“…the thought was, this is the cost of doing business, and that they would externalize the cost, not just on the people of China, but on the rest of the world…China is not alone in that. The U.S. has done that, Europe has done that…the Swine flu, H1N1 that emerged in 2009 outside Mexico City, our team calls that the NAFTA flu, (from) the U.S. meat dumped onto the Mexican market….In other words we did it ourselves, in 2009, this very thing that China has also been doing for several decades.” | more…
Interviewer Charisse Burden-Stelly begins, “….apocalypse represented, for African and indigenous folks, the end of life as they knew it—that is, a life free from enslavement, genocide, and ongoing violence wrought by the insatiable drive of the group that came to be known as “whites” for endless profit. This ending was simultaneously the beginning of a capitalist world economy rooted in racial hierarchy, imperial domination, and militarized social relations, of which neoliberalism is merely the most recent enunciation.” | more…
“…the United States government understands that China’s scientific and electronic developments, particularly in robotics, in telecommunications, in “green technology,” and so on, has far surpassed that of U.S. and European companies, and this is an existential threat as far as the United States is concerned.” | more…
Asks Zillah Eisenstein: “Why is it that when people are talking about democracy…(there’s a) lack of recognition of the way that misogyny smothers the globe?” Clearly, democracy can take very misogynistic dimensions… | more…
“Foster and Clark show that the exploitation of wage labor in the capitalist production process is essentially tied to the expropriation of the natural world, the refusal to socially acknowledge care labor as socially necessary labor, the privatization of our common cultural heritage, the treatment of non-white communities as places where the social pathologies of capitalism (unemployment, poverty, and so on) can be concentrated, and so on. From this perspective workers, environmentalists, feminists, community activists, and anti-racists have good reason to make common cause.” | more…
In a recent review of Rob Wallace’ latest work, we are reminded that “If the virus has a source it is not Yunnan but the boardrooms of giant corporations.” The review takes the time to name the culprits.. | more…
On the first Friday in March, SftP member Joseph Graves Jr. interviewed Rob Wallace about his work Dead Epidemiologists. Grave’s expertise in epidemiology and the disproportionate effects of infectious diseases on racial minorities steered the conversation as Wallace offered his take on the relationship between industrial agriculture, capitalist modes of production and the Covid-19 crisis. | more…
From Modi’s India to Erdogan’s Turkey neofascist autocratic regimes have taken hold…The result: widespread immiseration and discontent. In its wake, demagogues exploit the situation. They are coming to power by scapegoating, instigating violence against minorities, coupled with loud calls for ‘getting our country back,’ and lots of flag waving… | more…
Just after January 6th, Gerald Horne was one of the first to remind us that “mobocracy,” generally driven by settler colonialist impulses and schemes, has been a potent force throughout this country’s history… | more…