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Pope Francis and the Battle over Cultural Terrain
by Gary Olson, September 14, 2018, via CounterPunch “… [W]e should not be fooled: Much of the organized opposition...
India Mortgaged? Forced-Fed Illness and the Neoliberal Food Regime
Colin Todhunter Like many countries, India’s food system was essentially clean just a generation or two ago but is...
Haughty Imperialism: Genetically Modifying the Way to Food Security?
Colin Todhunter Those familiar with the debate around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may be forgiven for thinking that science alone...
New Study on Rising Suicide Rates in the US Suggests Capitalism Is Quite Literally Killing Americans
by Grit Post Editorial Board, June 11, 2018 A study released late last week showed that suicide rates have...
AUDIO: Academic Propaganda Protecting US Financial Imperialism
Australia’s Renegade Economists radio show interviews US economist Michael Hudson (June 7, 2018). Prof Michael Hudson joins to review...
VISA Payment Crash and the Dangers of a Cashless World
Yesterday, Visa's payment system crashed in Europe. Millions of people were unable to complete purchases. Some found themselves trapped...
Open Source Investigation: The War on Cash
Following last nights shutdown of Visa’s payment system across large parts of Europe, we thought this would be good...
Globalization the EU and the Road to Serfdom
It might be a good idea to start with some theoretical clarifications. Firstly, nationalism should not be confused with...
US ‘Empire of Debt’ will go to war to stop emergence of petro-yuan
RT Reports: The imminent introduction of oil trading in yuan is a very bold move by the Chinese, because...
Another Europe is Needed
by Ernesto Screpanti, January 5, 2018, Lexit-Network Since the end of World War II, tribal rivalries and xenophobic sentiment...
South-East Asia Getting Killed by Logging and Mining
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek, first published on New Eastern Outlook When an airplane is approaching Singapore Changi Airport,...
Shadow Economy, Democracy and the Manipulation of Public Opinion
by Denis Churilov Let’s talk about drugs, pop-music, public opinion manipulation and shadow economy. There’s a sociological concept known...
Capitalism Reduced Indonesian Cities to Infested Carcases
From Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Samarinda and Pontianak, text and photos: Andre Vltchek Several years ago, a prominent Indonesian businessman...
Protests Planned Nationwide as Vote on FCC's 'Catastrophic' Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Looms
by Jake Johnson, from CommonDreams.org With the FCC set to vote on chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to kill neutrality...
A Balanced View of the Economics of Independence in Catalonia
by Angel Ubide, PIIE, September 15, 2015 Editor’s Note: In the light of the recent independence referendum in Catalonia,...
Vladimir Putin’s 17 years in power: The scorecard
Alex Krainer The Naked Hedgie Today, October 7, 2017, Russia celebrates the 65th birthday of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. To...
Greece has become the EU’s third protectorate
by Jan Zielonka, August 14, 2015, OpenDemocracy The EU looks increasingly like an empire, having just created its third...
The Single-party French State
by Diana Johnstone, via Counterpunch French legislative elections follow hard on the heels of the Presidential election. The momentum...
Euro-visions
Lexit’s Digest No. 14 Juncker’s recent ‘State of the Union’ address was widely applauded by Europeanist media outlets. For...
The 6th mass extinction is a product of capitalism — not population growth
by Barnaby Philips via RCG Every particular mode of production has its own special laws of population, which are...
