Capitalism
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Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System
Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System (Monthly Review Press) builds on Karl Marx’s insight that while capitalism is dependent on the natural world, it is also waging war on the natural systems… Continue reading
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The Capitalist END of the West: Iran Destroys US Plans | Dr. Radhika Desai
The illegal attack on Iran—as many illegal wars before—is not a bug but a system feature. One, however, that is doomed to self-destruct its host. It is the inevitable outcome of the rent-seeking and society corrupting logic of the capitalist system the West is built around. The expansionary and often genocidal logic embedded in the… Continue reading
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The Imperialist Oil Shock
The US-Israeli imperialist assault on Iran, launched on February 28, 2026, has immediately exposed the parasitic relationship between monopoly capital and military aggression. Within days of the attack, Brent crude surged 15%, wiping out all the energy cost “victories” Trump had claimed since his January inauguration. Continue reading
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The Epstein class has an Israeli-backed plan to weaponize organized crime, & terrorize the people into submission
When it comes to the long-term designs of the Epstein class, an insightful resource is the Israeli-backed psyop book Bronze Age Mindset. Its author, the Greek right-wing polemicist who goes by “Bronze Age Pervert,” had been in contact with Israel’s influence network by the time he came out with the book in 2018. He’d been… Continue reading
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Book Review: You Don’t Miss What Doesn’t Exist
“Anthropause” is an amazing word and the latest book about it is an eye-opener. Stan Cox’s Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026, Seven Stories Press), does what far too few degrowth books do – it first focuses readers’ attention to the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff.… Continue reading
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Capitalism in a Glass Case: How Empire Is Rewritten as Curiosity
A Weaponized Propaganda Excavation of Fortune’s polite history of capitalism — exposing how imperial conquest, plantation slavery, and state violence are laundered into an academic travelogue for the professional–managerial class. Continue reading
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Lobito and the Long Arm of Empire: Europe’s Green Transition Runs on African Land, Labor, and Life
How the EU’s “model corridor” revives the colonial blueprint under the banner of sustainability— and how African workers, communities, and global movements are fighting back. Continue reading
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Fascism, Terror, War and Genocide: The Epochal Crisis of Global Capitalism
Sociologist William I. Robinson speaks at the CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee conference in Hartford, CT on Nov. 8, 2025. William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Affiliated Faculty, Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is… Continue reading
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China Widens Tech & Education Gap with Outlaw US Empire
Productive planning versus casino capitalism Continue reading
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Data Center resistance: a good ground game can help stop the corporate AI offensive
Major tech companies–OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok)–are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence (AI) models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial… Continue reading
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Expand or die: a system that can’t stop creating crises
Walk through Fort Worth, Texas, and you’ll see the story of a collapsing empire written in steel and concrete. Continue reading
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New analysis: climate impact of data centres
As part of Foxglove’s work to sound the alarm on the environmental impact of Big Tech’s dash to cover the UK in data centres, we’ve published some new analysis of data centres’ impact on the UK’s efforts to cut carbon emissions. Continue reading
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Larry Ellison’s Spider Web
Larry Ellison founded Oracle decades ago, and through that became a multi-billionaire. The latest estimate puts his net worth at US$344 billion, after he ramped Oracle stock with an utterly unbelievable deal with OpenAI to get Oracle stock that “AI” premium. Like so many of the new oligarchs that are as much stock pumpers and… Continue reading
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Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
Millions of people watch a video of Tel Aviv in smoking ruins after an Iranian attack. Footage from a US bombing of Tehran takes the place of breaking news from a strike that is yet to happen. Look closer, and you see strange image errors and artifacts. The grass beneath the F-35 is eerily green… Continue reading
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Who is responsible for heat that kills?
Discussions of climate change that focus on the 1.5°C or 2.0°C targets can be misleading. An increase of less than two degrees seems small compared to the normal temperature variations we experience from season to season or even from night to day. Continue reading
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Break Your Psychological Chains to an Evil called “The West”
Oligarchy’s propaganda machine has rewritten the history of a civilization that perfected industrial genocide as a story of progress and enlightenment. Continue reading
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“The World Race, Red-Baiting, and the Wilsonian Century” Anievas
This is a review of a chapter in the edited volume “A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War” that Alexander Anievas has made available online here. The introductory paragraph: Continue reading
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Books: AI Is a Total Grift
Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 