This is an excerpt from Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, now available from Verso Books....
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Leading German media outlets rely primarily on official Israeli statements in their reporting on the Middle East. All Palestinian and...
The last few months are set to enter European history as the summer of humiliation. This August saw European leaders...
Ayla Emmink was resting in their cabin when the shooting started. As deputy search-and-rescue coordinator (SARCO) on the rescue ship...
Review of Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s by Charles Piller (Atria/One Signal, 2025). There...
The job of a central banker between 1990 and 2008, when globalization was at its peak, was generally an easy...
“A good organizer is a social arsonist,” Fred Ross Sr once said. “One who goes around setting people on fire.”...
President Donald Trump’s success in pushing his tariff agenda has drawn sharp criticism — not just for the abuse of...
New York City socialists learned something from Zohran Mamdani’s successful mayoral primary campaign: to contest citywide elections, we have to...
A new study shared exclusively with the Lever details how corporate media has routinely downplayed the effects of corporate greed on price increases, often...
If you’re a supporter of public education, it has been a tough summer. And if you, like me, have been...
In August 2012, Steve Bannon sat in a Santa Monica office watching World of Warcraft players coordinate raids against impossible...
