The War That Time Forgot
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Drone targeting footage, Afghanistan. Photo: USAF. I hear it all the time. The most crucial decision of this century was the vote to go to war against Iraq. It’s meant to serve […]
Category: Politics
The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water
By Jo-Shing Yang Global Research, This article was first published on December 21, 2012 by Market Oracle and Global Research A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the […]
“Thank You for Calling” Documentary: Unspoken Health Impacts of the Worldwide Mobile Phone Industry
By Electromagnetic Sense Ireland Mobile telephony has quickly established itself worldwide as an irreplaceable communication technology. Similar to smoking, however, possible fatal consequences can only become apparent after decades of constantly increased exposure to radiation. The […]
Boris Johnson Accused of ‘Power Grab’ over Scotland’s Post-Brexit Powers
By Johanna Ross The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has lambasted the British government over reports that it may control rights over ‘state aid’ after Brexit. ‘State aid’, which allows a government to subsidise companies, is […]
The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy
By Andrew Jackson Modern Monetary Theory or MMT has crept in from the academic margins to become an influential doctrine in progressive policy circles in the United States. Both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders drew on the ideas of MMT […]
Money Capital versus “Life Capital”. Prof. John McMurtry
The War of Values We Live or Die By By Prof. John McMurtry and Dr. Jeffery Klaehn Author of UNESCOs ‘Philosophy and World Problems’, Professor John McMurtry is questioned on the planetary life-system crisis by media critic Dr. Jeffery Klaehn. Klaehn: You have stated […]
“Into the World of Bad Spirits”: Slavery and Plantation Culture
by MICHAEL WELTON Between 1500 and 1880 ten to eleven million Africans were moved by force and terror into “new worlds.” Sir Philip Sherlock and Hazel Bennett write of the immensity of the “physical suffering, anguish […]
UK’s Labour Leader Sacks the Most Left-Wing Member of His Shadow Cabinet
by KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: Chris McAndrew – CC BY 3.0 As a Labour party member, it is unavoidable that I should have an opinion on the party leader Keir Starmer’s sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey. RLB was […]
Will Covid Start a Trade War Over U.S. Meat Exports?
by MARTHA ROSENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On June 21, the official China website posted that products from Tyson Foods’ Springdale, Arkansas plant “that have arrived or are about to arrive in Hong Kong will be temporarily […]
How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
by RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their […]