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Bourgeois economics treats capitalism as simply a market economy. Vivek Chibber traces how markets and private ownership worked under feudalism and under capitalism, and argues that socialism could use markets without restoring class society.

Earlier this year, Stand.earth Research Group calculated that a single Microsoft data center facility in West Virginia powered entirely with onsite methane gas generators was set to increase the company’s annual data center climate pollution by a whopping 44%. Now, sources are suggesting that Microsoft quietly abandoned the project, declining to comment on the news. […]

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt blamed Israel for America’s Middle Eastern fiascos. But from Iraq to Iran, Washington has had its own reasons for war in the Gulf.

The more scientists look for chemicals that can increase breast cancer risk, the more they find. Hundreds of potential breast carcinogens lurk in consumer goods, food, drinking water, pesticides, drugs and building materials, scientists reported in a peer-reviewed study published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.  Exposure to these chemicals is ubiquitous, the authors […]

In February 2023, George Garrow jumped in his car and hurried to help people impacted by a freight train that had derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.  The crash happened about a quarter-mile west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line and sent plumes of toxic smoke and hazardous chemicals into the air above the small town. A […]

On Mélenchon, 2027, and the Cost of Staying Open

Two divergent worldviews emerged from the first two national addresses on the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly’s 81st session in New York.  Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called for decarbonizing economies, protecting forests and supporting the energy transition through technology transfer. U.S. President Donald Trump followed with a rejection of […]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is opening an immigrant detention center, Big Horn Facility, on the plains of northeastern Colorado. It will be operated by the for-profit GEO Group. Photo: Jim West IN AUSTIN, TEXAS an ICE agent shoots a food delivery driver after he was rammed and pulled over by an unmarked van. Wilber… Continue reading A Reign of Anti-Immigrant Terror

Filing comes after Michigan Supreme Court decision overturned another Line 5 permit approval September 10, 2026 Lansing, MI. – Today, four environmental organizations jointly filed a petition with Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) requesting a contested case hearing on a Water Resource Permit the agency approved for Enbridge’s Line 5 Tunnel... Read more »

The post Flow and partners launch legal challenge to EGLE Line 5 tunnel permit appeared first on Flow Water Advocates.

A $20 billion data center campus announced in July near Rincon, Georgia, is now facing its second lawsuit from Effingham County residents and environmental advocates. OpenAI, best known for creating ChatGPT, is planning a massive campus that would include about 4.4 million square feet of data-center space 30 miles northwest of Savannah. The project, known […]

The Waorani people took to the streets of Puyo to mark the three-year anniversary of Ecuador's historic Yasuní referendum and protest the government’s failure to carry out the will of voters.

The post Three Years After Ecuador’s Historic Yasuní Vote, the Oil Still Flows first appeared on Amazon Watch.

The disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and promised release of its prisoners offers a path to pacifying conflict in Turkey. It’s less clear if the Turkish state is ready to compromise with Kurds’ democratic demands.

Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old.

Pennsylvania’s data center industry has promised economic growth and a revival of the state’s industrial strength. But a new report issued Tuesday finds little evidence of job growth and warns that adding more of the massive computer complexes could repeat a long history of industrial facilities exploiting the communities that house them. The research group […]

A year since the Green Party of England and Wales elected Zack Polanski as leader, its membership has nearly quadrupled. His rise speaks to dissatisfaction with Labour but also the difficulty of building a deep-rooted alternative.

For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to The Free Press, defending Israel takes priority over the facts.

As concerns over inflation have mounted, borrowing costs for the US state have risen sharply. The bond market volatility is capital cracking down on the state’s debt-fueled spending spree, and workers are set to pay for the belt-tightening.

Vivek Chibber recommends five books that explain how empires work, how capitalism divides the world, and how Marxists have argued about imperialism.

Almost nobody wants a data center for a neighbor. Residents fear noise and air pollution, excessive energy and water use and the loss of open land. In Pennsylvania, a hot spot for new data centers, researchers see an opportunity to solve some of these issues by taking advantage of a much older environmental hazard: abandoned […]