White Nationalism and Crony Capitalism Are the Sparks That Started Fires in the Amazon

✑ PRABIR PURKAYASTHA` ╱ ± 7 minutes
This is what capital and their ideologues call releasing the animal spirits of capital.

Can Capitalists Afford Economic Growth? - An Animation

✑ ELVIRE THOUVENOT, (BASED ON SHIMSHON BICHLER & JONATHAN NITZAN)` ╱ ± 10 minutes
Capitalists seek not more income per se.

Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy

✑ MICHAEL HUDSON` ╱ ± 11 minutes
A Green program cannot succeed without confronting the National Security state’s mentality aiming at U.S. oil supremacy.

The G7 countries look feeble — Iran and Brazil could shore them up

✑ VIJAY PRASHAD` ╱ ± 5 minutes
Nothing of significance was discussed with seriousness at this meeting.

The Political Economy of Peterloo

✑ MICHAEL ROBERTS` ╱ ± 10 minutes
1819 was a year right in the middle of such a Winter.

The Dubious Logic of Commodification

✑ CHRIS DILLOW` ╱ ± 4 minutes
Raising the pension age is an act of commodification in two different senses.

Trump’s Other Wall

✑ JACK RASMUS` ╱ ± 4 minutes
He thinks that is great news for the US economy. But it’s quite the opposite.

A False Theory

✑ PRABHAT PATNAIK` ╱ ± 7 minutes
Why does finance capital advance this argument even after ninety years of its being clearly disproved?

Out of the Ashes of Puerto Rico’s Economy Emerges a Promising Currency for All

✑ VALERIE VANDE PANNE` ╱ ± 7 minutes
What the currency shows is the values of the Puerto Rican community.