Flying into New York Tuesday, I had the same feeling I had when I arrived in Beirut two years ago, at the height of the Israeli bombing of that city — that of entering a war zone.
The immigration agent, upon learning I taught political economy, commented, “Well, I guess you folks will now be revising […]

…Most of the various notions of what globalization is about focus on the growing mobility of capital across the globe in the ‘global capital market’ and upon the impact of this mobility on national economies. But the term ‘capital market’ is analytically incoherent, because it embraces radically different phenomena in the field of […]

By GLEN FORD
In their role as mercenaries in service of finance capital, three-fifths of Democrats joined one-third of Republicans in a (temporarily) failed heist of $700 billion of the people’s funds - a nest-egg the public needs to hold onto to weather the unfolding collapse of the Lords of Capital. In the aftermath of Monday’s […]

My insistence on laying the blame equally at the door of the two political parties and the singular class they represent is not to provoke yet another senseless debate about Coke vs Pepsi elections in the US. It’s to remind folks that the game is rigged, rigged, rigged. You don’t try to break […]

“I remember one woman walking by,” said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the US Marines who served three tours in Iraq. “She was carrying a huge bag, and she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and when the dust […]

Another way station on our plunge into darkness was passed last week with the publication of Bob Woodward’s new book, The War Within. Along with the usual backstairs gossip dished out by self-serving insiders eager to plant their spin on events, Woodward revealed — or, rather, confirmed — the existence of what he called the […]

According to this research, merely thinking about another person experiencing harm triggers the same reaction in our brain as when a mother sees distress in her baby’s face. Conversely, the act of helping another triggers the brain’s pleasure center and benefits our health by boosting our immune system, reducing our heart rate, and preparing us […]

Obama and McCain are both recipients of vast Wall Street generosity, and firm believers in the economic orthodoxy that overthrew the Glass-Steagall Act — leading directly to today.
Welcome to the Titanic, an unsinkable pleasure ship.
Bank of America is buying Merrill Lynch for $45 billion, AIG needs an emergency $40 billion bail-out from Uncle Sam to […]

Who and Whose are you?
BY Stan Goff
Confession of faith and renunciation of evil
On February 1, 1996, I retired from the United States Army. I had served in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam as an infantryman, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 4th Infantry Division, 2nd Ranger Battalion, the Jungle Operations Training Center, 1st Special Forces […]

Please send along any links on the subject of the Peasant’s War.
It was a remarkable time, a remarkable event, and there is much there to help us understand the dynamics of our own dangerous age.
I’m basically opening a file drawer, so anyone who might want to come back to this topic (full disclosure, includes me) […]