There’s No Money? Then How Can There be $10 Trillion for Financiers in Two Years?

Noting that there is always money to be thrown at the finance industry but little for social needs is by now about as startling as noting the Sun rose in the east this morning. But what is eye-opening is the truly gargantuan amounts of money...

Ku Klux Climate: Coal, Petro-Palingenesis, and the Historical Materialism of Fossil Fascism

We live in a dangerous time when a far-right more powerful than at any time since 1945 is doing all it can to accelerate the capitalist project to turn our planet into a giant Greenhouse Gas chamber. The last United States president, the...

Building a Post-Extractavist Future for Latin America

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a new initiative emerged in Latin America to address economic inequality, social injustice, and environmental destruction.

Reflections on Law and Justice

The old adage that Justice is blind is being challenged by many lawyers and sociologists  who maintain that Justice cannot be neutral, that the function

Factory Farms Destroy Ecosystems

Factory farms are the Grim Reapers of civilization, inhumanely penning up and slaughtering cows, pigs, and chickens by the tens of millions, as well as

How to Create a New World Order Amid a Climate Crisis

Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the middle of this century, we will be living under such

How Greensboro Massacre Survivor Marty Nathan Taught the Next Generation to Fight

On November 3, 1979, Marty Nathan, Mike Nathan, and other members and supporters of the Communist Workers’ Party were stationed along the route of a

White Tears Trump Justice: On the Persistence of the Racist Police State

*This essay, like my forthcoming CounterPunch+ review of Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective’s book White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil

Puerto Rican Unionists Protest Austerity, Look at US Responsibility

In Puerto Rico on February 18, thousands of publicly employed union workers, retired workers, and university students took part in a national strike and

American Hypocrisy About Premeditated War

After Russian President Vladimir Putin directed Russian military forces to attack Ukraine, US President Joe Biden condemned the Russian attack as an act

Russia at War

Despite the impressive TikTok feeds showing the Russian phalanx heading in formations across the Ukrainian frontier and the missile extravaganza across the country, the success of the Russian army as an instrument of foreign policy is little...

Roaming Charges: Insane in the Ukraine

Most wars aren't "rational" and become more irrational the longer they go on (See Afghanistan). And most attempts to "rationalize" them are freighted with the very biases that will serve to perpetuate them. It's one reason Barbara Tuchman's The...

Handel Makes War

Yesterday began for me before dawn when I awoke, went downstairs and watched footage of the night sky above Kyiv lit up with the bursts of artillery

Against Imperialism

“the working class are to be sacrificed that a small clique of rulers and armament makers may sate their lust for power and their greed for wealth.” -

The Power Pentagon

Patrick Cockburn says Putin into Donbas is like Saddam into Kuwait. I think it more like Hitler into the Rhineland in 1936, both as re-occupation or

Is Ukraine Really a Nazi State?

Russophobia Leads Us to Assume the Worst of Russians – and Assuming They’re Demonic Could be Dangerous

This projection of an image of a battle between demons and angels is a characteristic of most conflicts, but Russia almost invariably finds itself selected as chief demon. This gives a skewed vision of what is really happening on the ground.

If There's To Be A World: Voluntary Austerity, and the Uses of Resentment

What can give our work its meaning, apart from the obvious paycheck, is the meaning conferred in the imagination. A woman friend of mine who professes to

Bipartisan Consensus as Myth: The Manchurian Candidate in Australian Politics

A few dragons have been breathing fire of late, and these need to be slayed. One is the notion that Australia has had some miraculous sense of bipartisan

Welcome to the New ‘New World Order’

The Western nations and especially the United States awoke today to a new world today. After decades of hearing US politicians boastingly describe the US