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  • Western Marxism: The Unwholesome Temptation

    Western Marxism: The Unwholesome Temptation

    Image credit: Left Voice. The history of Marxism has a parallel history of counter-Marxism — intellectual currents that posture as the true Marxism. Even before Marxism came into being as a coherent ideology, Marx and Engels devoted an often-neglected section of their 1848 Communist Manifesto to debunking the existing contenders for true socialism. As the […]

  • Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?

    Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?

    Meas Sokhorn (Cambodia), Inverted Sewer, 2014. It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries is able to set the record on matters around the world. The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information, their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from their status during colonial […]

  • Exceptionism in US Empire

    Exceptionism in US Empire

    [S]uffice it to state that the US Guardian Elite are very much of and for the overworld of private wealth. Since the end of World War II, the US Guardian Elite have functioned most decisively as executors of dark power. — Aaron Good, American Exception, p 107 Aaron Good, who received his PhD in political […]

  • Why Can’t I Question Capitalism without Being Called a “Socialist”?

    “The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital.” (Michael Parenti) For as long as I’ve been writing, giving public talks, and all that, I have offered informed critiques of capitalism. For as long as I’ve been offering informed critiques of capitalism, I get replies like this: “I suppose you […]

  • The Only Populists that Billionaires Fund are Right-wingers

    The Only Populists that Billionaires Fund are Right-wingers

    The 372-page book that the European Center for Populism Studies published in March 2023, The Impacts of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Right-wing Populism in Europe, opens its Chapter (p. 200-209) on “The Russia-Ukraine War and Right-Wing Populism in Latvia” by saying something that has broad applicability across all U.S.-and-allied nations, Right-wing populism, and […]

  • May Day Resurrected

    Another May Day has come and gone, and most Americans never noticed. It wasn’t always like this. In decades past, thousands of workers of different ages, ethnicities and genders celebrated the first of May by marching in support of worker rights. Workers traditionally wore red on May Day to show unity in their struggle against […]

  • No More Foreign Interference in Haiti!

    Today, the United Nations Security Council is holding consultations on the future of Haiti. No Haitian individuals or organizations will be present at the meeting. Instead, Haiti will be represented by its occupying entities: The Core Group and the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), the mandate of which is set to expire on […]

  • Aggression, Guns, and Marcuse

    Better not knock on the wrong door or drive into the wrong driveway, you may get shot. Kids are afraid to go to school for fear of getting killed, as the body count from mass shootings climbs every day. Hate crimes are increasing, and just driving to work is potentially dangerous. Think of tailgaters honking […]

  • Whither Multipolarity in a Changing World Order

    The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci presciently observed: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” This period that we live in is arguably shaped by three elements: two moribund (the implosion of the USSR […]

  • The Latest NYT’s Hit Piece on China Is from Thomas Friedman

    Thanks to Thomas Friedman’s relentless service as a mouthpiece for US empire and capital, he’s permitted to continuously churn out his pseudo-thought piece every week. — Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work Thomas Friedman, a self-professed “liberal,” is the New York Times most widely read columnist and its most influential flak for […]

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