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The Political Economy of Familial Power Reproduction in Peripheral Rentier Capitalism Why do some republics, without formally abandoning their constitutions, gradually develop…
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Absorbing the revelations in the book Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I posed a question to my American…
Some of the most peaceful moments of my life were spent standing on the deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier just…
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This article positively presents Classical Marxist Theory as one part of Classical Marxist Leninist ideology. I hope it will introduce the conceptual…
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The following has been edited for clarity and length. Norman Solomon: You’ve downplayed the importance of the individual in history. But the…
Abstract Across divergent political contexts—from Iran to Latin America—political discourse is increasingly marked by a structural failure to recognize society as a…
I recently had the chance to send a message to the President of Ireland, Her Excellency Catherine Connolly. President Connolly is a…
Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. Long before the name “New…
When one has witnessed not only a colour revolution in her own country (Macedonia, 2015–2016) but also sensed its arrival during Ukraine’s Euromaidan in…
Introduction: From Civil War to Regional Systemic Conflict Sudan’s ongoing war is often described as an internal power struggle between rival military…
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Well, the propaganda they sell us like soda water is that ‘ We are a free country and everyone has the opportunities…
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Thunderous applause echoed through the San Francisco Opera House on June 26th, 1945, as diplomats signed the United Nations Charter. It was…
A good rule of thumb: centrist and center-left acceptance of reactionary framing produces terrible policy, especially on taxes. Recent example include Senator…
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