Category: USA
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Healthcare Reform in a Post-Pandemic World
The industrialized world’s most unequal and inefficient healthcare system underwent a stress test this past pandemic year and failed miserably. Here are just a few of the indicators: the world’s … Keep reading »
Could California End Up With a Trump-Like Governor?
If Democratic voters fail to turn out for California’s upcoming recall election, the nation’s most populous, and arguably most liberal, state could end up with a right-wing extremist at its helm. Keep reading »
Thousands March to Demand Medicare for All
Activists in more than 50 cities across the United States marched and rallied on July 24 to demand a Medicare for All or single-payer healthcare system. With Congress and the … Keep reading »
How a US Congressman Took on the US Blockade Against Venezuela
On a cold winter day in February 2019, activists gathered in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to denounce the attempted US-backed coup in Venezuela. More than two years later, in the wake … Keep reading »
The Modern Tecumseh and the Future of the US Left
The following essay is not an academic research paper. Neither is it a biography. It draws from the life of Tecumseh and lessons that I believe are useful for the … Keep reading »
On the Authoritarian Turn of Global Capital and its Contradictions in the USA
There’s a tendency within certain factions of the US left to regard the case of former US president Donald Trump as an ‘anomaly’. In dealing with other personifications of capital, … Keep reading »
Why Big Pharma’s Arguments Against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up
While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits. Keep reading »
Solidarity with Kshama Sawant: Against the Seattle Elite’s Recall Campaign
A recall election allows citizens to vote out an elected official, after a process of garnering a certain percentage of names on a petition and clearing legal challenges. Recall elections … Keep reading »
Republican Theocracy or the End of Neoliberalism?
“QAnon Fears That Greene’s Obsession with Jewish Space Lasers Is Distracting Her from Battling Baby-Eating Cannibals”! In an emergency meeting of QAnon elders, the conspiracy theorists issued a communiqué warning … Keep reading »
Powerless in Texas
Capitalist competition and greed lie at the heart of the power outages causing desperation across Texas. Keep reading »
Trump May Be Gone, But Neofascism Remains
At last, the Donald Trump Presidency has crash landed and he is out of the White House. Now, we can all start dealing with ‘Trump trauma’ and shock. What did … Keep reading »
01/06/21: The Insurrection that Wasn’t
“Only the chief … can still save bourgeois society. Only theft can still save property; only perjury, religion; bastardy, the family; disorder, order!” Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis … Keep reading »