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Andreas Malm’s recent book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency lays out the overlapping causes of both …

On Earth Day, remember that the environmental crisis facing our planet is ultimately caused by capitalism. …

Worldwide vaccine distribution is extremely unequal, with many poor countries having to wait years for theirs. …

Biden’s American Jobs Plan does not address the root causes of infrastructure decay or climate change. …

The Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama lost their unionization drive. This defeat must be viewed in the proper context in order to gain the understanding necessary for victory in the future. …

In 2020, the most profitable U.S. corporations once again paid no taxes, thanks to loopholes in the system. …

The government’s ineffective enforcement of workplace safety standards during the pandemic is due to the fundamental pressures of the capitalist system. …

The struggles against capitalism and racism are linked, and Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this. …

The murder rate increased in 2020, a symptom of a sickness in our society. …

The treatment of refugees is a problem of the capitalist system that destroys people’s lives. …

The gun law debate misses the point: the system creates the conditions that drive people to commit atrocities. …

Governor DeSantis deserves blame for the spring break fiasco, but so does the system of capitalism. …

Corporations and rich nations are hoarding life-saving vaccine technology instead of sharing it, because even during a pandemic they only care about profits. …

Our infrastructure has been crumbling for decades, because it isn’t a priority for the businesses and politicians. …

Workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL fulfillment center are trying to organized a union. Amazon is doing everything it can to prevent that. …

The fight for women’s rights continues to this day. …

The storm may be over, but the damage remains, and Texans are still struggling without government assistance. …

Rutgers University is using the pandemic as an opportunity to save money by making life difficult for its workers. …

To the drug companies, lost lives are nothing more than dollar amounts. …

Under capitalism, police will literally guard dumpsters full of thrown-out food rather than let people help themselves. …

The GameStop situation shows that we can’t win by playing the capitalists’ game. …

Capitalism is in a state of emergency, bringing all of humanity to the precipice. There is still a window of opportunity for the revolutionary power of the proletariat to intervene and carve out a path towards socialism. But that window is closing, and time is not on our side. …

The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …

Martin Luther King Jr., known for his activism against racial segregation, was also a critic of capitalism. …

Google fired an AI researcher for refusing to censor her own research, which was critical of the type of AI work Google does. What is Google afraid of? …

Globally, as of this writing in mid-December 2020, there have been more than 72 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (number constantly rising), with over 1.6 million deaths. The U.S. accounts for about 19 percent of these deaths, while comprising 4 percent of the world population. …

Shoplifting of basic necessities is on the rise, but the real theft is by those at the top who have enriched themselves during this pandemic. …

Trump’s tax evasion is reprehensible. But his behavior is the norm for billionaires, not an exception. The capitalist system is set up make this possible. …

As protests against racist police violence continue, many are discussing how the police can be reformed …

Last week floods breached two dams near Midland, Michigan, forcing 11,000 people to evacuate …

The arrogance of racist cops was on full display Memorial Day when they murdered George Floyd …

Super Cyclone Amphan devastated parts of Bangladesh and India last week. …

Memorial Day is supposedly a solemn occasion to remember Americans who died fighting in wars, a serious subject if ever there was one. So why is it typically celebrated with beach parties and consumer product sales …

Billionaire techies like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google have been using the COVID crisis to meet U.S. military and other federal officials …

California governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for the state of California on May 14. Who are the targets of his spending cuts? Workers, high-needs students, the elderly …

American-made weapons are still killing thousands of innocent people in Yemen, a country experiencing one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises …

Environmental activists around the world are calling for a “Green Recovery” after the coronavirus pandemic ends, to address the even larger crisis looming over us: climate change. …

While visiting a medical supply distributor in Pennsylvania last week, Trump announced he is planning for future pandemics. …

As of April 24, the State of Georgia began the process of reopening at the direction of Republican Governor Brian Kemp. …

In the U.S. there are 470,000 dwellings with inadequate plumbing. Nearly a million homes lack complete and functioning kitchens. More than 4 million …

In April and May, renters scraped money together to make rent payments, even though millions …

Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk went ahead and opened its Fremont, CA plant this Monday, in spite of the Public Health Department order for Alameda County …

Amidst a global pandemic, with the climate crisis still looming in the background, the Trump administration has dismantled a number of environmental protections. …

While there have been some efforts at collaboration, it has become apparent that the search for a viable vaccine is ultimately driven by wasteful competition among governments and profiteering corporations. …

Blame is the name of the game, and with the coronavirus spreading rapidly through meat processing facilities, politicians are playing hard at blaming workers. …

Covid-19 and the Global Food Chain with Raj Patel …

We are living through one of the greatest health crises in world history. So why are so many U.S. health care workers out of work? …