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Decline of the USA, Rise of the Struggles? The USA, as the world’s leading capitalist nation, is economically, politically and morally bankrupt. Resistance is picking up steam at home: in 2018 and 2019 there were more strikes, and more large ones, than at any time in more than two decades. In 2020, there were only seven strikes with 1,000 or more participants, but the country witnessed the largest wave of protests in its history. [1] Rising unemployment and poor health care during the pandemic exacerbated the general level of immiseration. The people (15 to 26 million, according to polls) w...

Email Address Lest we forget. The fear, the weeks of waiting, the vivid force of the eyewitness testimony; the replaying of grisly footage and then the shock of the conviction: the whole drama of the Derek Chauvin trial—its obscenity and thin catharsis—would not have taken place at all were it not for last year’s riots. Police trials are rare. So is national uprising: looting, acts of vandalism, and the nightly carnival of torched police cars are what vaulted George Floyd’s death from single cruelty to American crisis, as the fires of Minneapolis swept through every major city. It fe...

Post Growth by Tim Jackson review – life after capitalism The ecological economist adds to his message that relentless economic expansion is killing the planet with a set of more philosophical reflections. But does ‘post growth’ offer as many answers as the Green New Deal? ‘ Steam gives way to sail is the oldest rule in the book.’ Jackson recalls a yacht trip on the River Thurne in Norfolk. Photograph: David Grimwade/Alamy ‘ Steam gives way to sail is the oldest rule in the book.’ Jackson recalls a yacht trip on the River Thurne in Norfolk. Photograph: Da...

China Daily, May 10, 2021. Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University. Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development that features the economic globalization and financialization of monopoly capitalism. The characteristi...

Through storytelling, podcast series offers an inside look at real-world investigations and the tactics that investigators used to solve them NEW YORK, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- K2 Integrity today announced the launch of a new investigative podcast series, Digging Deeper, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at the investigations industry. Guests will explore real-world cases and share what they uncovered along the way to crack the code for clients. In a recent episode, Jules Kroll, founder of the modern corporate investigations industry, discusses some of the most intriguing cases of h...