Category: Economy

Vijay Prashad: Brain Capture

Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.

Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future

Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.

Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply

A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. Richard Medhurst reports.