CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats.
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Ellen Meiksins Wood facts for kids
Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942–January 14, 2016) was an important American-Canadian thinker and historian.
Lula to Trump: If you charge us 50%, we’ll charge you 50%. Brazil must be respected!
The diplomatic row devolved into a potential trade crisis when Trump threatened Brazil with higher tariffs on Brazilian products if it did not cease the alleged persecution of the ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Using false statistics to claim ‘zero poverty’ helps nobody
The information on increase in hunger is far more direct and based on readily verifiable statistics, than are the official calculations of poverty.
Hard Truths About the US Labor Movement: An Interview with Chris Townsend
Chris Townsend has been organizing workers, conducting political work for labor unions, and teaching young workers to organize for almost all his adult life. He is, as we say, “the real deal.” While most of us opine and pontificate about labor, Chris does the dirty...
Trump escalates Ukraine war-Putin acknowledges reality is turning out to be Marxist
By Russian as well as Anglo-American neurological and psychiatric standards, this man is a certifiable maniac.
John Bellamy Foster facts for kids
John Foster's early research looked at how money and power work. He studied how big companies grow and affect the economy. His first book, The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism, explored these ideas.
Collaborators like Al Sharpton can’t assist Zohran Mamdani with circumventing pigmentation politics and the Black misleadership class…but principled Black radical organizing can
Zohran Mamdani’s victory rattled NYC’s political elite. But to win Black voters and defeat the Democrat machine, he must reject Al Sharpton’s co-optation and align with radical Black organizers.
What is BRICS and where is it going?
How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order.
The ‘economy of genocide’ Report: A reckoning beyond rhetoric
Albanese’s ‘Economy of Genocide’ is far more than an academic exercise or a mere moral statement in a world whose collective conscience is being brutally tested in Gaza.
The Start of Indigenous Agriculture in North America and the American Genocide
A recent paper in Science addresses an intriguing question: Did North America have settled agriculture before the arrival of Europeans? Or were the people in what would come to be known as North America still in the hunter-gatherer stage—unlike Mesoamericans, who had...
The Costs of Covid
The Covid pandemic’s onset prompted speculation that the disease had been created in a lab in China, specifically as a weapon against the United States. This new and highly contagious virus did wreak profound socioeconomic trauma and widespread suffering, borne...