Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:
“Social Power is Built Before It is Seen”
Bonus links: The State and Revolution and “Slavoj Žižek On Political Struggle”
Tag: Economics
Tricontinental – The Architecture of Power
Link to an article by the Tricontinental:
“The Architecture of Power: The Dollar, Financialisation, and the Struggle for Sovereignty”
Bonus links: Super Imperialism and Trade, Development and Foreign Debt and “Food Blackmail, the Washington Consensus and Freedom” and The Global Minotaur Review and “Russia, China and the Battle Against Dollar Hegemony” and “BRICS Plans ‘Multi-Currency System’ to Challenge US Dollar Dominance” and Making Money Review
Scarlet – You Will Own Nothing
Link to an article by Scarlet:
“You Will Own Nothing: The Age of Rentier Capitalism”
Bonus link: Le Nouvel esprit du capitalisme
Prabhat Patnaik – Neo-Liberalism and The Intelligentsia
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
“Neo-Liberalism and The Intelligentsia”
Bonus link: “Patriot Front and What Once Was Chocolate City”
Gabe Levine-Drizin – Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)
Link to a review by Gabe Levine-Drizin of Jeff Schuhrke‘s book Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA:
“Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)”
Gary Wilson – Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery
Link to an article by Gary Wilson:
“Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery”
Bonus links: Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation and “$9 Trillion Collapse Machine” and “Rogue Nation Tries to Scuttle US – Iran Deal, AI Will End the West” (“Tech companies in the West are scrambling to exploit the momentum built for AI before it becomes widely apparent that Generative AI is a seriously flawed product that has been sold to people who do not understand how it works.”) and “No Path Forward, No Way Back—Imperial Decline Edition” and “Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits”
Vijay Prashad – Socialism Is Slow to Mature
Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:
Keep Android Open
Link to an article by F-Droid:
Bonus links: “With Developer Verification, Google’s Apple Envy Threatens to Dismantle Android’s Open Legacy” and When Google Met Wikileaks and Surveillance Valley and “Cookies, Identifiers and Other Data that Google Silently Stores on Android Handsets”
David North – Trump, the Epstein Files and the Putrefaction of the American Oligarchy
Link to an excerpt from the book Where is America Going? by David North:
“Trump, the Epstein Files and the Putrefaction of the American Oligarchy”
Bonus links: “The US is Following 20th Century Europe Down the Authoritarian Rabbit Hole” and “The ‘Epstein Class’ Exposed: How the Ruling Class Rules” and “Trump’s Speech on the Elections: A Ruling Class in Crisis Lurches Toward Dictatorship”
C.J. Atkins – Carney’s Davos Confession
Link to an article by C.J. Atkins:
“Carney’s Davos Confession: Globalization’s ‘Rules-based Order’ Was a Lie”