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Increased U.S. Military Spending Means More Militarism, Imperialism, and War

29 December 2021 - by Dan La Botz

The U.S. Congress is completely divided, Republicans versus Democrats. Except when it comes to the military. Bills for working people can’t be passed. But there’s always money for the generals and the arms-makers. Last week the U.S. Congress (...)
One year after: Joe Biden, president of the United States

24 December 2021 - by Eric Toussaint

Some commentators thought that Joe Biden as president would mean a Keynesian turn in the US. The same hopes and illusions had developed in the early days of Barack Obama’s presidency in 2009. In both cases, the election occurred when the US was (...)
“Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset”: Calls Mount to Cancel Debt & Halt Wealth Transfer to the Rich

16 December 2021 - by Amy Goodman, Astra Taylor , Nermeen Shaikh

As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor and feature her new film for The Intercept, “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset,” animated by artist Molly Crabapple. The $15 trillion (...)
Moderna’s free ride

29 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink

A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (...)
The US Lost in Afghanistan. But US Imperialism Isn’t Going Anywhere

7 September 2021 - by Gilbert Achcar

The United States suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as it did in Vietnam. But we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy after calamitous failures for a turn away from US imperialist ambitions. The debacle of the (...)
The Jackson Hole dilemma

30 August 2021 - by Michael Roberts

Next weekend, the central bankers of the world meet in a slimmed down COVID annual jamboree at Jackson Hole has more than doubled to $8tn. The European Central bank has total assets worth more than €8tn, the Bank of Japan has about $6tn, while (...)
The relative decline of US imperialism

22 August 2021 - by Michael Roberts

The swift collapse of Afghanistan puppet government when US troops withdrew from the war with the Taliban and left the country after 20 years has been likened to the fall of Saigon at the end of the 30-year ‘American’ war against the Vietnamese (...)
The US occupation took only human lives: Taliban victory is not a sign of peace

15 August 2021 - by Farooq Tariq

It is now evident that the US imperialism has lost all its human and financial investment in Afghanistan. The Taliban have almost occupied Afghanistan without a fight. What has been spent in Afghanistan in the name of development, ‘democracy’ (...)
Paradigm shifts

28 July 2021 - by Susan Watkins

Emerging from year zero of the pandemic, the us and eu have adopted recovery programmes widely acclaimed as historic turning points. The Next Generation eu programme (ngeu) offers €750 billion to help member states towards a greener, more (...)
USA: Imperialist Keynesianism

27 July 2021 - by Ashley Smith

In his address to Congress, Joe Biden celebrated his American Rescue Plan and promoted his American Jobs and American Families plans. The capitalist media declared it the end of Reaganomics and a return to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal (...)
American Democracy Will Remain a Mirage Without a Dramatic Overhaul of the Political and Economic System

28 June 2021 - by C.J. Polychroniou

It is no longer an unknown fact or a view propounded by a handful of radical historians and political scientists: the American political system has such severe structural flaws that it is potentially antithetical to democracy and surely (...)
On the Authoritarian Turn of Global Capital and its Contradictions in the USA

25 June 2021 - by Fouâd Oveisy

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, the contradictions of Marx’s critique of political economy seem to (...)
How Many Strikes Are There in the U.S.?

18 June 2021 - by Johnnie Kallas, Eli Friedman, Dana Trentalange

How many strikes are there in the United States? It’s a question with obvious importance to labor activists, yet there is no readily accessible answer. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases an annual work stoppage summary in February (...)
The Monetary Cost of Migration and Debt Incurred in the Journey from Mexico to the United States (2011-2019)

10 June 2021 - by Víctor Manuel Isidro Luna

This note addresses migration and debt in the north border between Mexico and the United States. Specifically, I discuss the flow of people returned to Mexico by the US authorities, the amount that some of these people pay to coyotes (...)
Covid 2021: more calamity ahead?

16 November 2020 - by Michael Roberts

The news that a COVID-19 vaccine could well be available by the start of 2021 sent the stock markets of the world shooting up to new record levels. However, the rally was quickly tempered by the rocketing rise in COVID-19 infections as the (...)
El pueblo estadounidense depone a Trump

10 de noviembre de 2020 - por Dan La Botz

En la elección más importante desde hace varias décadas en EE UU, el pueblo estadounidense votó el 3 de noviembre a favor de deponer de la presidencia al Republicano autoritario Donald Trump, pues la mayoría dio su voto al Demócrata Joseph Biden. (...)
The American People Turn Trump Out of Office

10 November 2020 - by Dan La Botz

In the most important American election in decades, the American people voted on November 3 to remove the authoritarian Republican Donald Trump from the presidency, a majority voting instead for Democrat Joseph Biden. While the electorate was (...)
The US economy – some facts

4 November 2020 - by Michael Roberts

As we await the result of the US presidential election, here are some facts about the US economy within a world context. Share of world GDP In 1980, it looked like this: The US had more than twice of the share of global GDP than Japan, and (...)
President Trump’s man elected to head the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

17 September 2020 - by Ariela Ruiz Caro

Failures in the region’s coordination have allowed President Trump’s candidate to easily win the election of the IDB presidency despite the violation of the institution’s rules. In an expeditious process, on September 12, Mauricio Claver-Carone (...)
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 24)

From Paul Wolfowitz (2005-2007) to David Malpass (2019-...): the US President’s men control the World Bank

14 September 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

In 2020, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF are 76 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few major allied powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the (...)
David Graeber discusses Strike the Debt and Detroit

3 September 2020 - by CADTM, David Graeber, Jonas Nunes de Carvalho

David Graeber passed away in Venice on September 2, 2020 at the age of 59. The CADTM gives homage to the memory and work of David Graeber, in particular his book, DEBT, THE FIRST 5000 YEARS published in 2013, and his action in support of the (...)
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 22)

The Meltzer Commission on the IFI at the US Congress in 2000

1 September 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

In 2020, the World Bank (WB) and the IMFare 76 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the (...)
United States of America: Socialism for Big Capital and wild capitalism for the poor

10 July 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

While the US has been set ablaze since the end of May 2020 by a multitude of major antiracist demonstrations [1] and the ordinary working people of the world’s top power remain hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic (as of 9 July 2020, in the United (...)
A boot is crushing the neck of American democracy

2 June 2020 - by Cornel West

Here we go again. Another black person killed by the US police. Another wave of multiracial resistance. Another cycle of race talk on the corporate media. Another display of diversity with neoliberal leaders, and another white backlash soon to (...)
The scarring

4 May 2020 - by Michael Roberts

Optimism reigns in global stock markets, particularly in the US. After falling around 30% when the lockdowns to contain COVID-19 virus pandemic were imposed, the US stock market has jumped back 30% in April. Why? Well, for two reasons. The (...)