Review of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist

Imagine if we had one Congress member who would say, “I’m skipping the speech because I’m opposed to killing Iranians”

The uncompromising stance of European creditors is rapidly shattering Greek trust in the Eurozone. Is it time to start preparing for Grexit?

I believe Syriza is sincere, and I’m rooting for them, but they may have overestimated their own strength, while forgetting how the Mafia came to occupy its position

Dependency on advertising is inherent in the very model of a so-called “free press” owned by profit-hungry media conglomerates

The rest of the world is now consuming media at the same pace, and in the same forms, as those living in the United States

Negotiations over the Greek debt in Europe in recent weeks reveal noteworthy parallels with labor-management contract negotiations

Our need to sell our labor, the resulting reduction of human beings’ labor power to a commodity, and the endless competitive pressures on capitalists to boost profits underlie the present economic difficulties

Participants reflect that the self organized nature of the schools is directly connected to the horizontal and assembly based movements that came out of the popular rebellion of December 2001

After an explosive start to his State of the Nation Address last week, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma turned to nuclear, coal, fracking and offshore drilling projects – but what about the country’s free sunshine, wind and tides?