Michael Hudson and Vijay Prashad: How Hyper-Imperialism Shapes Global Conflict
A rich discussion of how industrial capitalism evolved into imperialism and how its impulses and contradictions are creating more fractures.
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What Davos 2026 Can Tell Us About the World That Is Coming
Davos 2026 points to a new world order—technocratic, executive and corporate—powered by AI and digital currencies
Read more...Greenland and Irrational Responses to the Crisis of Capital Accumulation
The case that the tech bros desire for freedom cities and need for AI energy is driving the Greenland obsession.
Read more...‘Could I Be in Their Cabinet?’: Big Business Eyes Up Reform
How Nigel Farage’s ‘anti-establishment’ party began a love affair with lobbyists and industry leaders.
Read more...How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown
Did COVID-19 deepen the crises of capitalism and inject a sense of panic into the world’s power struggles?
Read more...Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis
Utah aims to produce a model for Trump plan—an isolated “Accountability Campus” where commits will be reformed. Other states and localities are not far behind.
Read more...Why Do We Still Have Poverty?
Richard Murphy explains how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty — using fear and insecurity to keep wages low, rents high, and wealth flowing up to the richest.
Read more...Why Did Britain Stop Making?
And now how exactly does it plan to ready for war?
Read more...The E.U. ‘Derisks’ Itself Into Another Disaster
Despite years of supposed preparation, the bloc is now scrambling for rare earths. Will the US have any more success?
Read more...Tracing a Line Between Israeli Pager Attacks and Ukraine Collapse to the Tennessee Munitions Factory Explosion that Killed 16 Workers in an Impoverished Region of the U.S.
The so-called ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ goes up in smoke.
Read more...As Pentagon Takes Secretive Donation for Military Salaries, AFL-CIO Says Pay All Workers Impacted by Shutdown
Is the $130 million “gift” to the Pentagon a trial balloon for further military privatization?
Read more...Who’s Profiting off of the Criminalization of Homelessness?
Private equity, for one, which cashes in at nearly every stage of the American homelessness crisis.
Read more...Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
The so-called opposition, with a much-needed rebranding assist from the Nobel Committee, proposes total economic surrender to US oligarchic interests.
Read more...U.S. Military Leaders Plan to Use the Killing of Charlie Kirk to Boost Recruitment. Will It Work?
The armed forces face much bigger problems than can be solved by a useful martyr and a catchy slogan.
Read more...How Private Equity Is Corroding Education in the UK
The Government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern
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