Commentary by Michael D. Yates A cornerstone of Donald Trump’s economic policies is tariffs. Claiming that just about every country in the world has ripped off the United States—even stating that the European Union was…
Here’s What It Means for Global Trade By Lori Ann LaRocco A key supply chain data point is flashing red, warning that the pullback in freight orders will continue. Empty container exports is a forward-looking…
By Aidan J. Simardone The weaponization of global finance has become a cornerstone of US foreign policy. Central to this has been Washington’s control over the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a financial…
By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS — The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are usually placid, forgettable affairs. Not this year. Several central bankers returned home with a visceral sense of…
By Jon Letman In 2024, for the fifth year in a row, the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations increased spending on nuclear weapons, according to a report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons…
By Teresa Cotsirilos and Ted Genoways The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the…
How 15 years of budget cutting has impacted NC Commentary by Rob Schofield Several important policy priorities have defined conservative Republican governance of North Carolina during the last 15 years – the culture wars, the…
How this legal worker visa became a human trafficking scheme By Katie Nixdorf and Paul Blest In recent years, a massive scheme to traffic and exploit vulnerable agricultural workers has taken shape in the US….
By Eileen Markey On May 20 housing justice groups including People’s Action, VOCAL-NY, Texas Organizing Project, Arkansas Community Organization and others rallied in DC—and in more than a dozen communities from Duluth to Akron to…
No country should go through what Venezuela has been going through since 2017. By Vijay Prashad U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures, or UCMs) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent…