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The US rate of profit in 2021

20 December 2022 - by Michael Roberts

Every year, I analyse the US rate of profit on capital. This is because the US data is the best and most comprehensive to use and because the US is the most important capitalist economy, often setting the scene for trends in global capitalism. (...)
Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick

5 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa

In 1965, Ho Chi Minh described U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese – and simultaneous threat of endless bombing – as a “rotten carrot and broken stick.” The National Liberation Front’s aim was to achieve (...)
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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO): 19 years is enough

2 December 2022 - by CADTM, Collective, GRAIN, Friends of the Earth

This year’s general assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which begins on 1 December 2022 in Malaysia, marks the alliance’s 19th anniversary. For nearly two decades now, the RSPO has failed in its mission to make the (...)
Moderna’s free ride

29 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink

A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (...)
Moderna’s free ride

7 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink

A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (...)
Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict

19 August 2021 - by Patrick Bond

Abstract The climate crisis is amplified by socio-political and economic injustices everywhere but in 2021, perhaps nowhere as acutely as northern Mozambique. There, the Cabo Delgado province is a site for military intervention against Islamic (...)
AEPF Statement on Bangladesh Factory Fire

12 July 2021 - by Asia Europe Peoples’ Forum (AEPF)

A food and beverage factory in Bangladesh was engulfed in fire killing at least 52 workers and injuring more than fifty others. The workers were trapped inside the building since the only exit had been locked. This illegal practice to force (...)