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Trump’s Tariffs Could Intensify Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis
Trump with his tariff chart -- public domain image By Shiran Illanperuma On Thursday, 3 April, Sri Lankans woke up to the alarming news...

The Left Chapter
Apr 7, 20254 min read


What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?
Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes. Lacking...

The Left Chapter
Apr 2, 20257 min read


How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability. By Damon Orion The arrival of...

The Left Chapter
Mar 29, 20255 min read


Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
By Vijay Prashad In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is...

The Left Chapter
Mar 26, 20255 min read


Germany and the EU Embrace Military Keynesianism
German armored personnel carrier in Bavaria, Germany, November, 2024 -- public domain image By Matthew Read Just days before its...
Michael Laxer
Mar 21, 20254 min read


Trump 2.0: US Revivalism Driven by Tech Oligarchy
Trump purchases a Tesla at the White House, March 11, 2025 - public domain image By Bappa Sinha Trump 2.0 has had a tumultuous start....
Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20254 min read


Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members in the Public Funding Process
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. Participatory budget...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20254 min read


Trump’s Address to Congress Highlights the Absence of Opposition
The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20256 min read


What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 202518 min read


Donald Trump’s Reverse Kissinger Strategy
Putin and Trump in 2019 - Kremlin.ru , CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad US President Donald Trump called Russian...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20256 min read


Why Wikis Are a Useful Tool to Protect Online Information From Being ‘Disappeared’
Wiki sites are at the forefront of a shift toward decentralized information sharing. Moheen Reeyad, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20255 min read


How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 202512 min read


A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy of Anti-immigration
Deportation Flight to unknown "country of origin" from the United States by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on January 23,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20257 min read


Sri Lanka’s New Government Struggles to Increase Public Investment Amid IMF Constraints
The maiden budget by Sri Lanka’s new government reflects the limitations of austerity and the need to reinstill confidence in ideas of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20256 min read


‘Only the People Can Save the People,’ Say Migrant Workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20255 min read


Making Erhai Lake Bloom Again: A Story of China’s Ecological Transformation
View of the Erhai Lake in September 2023 -- Nishino Asuka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Tings Chak On a clear morning in June...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20255 min read


Trump International Hotel and Tower, Gaza
Public domain image of Trump at the Super Bowl, February 9, 2025 By Vijay Prashad Donald Trump spoke to reporters for over three hours...
Michael Laxer
Feb 14, 20255 min read


We Have Entered the Era of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated
Marine heat waves are causing record-breaking ocean temperatures that kill animals and impact ocean-based industries. Henrik Dreisler, CC...
Michael Laxer
Jan 24, 20255 min read


Abolish Climate Disasters
We need to apply an abolitionist framework to climate change, pouring money into a safe and resilient climate and out of the oil-based...
Michael Laxer
Jan 23, 20256 min read


United States in 2025: Social Problems Denied via Rhetorics of Refusal
Public domain image from November, 2024 By Richard D. Wolff Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20257 min read
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