
A combination of free-market primacy and culturally-led political-economic dogma, often pushed by small, well-financed private institutions, has paved the way for a slow but steady attack on all ethics, values and ideas that cannot be economised and traded.
Engels Still Lives at 200
Engels’ theoretical work was able to widen the battlefield for Marxism, entering terrains in which Marx did not get involved – or rather, in which he was nourished by the writings of his friend.
For a United Front Against the Payment of Public and Private Illegitimate Debts
We call on the countries of the South to exercise their right and to suspend the payment of their debt by invoking three arguments that are so pertinent and legitimate at this point of time …
India’s Farewell to ASEAN as it Boards RCEP Train
The ASEAN is boarding the RCEP train all set to depart and India is stranded while its two other QUAD partners – Japan and Australia – are on board and can be seen in the dining car holding Chinese chopsticks.
Europe and the Pandemic
Toussant talks about whether the present economic crisis is due to the Covid-19 pandemic, on the role of the IMF, on the consequences for states and people, and the role of progressive forces.
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America’s Labor Crisis
One of the most important aspects of this crisis is the U.S. economy’s diminishing capacity to provide employment.