Noam Chomsky on Why This is the Most Dangerous Point in Human History (tags)
We live in a world facing existential threats while extreme inequality is tearing our societies apart and democracy is in sharp decline. The U.S., meanwhile, is bent on maintaining global hegemony when international collaboration is urgently needed to address the planet’s numerous challenges.
The Systemic Causes of the Crisis (tags)
The crisis is 30 years old, not 4 years old. The causes of the crisis can be found in the real goods-producing economy, not in the financial markets. The wildly proliferating financial markets did not drag the industry into crisis but kept alive the industry through credit-financed demand.
Tarot Cards and the Left (tags)
How prognostications of doom encourage passivity over action
Imperialism Today: Tariq Ali, Giovanni Arrighi and Walden Bello (tags)
Imperialism Today Speakers: Tariq Ali Author of Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity London Giovanni Arrighi, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, UCLA