Category: Political Economy
Paper Tiger: The US Trillion-Dollar War Machine
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies August 13 2026 With its unwinnable war on Iran,...
Read MoreAmericans Are Not Wealthy: The Truth about the US Economy
By Ben Norton August 15, 2026 Geopolitical Economy US media outlets constantly promote a...
Read MoreOil Majors Profits Doubling With Iran War
By Jake Johnson July 31, 2026 Consortium News Shell posted nearly $10 billion in...
Read MoreNATO Summit Promises Billions for Arms industry
By Ana Vračar July 9, 2026 Breakthrough News Heads of state and governments from the...
Read MoreThe Arithmetic of a World in Flames
Pictured above: Over 75% of Trump’s Budget Is for Military and Police. By María Julia...
Read MoreThe Real Cost of the Iran War: $72 Billion for the First 60 Days
By Stephen Semler May 6, 2026 Popular Information Popular Information crunches the...
Read MoreTrump’s Budget Has Endless Funds for War, but Not Much to Help Americans
By Lindsay Koshgarian April 3, 2026 National Priorities Project The president’s budget...
Read MoreBillionaire Wealth Has Doubled So Far This Decade
By David Dayen March 27, 2026 The American Prospect Inequality has boomed so much in the...
Read MorePentagon Doesn’t Even Know What to Do With Extra $500 Billion Trump Wants to Spend
By Jake Johnson February 23, 2026 Common Dreams “Not another cent for private defense...
Read MoreThe Situation Is Scary: Global Economic Chaos as Trump’s Iran War Sends Markets Diving
By Brad Reed March 9, 2026 Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and...
Read MoreThe Costs of Militarized Rivalry with China: A First Estimate
By Jennifer Kavanagh March 2026 According to Jennifer Kavanagh, Senior Fellow &...
Read MoreMr. Ip and the Wall Street Journal Discover Wealth Inequality
By Greg Godels February 25, 2026 It was in 2013 that Thomas Piketty rediscovered the...
Read MoreIs It about the Oil?
By Greg Godels January 18, 2026 “No War for Oil” is one of the most popular slogans in the...
Read MoreKeeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesn’t Make Sense
By Liza Featherstone December 29, 2025 Jacobin All over the country, Americans are...
Read MoreThe World Economy’s Center of Gravity Shifts to Asia
By Vijay Prashad October 30, 2025 Tricontinental.org The US has tried to use economic and...
Read MoreStagflation: Stagnation, Inflation, and Beyond
By Greg Godels October 29, 2025 Since my prediction in April of 2007 of an impending economic...
Read MoreWar Signals, Quiet Channels, and Venezuela’s Discounted Barrels
By Elias Ferrer September 22, 2025 OilPrice.com This post has the interesting tidbit that the...
Read MoreAs Ellison Buys TikTok, the US Moves toward One-Party Media
By Ari Paul September 19, 2025 FAIR.org . Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm...
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