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Classlessness And Job Definition
This essay is a rejoinder to the essay Deconstructing Balanced Job Complexes by Mark Evans. The following is a brief (not a book) but a long (not a tweet) reply to Mark Evans regarding his critique of...
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Deconstructing Balanced Job Complexes
This essay is the start of a discussion on the concept of Balanced Job Complexes. Response from Michael Albert can be found here. Introduction: The Division of Labour, Job Complexes and Economic...
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Why Are More Tech Leaders Pivoting to Trump? Follow the Crypto.
The last few weeks have seen a spate of leading technology entrepreneurs, investors and other key figures publicly endorsing Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign to regain the presidency. Among them are elite...
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How to Tackle the Climate Crisis and Inequality
Our planet is warming up at a record rate. Scientists believe that the climate is warming up as a consequence of the increase in greenhouse gases. Studies have also shown that there is a link between...
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One in 11 People Went Hungry Last Year. Climate Change Is a Big Reason Why.
One in 11 people worldwide went hungry last year, while one in three struggled to afford a healthy diet. These numbers underscore the fact that governments not only have little shot at achieving a...
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How Sinclair Sneaks Right-Wing Spin Into Millions of Households
With the presidential contest in full swing, the Sinclair Broadcast Group appears to be ramping up its right-wing propaganda again. While millions of Americans are subjected to the TV network’s...
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Who Is a Terrorist? A Lesson in Semantics
“Terrorist” is among the scariest words in the English language, usually reserved for individual shooters or small bands of radical bomb-throwers. But today its definition depends on who uses the word...
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Methane Emissions “Fastest in Decades”
A new study shows methane (CH4) emissions behaving like a sprinter on speed, setting decadal records. This is bad news. It’s 80 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat. “Global emissions of...
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Israeli Soldiers Will Soon Find Ways to Tell About the Terror in Gaza
Israeli soldiers, like soldiers in other countries, bask in the self-serving effusive praise showered upon them by politicians, but privately they know BS when they hear it. Right from the start on...
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Does Sean O’Brien Support Transphobia?
When International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien announced he was going to speak at the Republican National Convention I was more ambivalent than many of those on the Left. Yes, Trump...
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It’s Time to Organize or Die
I saw a message from a veteran friend of mine recently: he had just received a picture of a dog eating a dead baby in Gaza. Revulsion, anger, sadness, rage: of course, at the Israelis for their...
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Dearest Donald—Bibi, Joe, and Kamala Too—But Mostly, Donald
Dearest Donald, you got shot. Sorry. Yesterday’s papers. Does anyone remember how many people of all shades and persuasions wished you a speedy return to health? Various factors propelled their words....
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A Story Within a Story: the Making and Unmaking of Ethiopia’s Imperial Messiah
Tom Gardner’s The Abiy Project transcends a mere examination of Abiy Ahmed’s influence over Ethiopia and his future ambitions, nor is it confined to critiquing his misguided “messianic mission”....
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Resisting the New Green Colonialism
In recent months, discussions about green hydrogen in Tunisia have dominated the media, particularly concerning the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on May 28, 2024, between TotalEnergies (a...
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Arundhati Roy: India Must Stop Arming Israel or ‘Forever Be Linked to Genocide’
Acclaimed Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy this week joined prominent jurists, diplomats, artists, and others in urging their government to stop selling weapons to Israel, which they called...
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J.D. Vance, MAGA Friendly Leftists and Fraudulent Populism
Last month, when Donald Trump picked Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, corporate media labeled Vance as an authentic economic populist. The Economist described Vance as...
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A History of Neoliberalism: From the Crisis of Growth to the Coming Fascism
We live in a neoliberal world. Neoliberalism is the set of policies instituted by Republicans and Democrats alike, mostly since 1980, to kickstart the economy by transferring more wealth to...
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Voting Won’t End US Support for Gaza Genocide. We Must Target Its Perpetrators.
Massacre after massacre is occurring in Palestine, with immense human suffering and destruction, all enabled by the U.S. government. Even with the International Court of Justice declaring Israel’s...
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Bloody July
Speaking to journalists on 26 July, the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could not stop herself from weeping. She had spent fifteen years developing her nation, she said, and now the fruits of...
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To Each According to Their Need/Work
“All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. . . [they] were of one heart and soul and...
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