The Great Dispossession
And The Battle For The Future Of Food In India By Colin Todhunter If there’s one country that captures the global battle over who controls the basic building blocks of life, it’s India. With more…
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When Survival Becomes a Crime
Commentary by William Murphy When survival becomes illegal in your own city, displacement isn’t a side effect—it’s the policy. This is the quiet logic of the Erasure Economy: a political system that systematically removes people…
We’re Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World
But There’s a Degrowth Exit up Ahead By Stan Cox Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don’t bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we’re doing nothing less than cooking ourselves….
Duke Energy Seeks Higher Rates, Profits
in NC Despite Soaring Disconnections By Sue Sturgis Duke Energy has asked North Carolina regulators to approve major rate hikes for both of its North Carolina utilities while also increasing the “return on equity” that…
Making ‘Tax the Rich’ More Than a Slogan
By Max Page Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine. Here’s what passing the Fair Share Amendment in Massachusetts allowed us to do, in just the…
The Global Gag Order Shielding Corporate Tax Cheaters
By Mark Bou Mansour A US-backed global gag order preventing governments from revealing the names of multinational corporations found shifting billions into tax havens has caused countries to miss out on over US$475 billion in…
From Coast to Coast, the Public Banking Movement Grows
By Marco Rosaire Rossi After years of being considered a niche concept, relegated to a few academic articles and zealous activists, the idea of public banking is about to hit the mainstream. From coast to…
California Bans Coercive Pricing Algorithms
By Lee Hepner Popular depictions of cartels evoke secretive, dangerous—shamelessly glamorized—drug cartels. Or corporate whistleblowers being trailed, wiretapped, and threatened by anonymous thugs with chiseled jaws and tinted windows. Of course, there are the fat…
Kerala Has Abolished Extreme Poverty
By Vijay Prashad On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala—home to 34 million people—was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Kerala is one of the few places in…
China Cuts a Supply Chain
Antimony and the existential fragility of American military power By Shanaka Anslem Perera I. The confession hidden in plain sight Buried in paragraph 47 of the Defense Logistics Agency’s September 2025 contract announcement was a…