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Michael Roberts – 250 years: US from independence to empire: Part 3: From hegemony to decline
Final part of a series on America’s 250th anniversary looks at the country’s relative decline, which began in the 1970s and has become more obvious in recent years. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 […]
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Michael Roberts – 250 YEARS: The United States – from independence to empire (part two)
The rise of ‘Pax Americana’. Read part 1 of this series, on the American revolution, here. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog It […]
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Norman Solomon – My Conversation With Karl Marx About Donald Trump
What Marx thought about the role of the individual in history. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War […]
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Michael Roberts – 250 years: The United States from independence to empire: Part 1: Revolution
The American revolution mobilised the popular classes against British rule, but only so that the elites could establish an independent capitalist state that would later rule the world. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the […]
EU politics
John Rees – 10 years on, Brexit’s legacy is universal disappointment
What neither side can admit is that neither Brexit UK nor the EU has achieved any success in the past decade. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a […]
Geopolitics
David Hearst – Trump’s U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel’s Middle East dream
The failure to subdue Iran has halted, or shattered, a much larger ambition: a project to change the shape of the Middle East, with a reborn and rejuvenated ‘greater Israel’ at its head David Hearst […]
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Michael Roberts – A Marxist Theory of Crisis in the Contemporary World
If you have a Marxist insight into the workings of finance capital, you are much less likely to assume that all will be well with financial investment. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City […]
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Media
Amy Goodman and ‘Democracy Now!’ vs. Mainstream Media: Interview
‘Democracy Now!’ was the original alternative media. A new documentary tells it’s story. In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.