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Book Review, Climate, Environment, Technology

Book Review: Charles Windsor, Harmony

The Prince of Wales [Charles Windsor], Harmony: A New Way of Looking at the World.With Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly. HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2010 This book is about climate ...

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Environment, International relations

Deep Sea Mining — Yet Another Threat to the Environment

When there is little benefit to states, particular treaties that promote the interests of humanity as a whole can usually be concluded. Such would be the Antarctica ...

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Book Review, healthcare, History, Sport, War

Football and War

In the United States the game called either football or soccer in the rest of the world is always called soccer. American football is very different. In ...

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Imprisonment, Terror, War

Israeli Teens Refuse To Join Army

Conscientious objector Einat Gerlitz, 19, explains why she refuses to participate in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

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Capitalism, Economics, Marxism

But What About the Wage-Price Spiral?

Foundation of the spiral argument In nearly every media interview in recent months, Mick Lynch, general secretary of the  National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ...

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International relations, War

Petya and the Authorities

Introductory note. This text, published in Russian here, on the website of the Russian section of the International Workers’ Association, was written by a teenage school student ...

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healthcare, Labor movement, Politics

Nursing Homes: Understaffing and Neglect

In both the United States and Canada, understaffing at nursing homes for the elderly leads to gross neglect of helpless patients. Why?

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News, Technology, Work

Humanity on a Cross of Iron

A surge is underway in military spending and arms sales, fueled by the war in Ukraine and the confrontation over Taiwan. Global demand for advanced weaponry is ...

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Socialism, Work

A Society of Universal Unemployment

In 1848 the Prussian government sent a young physician named Rudolf Carl Virchow to Upper Silesia (now in Poland) to investigate a typhus epidemic. His Report was ...

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Book Review, Economics, healthcare

What Are Hospitals For?

Source: Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (New York: Crown, 2020) This is a hospital. What are hospitals for? Perhaps you think that they ...

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