Category: Labor / Economics
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“Artificial Intelligence”: Myth and Reality!
AI is a computer program humans write to perform specific tasks. To be more precise, instead of saying “written by humans,” it would be more accurate to say “commissioned by capitalist employers.” Ultimately, AI is a software program that operates on computers. This program can help you understand human language and expression, gather extensive information…
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Looking Ahead: US Unions Must Look Beyond Themselves to Save Themselves
This article argues that there has not been a labor movement in the US since 1949, but only a trade union movement; the latter only focuses on the betterment of union members instead of workers in general. Yet unions are important for all Drawing off a forthcoming book based on years of on-the-ground experience combined…
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Labor Needs Debate, Not Dissolution
LEPAIO claims that efforts to dissolve the Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) caucus within the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is a mistake; that it’s better to honestly debate issues rather than dissolve the caucus and try to sweep issues under the rug.
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AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Lie to Members, Refuse to Mobilize Members Against Trump
Article exposes legal document by the Executive Director of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center, which details information never before shown members; almost all funding for its activities are through the US Government; also complains that AFL-CIO leadership is failing to mobilize union members against Trump’s rightward assault on the Constitution, civil rights, and established institutions.
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Trainer, between Heinberg and Hudson: The rentier connection and the biosphere polycrisis
Despite several decades of critiques, analyses, and urgent calls for reform, there has been little progress in solving the multiple environmental crises, or in deflecting their negative effects. With some notable exceptions, previous efforts have largely ignored or soft-pedaled the role of the global economic system in driving environmental collapse. Economist Michael Hudson’s Killing the…
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African Debt Cycle
Debt is an important source of finance for development. But if the debt situation turns burdensome and it may even threaten the very sovereignty of a nation. That’s what happening today with a majority of nations in Africa. I learned how rich Africa is in mineral wealth from my students who come to study in…
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What’s Trump’s Game? Trying to Save a Weakened US Empire
This argues that if we look at the US as being the homeland of the US Empire, then we can see what Trump is trying to do: recognizing that the US Empire is failing, Trump was to end “soft power” programs by the US Government around the world because they are not working, and to…
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After the Fire: Reconstructing Los Angeles Towards Abolition
Looks at the impact of the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles, and discusses rebuilding efforts.
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From Artificially Produced Scarcity Toward Communal Luxury
[I]t seems that nowadays humanity is producing much more than it can consume, while insufficiencies still plague our everyday lives. One example is that humanity is currently wasting around 40% of the food it produces , while hundreds of millions around the world continue to suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
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The “Mighty” Dollar and the Brics Countries
US President-elect Donald Trump, faced with the threat of “the end of the dictatorship of the dollar,” announced the imposition of tariffs on the countries belonging to the Brics. Threat as a policy has been imposed in the governmental lineage of the presidents of the United States when they wage wars or sanction whoever is…
