National Priorities Project Condemns Passage of a $778 Billion Pentagon Bill, Celebrates 70 House Lawmakers Who Opposed
December 8, 2021 – The House of Representatives yesterday voted to approve a $778 billion...
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Category: Political Economy
ALBA-TCP Ratifies Integrated Path for Development
Havana, Cuba December 17, 2021 At the 20th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the...
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Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture?
Why else? They want more billions. By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org November 11, 2021...
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When Have We Seen This Before?
By Greg Godels November 26, 2021 Fifty years ago, global capitalism came to a crossroads....
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The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11: $20 Trillion
By the National Priorities Project Sept. 1, 2021 Twenty years after 9/11, the war on terror...
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Oil and Gas Lobbying Spending Steady Ahead of U.N. Climate Change Conference
By Ariel Gans October 29, 2021 Open Secrets The oil and gas industry spent more than $81.9...
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The U.S. Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars: $8 Trillion
By Neta C. Crawford September 1, 2021 The United States, over the last two decades, has...
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The Return of Anti-Monopoly?
By Greg Godels September 14, 2021 Economic monopolies– enterprises or groups of...
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Defense Contractors Spent Big in Afghanistan before the U.S. Left and the Taliban Took Control
By Anna Massoglia and Julia Forrest, Open Secrets August 20, 2021 In the months leading up...
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Calculating the Costs of the Afghanistan War
By Neta C. Crawford, TheConversation.com September 1, 2021 The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in...
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Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual Property Rights vs. Human Rights
By Peter Rossman September 3, 2021 The multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is...
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Global Billionaire Pandemic Wealth Surges to $5.5 Trillion
By Chuck Collins, Counterpunch August 13, 2021 The world’s billionaires have seen their...
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A Forever-Increasing Pentagon Budget Undermines American Security
By the National Priorities Project May 28, 2021 The Biden administration today released their...
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Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers
By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org April 15, 2021 Update: U.S. Billionaire Pandemic Wealth...
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Capitalizing on Conflict: How Defense Contractors and Foreign Nations Lobby for Arms Sales
By Dan Auble, Open Secrets February 25, 2021 The U.S. defense sector secured $30.6 billion...
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Does Automation Spell the End of Capitalism?
Capitalism will not ‘automatically’ morph into some ‘postcapitalist’ or...
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October Surprise: Market Apocalypse?
By Greg Godels September 24, 2020 Volatility! That’s the word that Wall Street uses when investors...
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