Why I Became A Socialist
Commentary by Carl Hintz When I was 7 the US invaded Iraq. It was a war based on a lie. Like all wars, organized state sanctioned killing, it came at the irreparable cost of human…
Economy
NC Food Pantries Fill The Gap After Funding Cuts
By Kara Hoving For Haywood Christian Ministry (HCM), the past year has been one of fast and dramatic pendulum swings. At the end of 2024, the Waynesville-based nonprofit was fully immersed in Hurricane Helene relief…
North Carolina’s Community Land Trusts
The Struggle for Affordable Housing By Greg Childress North Carolina’s community land trusts are working to raise the profile of their housing preservation model, which its members see as a vital tool in the struggle…
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…
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…