Turn the Lights Back On
Witnessing the Cruel Effects of the U.S. Oil Blockade Against Cuba. By Nathan J. Robinson The whole city is dark. No streetlights. No lights in the windows. No TV. No AC. Occasionally there’s a solar…
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Oil, American Oligarchy, and the Myth of Development
Commentary by Percy C. Hintzen During the 1950s and 1960s, development economists Walt W. Rostow and Sir William Arthur Lewis convinced governments of the Global South that dependence upon Euro-America is the only path to…
Rise in Oil Prices Set to Hit the Global Economy
Commentary by Prabhat Patnaik World oil prices have finally crossed $100 per barrel this week-end and have even touched $110. Considering the fact that they were around $69 per barrel before the beginning of imperialist…
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…
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…