It is easy to see today that in the course of implementing neo-liberal strategies, the state is being increasingly restricted in its function as the guarantor of social peace and compromise between the classes, while the various modes of operation …
… If the slogan of that antiwar movement, “No Blood for Oil,” seemed too great a simplification, it was not for all of that mistaken. There can be no doubt that something like racial extractivism, the intensified appropriation of cheap …
In recent weeks, the tensions between the United States and Iran have threatened the West Asia with a new war. The representations and coverage of “the evidence” about the threat of the Islamic Republic of Iran have reminded many American …
Was in Venezuela politisch versucht wird, hätte woanders einen Nato-Verteidigungsfall zur Folge Man stelle sich vor, die russische Regierung würde Marie Le Pen als neue Präsidentin Frankreichs anerkennen. Sie war als Präsidentschaftskandidatin Macron klar unterlegen. Doch Putin verweist im vorgestellten …
Die Tatsache, dass Kämpfe um die Reproduktionsbedingungen bzw. Zirkulationskämpfe im Moment weltweit wieder zunehmen, ist kein Zufall. Insbesondere in Frankreich nehmen sie mit den Gelben Westen an Intensität von Woche zu Woche zu. Die Verschiebungen sind dort leicht nachzuvollziehen, die …
Capitalism and neoliberalism carry wars within them like clouds carry storms. —Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato, To Our Enemies Henry Miller the ex-patriot who would return to his native land just before the rise of Hitler had a glimpse into …
The main thesis of this book is that contemporary globalization is bringing about a type of imperialism that differs fundamentally from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The most significant difference is that the great capitalist firms, by becoming …
The following chart gives a snapshot of the top 20 countries, ranked by their index of power in the world economy. Readers of this blog or my book, The City, will have seen this concept before,[1] but here the information …