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In the ruins of the present
Raoul Peck, the Haitian lmmaker, opens his film – Der Junge Karl Marx (2017) – in the forests of Prussia. Peasants gather fallen wood. They look cold and hungry. We hear horses in the distance. The guards and the aristocrats are near. They have come to claim the right to everything in the forest. The […]
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Gun controls in old East Germany
Strict weapons’ laws in the old East Germany, undoubtedly a restriction of on freedom, meant that there were virtually no shooting deaths and never a single mass shooting, in schools or anywhere else.
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Google and corporate news giants forge alliance to defeat independent journalism
The “new media” monopolists of Silicon Valley and the once-dominant traditional print media have clearly agreed that the “fake news” frenzy is a convenient pretext to step up their censorship of the internet through new algorithms, allowing them to boost their profit margins and silence opposition through a new framework of “algorithmic censorship.”
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Imperialist realities vs. the myths of David Harvey
When David Harvey says “the historical draining of wealth from East to West for more than two centuries has largely been reversed over the last thirty years,” his readers will reasonably assume that he refers to a defining feature of imperialism, namely the plunder of living labour and natural wealth in colonies and semi-colonies by […]
- In the ruins of the present March 26, 2018
- Who will stop the U.S.-Russia arms race? March 26, 2018
- Surveillance capitalism and the state: Facebook devastated on multiple fronts as data theft crisis grows March 26, 2018
- Gun controls in old East Germany March 25, 2018
- Can the Monroe Doctrine triumph in the 21st century? March 24, 2018
- Gender and capital 150 years later March 24, 2018
- U.S. trade deficits, Trump trade policies, and capitalist globalization March 24, 2018
- Google and corporate news giants forge alliance to defeat independent journalism March 24, 2018
- The new CIA director nominee and the massacre at My Lai March 23, 2018
- Today’s capitalism was born in slavery March 23, 2018
- Buyback this! March 23, 2018
- Imperialist realities vs. the myths of David Harvey March 22, 2018
- Willetts the conqueror (part 4): audit culture March 22, 2018
- Is another world possible? March 21, 2018
- Enclosed thinking March 21, 2018
- Does capitalism depend on credit? March 21, 2018
- Nervous about Russia March 20, 2018
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Loaded & Gregg Levine on Fukushima Daichi radiation March 20, 2018
- The March 2018 Italian elections: suicide of the left, resurgence of fascism, and chaos March 20, 2018
- Half a year on from Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans lack running water and electricity March 19, 2018
- Utopia and healthcare (part 2) March 19, 2018
- In defence of Metabolic Rift Theory March 18, 2018
- French ruling elite brays for war in Syria amid U.S.-UK threats against Russia March 17, 2018
- Imperialism today: a critical assessment of Latin American dependency theory March 17, 2018