History Gives Reason to Hope That We Can Beat Inequality
Not surprisingly, fighting inequality has always been an uphill battle, but history gives some insight on tactics.
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Michael Hudson: Debt, Land and Money, From Polanyi to the New Economic Archaeology
Tracing key influences on Karl Polanyi as welll as some of his important initiatives after The Great Transformation.
Read more...Steve Keen: Eulogy to David Graeber
A personal remembrance of the scholar and activist David Graeber.
Read more...Are Riots Counterproductive, and Who Decides?
Riots and street violence are often blamed for producing a political backlash, but the real picture is more complex.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part IV – The Journey into a Libertarian Past
The libertarian justification of hierarchies and expropriation of land.
Read more...Could Religious Exemptions Trump a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate? Well, That Depends
How far could US authorities readily go in implemeting a vaccine requirement?
Read more...Teachers Strike Authorization Vote Looms as Union and City Launch Last-Ditch Safety Talks
Teachers are going down to the wire with a strike threat in New York City over their assessment that planned Covid protections are inadequate.
Read more...You Know In Your Heart That the Day of Real Resistance Is Coming
First demonstrations across the US, now a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’ house. Is this more #Resistance or a system-breaking resistance?
Read more...‘They Have Nowhere To Run’: Inmate Families, Advocates Push for Prisoner Release as California Wildfires Engulf State
The prisons that house some inamets lie in the path of wildfires, and California hasn’t yet furloughed them or moved them to safety.
Read more...Something Remarkable Just Happened This August: How the Pandemic Has Sped Up the Passage to Postcapitalism
Yanis Varioufakis discusses the emerging shape of postcapitalism.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part II – The Strategy
Where you wind up when you take libertarian ideas to their logical conclusion…..
Read more...Apollo’s Leon Black, Found in Serial Child Rapist Jeffrey Epstein’s Black Book, Patronized Strip Club in Russia With Trump
Apollo’s Leon Black needs to develop better taste in friends.
Read more...Grim Future of Cities: State’s Growing Budget Hole Threatens New York City Jobs, Services
The New York City budget hole is getting bigger. How much of a harbinger is this for other US cities?
Read more...“Everything’s Fine”: The Comfortable, the Afflicted, the Beakwetters, the Gaslit
Rant, annotated.
Read more...‘Morality Pills’ May Be the US’s Best Shot at Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic, According to One Ethicist
An ethicist seriously suggests forced medication to increase cooperation with pandemic mask-wearing.
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