The Amazon Robbery
By Margaret Kimberley November 21, 2018 The world’s richest man just pulled a con job on several...
Read More
Category: Political Economy
Global Military Spending at $1.7 trillion — SIPRI
By the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Total world military expenditure...
Read More
New NAFTA Deal Tightens the Corporate Handcuffs on Working People
By the CP Canada October 9, 2018 The NAFTA-USMCA agreement announced by the US and Canada has...
Read More
War Spending’s Share of US Federal Budget Growing Again
Animation by Will Geary September 2018 Not only is US military spending breaking records in...
Read More
The United States of Arms
By Will Geary July 2018 The US is the world’s largest weapons exporter. President Trump...
Read More
Nationalizing the Banks is a Popular Demand, So Let’s Demand It
By Glen Ford June 6, 2018 The following is an edited version of remarks Black Agenda Report...
Read More
Is There Really a Petty Bourgeoisie?
By Zoltan Zigedy July 5, 2016 As a tool of social analysis, the concept of class fell into...
Read More
Stirring the Energy Pot
By Greg Godels April 6, 2018 Since February 2017, I have written frequently about changes in the...
Read More
Economic Nationalism: What it Means
By Greg Godels December 28, 2017 In the throes of the 2007-2008 economic collapse, I projected...
Read More
A Nobel Prize for a Return to Reality?
October 25, 2017 By Zoltan Zigedy (Greg Godels) University of Chicago professor Richard...
Read More
Three Richest Americans Now Own More Wealth Than Bottom Half of US Combined
November 8, 2017 By Jake Johnson, staff write Common Dreams”The elite ranks of...
Read More
Trade, Trump, and Us
Editors’ note: We hope this opinion piece submitted by frequent contributor Charles Andrews...
Read More
The Politics of Oil
By Zoltan ZigedyFebruary 6, 2017 Since the military build-up leading to the First World War,...
Read More
U.S. Defense Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business
By Lee Fang The Intercept (Brazil) Aug 19, 2016...
Read More
Searching for the White Working Class
By Zoltan Zigedy August 4, 2016 The Wall Street Journal calls them the “forgotten...
Read More
Capitalism and the Jobs Crisis: Charles Andrews’ The Hollow Colossus
By Allan Miller April 25, 2016 Charles Andrews’ latest book, The Hollow Colossus (Needle...
Read More
Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Equals a U.S. Aircraft Carrier
October 17, 2015By Stephen Gowans What’s LeftThe U.S. political elite is never entirely...
Read More
New 2015 Wealth Data: U.S. Inequality at its Ugliest
According to new Credit Suisse data, nearly 50 million of America’s 243 million adults are...
Read More