Economics

America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies

August 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Belt and Road, Cold War, Economics, Europe, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars

by Michael Hudson, published on Naked Capitalism, February 7, 2022 I feel like I’m in a time warp today. I keep finding good articles, timely in the sense that they talk about the forces that govern our current situation, but they aren’t technically ‘current’. So, take a chance and read on. [jb] The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s[…]

Beyond Capitalism

August 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Environment

By Hank Stone, August 31, 2022 A friend recently circulated this summary in email. It is a clear and focused summary of Smith’s article so, you can see the point and if you want to read the detailed article that inspired this piece it was published on Truthout a few years ago and is linked in the first paragraph. [jb][…]

Leaked Documents Show Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Grave Plans for Amazon Rainforest

September 1, 2019 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Global Economics

by Manuella Libardi, published on Open Democracy, August 21, 2019 Leaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro’s government intends to use the Brazilian president’s hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen, also reveal plans to implement predatory projects that could have a devastating environmental impact. The Bolsonaro government has as one[…]

There is a Structural Crisis of Capitalism

May 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Capitalism

by Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M., originally posted on Black Agenda Report, May 09 “Capitalism has become an “obsolete social system.” A Marxist thinker of profound originality and theoretical innovation, Samir Amin continues to intellectually equip us to comprehend, analyse and critique the “obsolete” nature of present-day capitalism, the unequal North-South divide between countries, the continued operation of imperialism, the[…]

Socialism or Amazonism

October 27, 2017 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots

Originally posted on Black Agenda Report. Two unfolding developments show the stark choices faces humanity. In China, president Xi Jinping laid out the Communist Party’s 30-year grand plan to become “a moderately prosperous country” by 2020 and “a modern prosperous society” by 2049. The roadmap was both detailed and realistic, based on the world’s most populous nation’s steady — but[…]