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Petro-market civilization
by Tim Di Muzio Prologue: The Rule of Threes Lending weight to the popular saying that bad things always come in threes, three events in April of 2010 underscored the level of capitalist… Read More →
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Taking notes 6: We are fine in Gaza — How are you?
by Magid Shihade In celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Communist Party in Syria and Lebanon, the Palestinian singer and writer — Khaled El-Hibr sang these words: We are fine in Gaza How… Read More →
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Taking notes 7: Human Rights or Imperial Partnership?
by Zoltan Zigedy Amnesty International has a bee under its bonnet. A human rights advocate, educator, and labor attorney, Dan Kovalik, mustered the audacity to challenge the world’s most prominent and...
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Neoliberal terror and the age of disposability
by Henry A. Giroux The winners in the disposable society circulate close to the top of the power pyramid… Those who can’t afford to be on the move stand little chance…Market freedom means… Read More →
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The economy of violence: Waste, expenditure and surplus
From ignorance lead me to truth From darkness lead me to light From death lead me to immortality — Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad, I.iii.28 by Sanjay Perera We are living in a time when the… Read More →
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The planetary emergency
by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark Capitalism today is caught in a seemingly endless crisis, with economic stagnation and upheaval circling the globe.1 But while the world has been fixated on the…...
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The New Extremism: Politics of distraction in the Age of Austerity
by Henry A. Giroux The debate in both Washington and the mainstream media over austerity measures, the alleged fiscal cliff and the looming debt crisis not only function to render anti-democratic...
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Lockdown, USA: The Boston marathon manhunt
by Henry A. Giroux A tragedy of errors: nobody knows any more who is who. The smoke of the explosions forms part of the much larger curtain of smoke that prevents all of… Read More →
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Capitalism’s dead zone: Chicago’s lessons on the violence of inequality
by Henry A. Giroux I consider the survival of [fascism] within democracy to be potentially more menacing that the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy. — Theodor W. Adorno Americans are...
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Student loans: The financialized economy of indentured servitude
by Danny Weil Get ready students: your college student loans are due to double on July 2013! The cost of higher education is spiraling and with it the cost of student loans, one… Read More →
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To go beyond the capitalist state
by Steve Fraser “All that is solid melts into air” is even truer about the hyper-flux of everyday life today than it was when those words first appeared in the Communist Manifesto more… Continue reading →
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The economic unconscious
by Sanjay Perera Woman, eternally, /shows us the way. — Faust, Goethe Supposing truth is a woman — what then? — Beyond good and evil, Nietzsche A. Introduction It may still seem novel… Continue reading →
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Noam Chomsky: Surviving the 21st Century
Noam Chomsky (2014): “Surviving the 21st Century” This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Their morals and ours
by Leon Trotsky Moral effluvia During an epoch of triumphant reaction, Messrs. democrats, social-democrats, anarchists, and other representatives of the “left” camp begin to exude double their usual...
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How will capitalism end?
by Wolfgang Streeck There is a widespread sense today that capitalism is in critical condition, more so than at any time since the end of the Second World War.[1] Looking back, the crash… Continue...
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ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism: Resisting mainstream workstations of fear
by Henry A. Giroux The use of new digital technologies and social media by ISIS has drawn a great deal of attention by the dominant media not only because the extremists have used… Continue reading →
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The ‘new’ Imperialism
by Zoltan Zigedy Imperialism, expressed as a nation’s securing economic dominance of, influence over, or advantage from other nations, remains much as Lenin characterized it in his 1916 pamphlet,...
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Taking notes 47: Black Americans and the military: this country is not to die...
by William C. Anderson If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong...
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ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse
by Sanjay Perera This Ragnarök finale that ISIS is hung up on is in effect exemplary in its utilitarian approach of the ends justifies the means thinking that underlies the rationality of its Apocalypse.
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The sharing economy: an alternative to capitalist exploitation?
by Jeff Noonan Sharing is an unambiguous good only when it stems from caring, and what is shared is life-valuable, i.e., it meets a real need.
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