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The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
Protecting the Earth’s oceans is problematic when profit is the leading concern. kees torn, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/lic...
Michael Laxer
Oct 19, 202418 min read
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Mapping the Solidarity Economy
The worker-owned collective ChiCommons helps Chicago residents find local mutual aid-based organizations. The community owned Wild Onion...
Michael Laxer
Oct 13, 20244 min read
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What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
The seven steps that could help build a social movement and ensure a sustainable future. kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0...
Michael Laxer
Oct 9, 202411 min read
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What We Can Learn from Gen Z Workers
Rather than blame young workers for bad attitudes, we need to understand why Gen Z prioritizes its well-being over company health—and...
Michael Laxer
Oct 6, 20245 min read
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Highlander Research and Education Center Brings Old-School Expertise to Present-Day Issues
Formed in the early 1930s, this Tennessee institution is still fighting for social and racial justice. Image via Highlander By Damon...
Michael Laxer
Oct 6, 20247 min read
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How Australia Helps the U.S. Destabilize Asia
Rally initiated by the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network to oppose the AUKUS security pact, 2021 -- Matt Hrkac from Geelong /...
Michael Laxer
Sep 27, 20244 min read
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A Circular Economy
Latino community members in Southern California use the tanda system for mutual financial support. By Damon Orion Between 1942 and 1964,...
Michael Laxer
Sep 23, 20245 min read
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We Need Public Education to Help Us Address the Challenges We Face, But It’s Under Threat
By the Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium Over the past few decades, humanity has embarked on an unprecedented...
Michael Laxer
Sep 20, 20245 min read
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Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples. Praying in the Beginning of Hudoq Kawit Ritual in Dayak Bahau...
Michael Laxer
Sep 17, 20246 min read
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The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?
By Richard D. Wolff The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping...
Michael Laxer
Sep 6, 20245 min read
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Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S
While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20248 min read
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Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth
Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...
Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20245 min read
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Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20248 min read
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Trump’s Battle for U.S. Sports
Donald Trump’s targeting of established sports leagues and promotion of alternatives have partly reshaped the American sports landscape....
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20248 min read
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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Composite By Richard D. Wolff Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language...
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20245 min read
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The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens US Rivers
Leaving river protections to states doesn’t make sense when rivers cross state lines. Boats on the Yazoo River, Mississippi - ...
Michael Laxer
Jun 11, 20249 min read
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Some Myths Regarding the Genesis of Enterprise
Not only were “modern” elements of enterprise present and even dominant already in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC, but the...
Michael Laxer
May 22, 20245 min read
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Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
The changing context for enterprise through the centuries reminds us that business activities are not universal but fluid and alter...
Michael Laxer
May 15, 20247 min read
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Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Capitalism has built systems of inequality in food, health, and wealth and convinced us that the cause is individual failure, not...
Michael Laxer
May 13, 20245 min read
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Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
Offshore banking and tax-avoidance centers are nothing new; they’ve been with us for millennia. Singapore skyline at night - Bijay...
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20246 min read
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