We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025). The right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In...
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The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
Some of David Graeber’s basic assumptions about money and public provisioning limit what the left can imagine and accomplish.
Towards a political economy of Asia
An analysis of the Asia regions division of labor, uneven development, and regional dynamics drawing from Tricontinental Asia’s latest intervention.
Richest 0.001% now own three times more wealth than poorest half of humanity combined
The choices we make in the coming years will determine whether the global economy continues down a path of extreme concentration or moves toward shared prosperity.
Tankers, sanctions, and the New Front of the Global Majority – From Venezuela to Iran, from the Caribbean to the Gulf of Oman
After the Trump Regime Hijacks a Venezuelan Vessel, Iran hits back by Confiscating an Oil Tanker, the Phoenix, under Cook Islands Flag.
Toxic smog engulfs Delhi, prompts health advisories from UK, Canada, Singapore
The relatively empty roads have not brought relief, as measures taken to control emissions fail to show results, partly due to weather conditions.
Yves Engler: from a campaign for leadership of the Canadian NDP to a protest campaign
If they had accused Yves of being too progressive, too bold, too blunt, I would understand, but the reasons they give make me suspect that they haven’t read his books and articles.
John Bellamy Foster, “Breaking the Bonds of Fate” (Book Launch)
The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
Israeli bulldozer crushing of a wounded child exemplifies horrific killing pattern in Gaza
States Parties to the Genocide Convention, as well as other influential states, must take concrete and immediate steps to prevent the continuation of genocide in Gaza, including halting the supply of weapons and military support to Israel that are used to commit...
Economics and Capitalism
If the maintenance of full employment is impossible under capitalism, then so is the maintenance of a welfare state.
U.S. regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal
Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the U.S. gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mobilized as the U.S. sought to neutralize Chinese and Indian influence over Kathmandu–now controlled by a leader...
FBI is making an enemies list—and most Corporate Media didn’t even check it once
This is the implementation of the Trump administration’s avowed policy of criminalizing dissent—in the words of the NSPM-7 decree, outlawing “organized campaigns of…radicalization…designed to…change or direct policy outcomes”—and as such is another giant step towards...











