Skip to content
  • About this site
  • •
  • Poisoning the Planet: Pesticides and Capitalism 30 January 2022
  • •
  • The File on 5G 19 October 2022
  • The File on Flight MH17 – 6 March 2023
  • •
  • The File on Novichok March 2018 – August 2025
  • The Julian Assange Extradition Trial News Links 2 September – 27 October 2020
  • Venezuela Regime Change – 25 Jan – 23 March 2019
  • Send a Message to the New Dark Age

The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'


index funds

  • April 5, 2009

    William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 68, 4 April, 2009 Some thoughts about socialism

    Wall Street has not only an army of lawyers and accountants, but a horde of mathematicians with advanced degrees searching for the perfect equations to separate people from their money. Continue reading

    Anti-Empire Report By William Blum, Capitalism, Media
    CIA, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, democracy, derivatives, hedge funds, index funds, Killing Hope, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Obama, Rogue State, structured investment vehicles, subprime mortgages, United States, Wall Street, Washington Post, William Blum
  • October 2, 2008

    Anti-Empire Report, October 1, 2008 By William Blum

    What changes take place in the real world to cause the crisis? Nothing, necessarily. The crisis is usually caused by changes in the make-believe world of financial capitalism. Continue reading

    Anti-Empire Report By William Blum, Capitalism
    Ahmadinejad, AIG, Capitalism, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, debt, derivatives, hedge funds, index funds, Iran, Iraq, Israel, market, McCain, Obama, regulation, structured investment vehicles, subprime mortgages, Washington Post, William Blum

BOYCOTT TWITTER & FACEBOOK

The richest 1% owns more than TWICE as much wealth as 6.9 billion people and the super-rich one percent of the world’s population has accumulated twice as much wealth as the remaining 90 percent, global charity Oxfam said in a newly-released report. The world’s richest 1% emit double the carbon of the poorest 50%, the 2020 Oxfam study found.

Pat Robinson

Pat Robinson

A Revolutionary Black Molecule

LATEST STORIES

  • Unite against racism and sectarianismOctober 15, 2026
  • What China’s Global Initiatives Offer the World: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2026)October 15, 2026
  • Universities fire dozens amid pressure from Zionist billionairesOctober 14, 2026
  • No More Deaths in Police CustodyOctober 8, 2026
  • The government is panickingOctober 2, 2026
  • Capitalism won’t fall on its ownSeptember 27, 2026
  • The night NATO sent 1,900 drones at RussiaSeptember 22, 2026
  • Trump readies 40,000 bombs for Israel, wider war after Nov. 3September 21, 2026
  • How the IDF executed an elderly Palestinian woman who posed no threatSeptember 19, 2026
  • Modernisation Does Not Mean Capitalism: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2026)September 17, 2026
October 2026
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Sep    

Join 857 other subscribers

Get new posts by Email

 Latest from Investigating Imperialism

  • Your Party, Party like there’s no tomorrow
  • The past returns to haunt us…
  • Lies! More lies! Nothing but damn lies!
  • Holocaust again or is that antisemitic?
  • Everything we know is a lie
  • One species, two realities
  • Living In the Age of Ironies By William Bowles
  • Nostalgia?
  • The dreaded lurgi strikes By William Bowles
  • The Great Scampede or The Iron Heel Revisited

 Latest from Black Agenda Report

  • Congo's Elite Struggle for Power While Imperialist Control and Violence Decimates the Country
  • The Canadian and U.S. Partnership in Settler Colonialism, Enslavement, and Imperialism
  • Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026
  • Lula vs. Bolsonaro in Brazil's Presidential Election
  • French Youth Rise Up Against Racism, Austerity, and the Rising Right Wing
  • The Time for Polite Protest Is Over | Ajamu Baraka & Dimitri Lascaris
  • Black Agenda Report October 2, 2026
  • Chris Smalls' "When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class"
  • South Africa's "March and March" Collaborates with Right Wing Afrikaners
  • INTERVIEW: The US is Firmly Committed to Global Hegemony

Latest from Dandelion Salad

  • Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle
  • Julian Assange is FREE!!!
  • The Brief Origins of May Day, by Eric Chase

Latest from Desultory Heroics

  • Two for Tuesday
  • Saturday Matinee: Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone
  • Two for Tuesday
  • Saturday Matinee: Sherlock Jr.
  • Two for Tuesday
  • Saturday Matinee: Persona
  • Two for Tuesday
  • Saturday Matinee: Sane Man
  • Two for Tuesday
  • Saturday Matinee: Stick Around

Latest from Electronic Intifada

RSS Error: A feed could not be found at `https://electronicintifada.net/`; the status code is `403` and content-type is `text/html; charset=UTF-8`

 Latest from Internationalist 360°

  • Yemen’s Resistance Thwarts Greater Israel Plot for Red Sea Dominance
  • Why Saudi Arabia Cannot Defend Against Yemeni Missiles
  • The State of Exception: The Destruction of the Eelam Tamil Liberation Struggle and the Failure of International Accountability
  • The Congo as a Site of Capital Accumulation: Erik Prince and the Privatization of War
  • Faster Than Judgment: NATO’s AI War Machine and the Nuclear Clock
  • Fatma Brahim & Laith Marouf: The Historic Alliance Between Sahrawi & Palestinian Struggles
  • Whistleblower Exposes Meta, Bolsonaro, and Cerimedo Election Meddling Partnership
  • Jill Lepore: The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
  • Laith Marouf: Regional Updates – Who Controls West Asia?
  • The Bunker Needs a State: End Times Fascism and the Class Machinery Behind the Gate

Recent Posts

  • Unite against racism and sectarianism
  • What China’s Global Initiatives Offer the World: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2026)
  • Universities fire dozens amid pressure from Zionist billionaires

Follow Me

Tumblr

WordPress

Instagram

Newsletter

Blog at WordPress.com.

Loading Comments...
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    The New Dark Age
    Join 857 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • The New Dark Age
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar