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Tony Norfield looks at China-US power relations and examines whether the US can stop China’s rise. This was first published on Tony’s Economics of Imperialism blog.
Rebellion is the Gateway to Our Future
Rampant editorial collective statement PostedJune 1, 2020 If police brutality, the pandemic, and impending economic depression robbed us all of a future, this rebellion is the beginning of our collective struggle to take it back. We are in the middle of the most powerful upsurge of nationwide urban rebellions since the 1960s. This rebellion is a long time coming. While the future is uncertain, it is clear that a tremendous force was unlocked by the demonstrators who faced off against the police in every major American city this weekend. The nation has followed the example of those in Minneapolis who…
How far will corporate America go to stop Bernie Sanders?
In words commonly, if erroneously, attributed to American novelist and prominent 1930s socialist Sinclair Lewis, we are told that ‘When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross’. Though no serious person would attempt to equate the current Trump administration with the goose-stepping fascism of Sinclair Lewis’s era, the aforementioned quote makes the salient point that cultural, historical and national specificities dictate what fascism looks, sounds and operates like in a particular country in any given period. On the scale of fascist tendencies, we live in a worrying time wherein authoritarian and ethno-nationalist…
Corporate Democrats Have Been in the Driver’s Seat for 30 Years. Not Anymore.
Source: In These Times by Branko Marcetic For the past three decades, the Democratic Party has been living with a debilitating trauma that’s left it a shell of what it once was. But if Tuesday night’s debate is any indication, the Democrats may finally be moving into the home stretch of a long, painful recovery. Rather than sticking to the longtime script of Democrats pandering to the center, the two highest polling candidates on the stage—Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—articulated a clear-eyed left-wing vision of the direction the party should take. Sanders railed against the “ruling class” while advocating enshrining…
How capitalism is a hotbed of socialism for the rich and for everyone else it’s sink or swim
The making of Juan Guaidó: how the US regime change laboratory created Venezuela’s coup leader
Trump’s coronation of Venezuelan ‘president’ is political gangsterism that would make Al Capone blush
What would Martin Luther King say about President Trump bombing seven countries?
‘A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.’
Obama killed hope, says Chelsea Manning, showing why we need an unapologetic progressive leader
We need to stop hoping that our systems will right themselves. We need to actually take the reins of government and fix our institutions.