If prices are rising, it is by design. A blatant attempt is being made to transfer your money to a chosen few. As a consequence of poor economy, tax collection is poor and leaves a huge gap between income and expenses of the government. It has to resort to borrowing to fill the gap. Out…

JANUARY 11, 2024 Liu Hongjie (China), Skyline, 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Late last year, a colleague sent me a letter decrying some of my writings about China, notably the last newsletter of 2023. This newsletter is my response to him. ** The situation in China is the cause of a great deal of…

By Paul Burkett (Posted Jan 08, 2024) Ecology, Marxism, Marxist Ecology, SocialismGlobalLost & Found, RemembranceFeatured Paul Burkett (1956-2024) in Memoriam. —Eds. Originally published in Monthly Review, vol. 57: 05 (October 2005). In developed capitalist countries, debates over the economics of socialism have mostly concentrated on questions of information, incentives, and efficiency in resource allocation. This focus on “socialist calculation” reflects…

Yanis Varoufakis https://crimesbyisrael.com/

Fascinating thread on the DNA of the peoples of the Levant and the Middle East, coming to the important & fascinating (but hardly surprising) conclusions that the Palestinians and the Israelis are close cousins. It demolishes two widely believed myths-  that the Palestinians are outsiders who arrived with the Arab Conquests of the 6th century,…