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Byline: Tom Mayer A few years ago a friend who was familiar with my numerous critiques of United States racism, imperialism, and militarism asked whether I hated the U.S.A. On [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Michael Löwy, a distinguished French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher, recently issued a manifesto in the September issue of the Capitalism Nature Socialism journal that consists of 13 theses [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Professor Stephen F. Cohen, distinguished historian of the Soviet Union and Russia, and courageous critic of United States foreign policy died on Sept. 18. Professor Cohen was [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer The American Federation of Scientists estimates that the United States has 6,800 nuclear weapons, about 1,800 of which are deployed and ready to launch. Yet military strategists [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Infectious disease epidemics have occurred throughout human history. Wikipedia lists 235 epidemics between 429 B.C. and 2020, and this list is by no means complete. Rated by [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Climate change is probably the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced. In the immediate future we can expect severe storms, intense heat waves, diminished rainfall, severe [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer In 1960 the United States imprisoned people at about the same rate as other developed capitalist countries. Today the United States imprisons people at a far higher [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer If humanity is to survive for several more centuries, war must be abolished. War conducted with modern weaponry will, sooner or later, devastate our planet. But wars [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer My friend Erik Olin Wright died of cancer in January of this year at the very height of his intellectual influence. Erik was a professor of Sociology [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Capitalism is an economic system characterized by (i) ownership of the means of production by a small number of people called capitalists, (ii) production of goods to [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer What is racism and what is antiracism? Within the past three years Professor Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer 1. The United States is an aggressive empire and is currently the main threat to world peace. 2. Profit considerations have propelled the growth of finance and [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Imperialism is a system by which one society exercises enduring domination over other societies. Imperialism is much older than capitalism, but capitalist forms of imperialism are quite [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer How can democratic socialism improve the lives of working people over what they experience under capitalism? Major improvements will result from eliminating unemployment, economic insecurity and wealth [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Some of the most eloquent and memorable opposition to war is expressed in poetry. World War I and the Vietnam War both produced compelling anti-war poetry, some [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer War entails a prodigal destruction of human life and welfare. The death toll for 20th century wars was well over 100 million. Moreover, our world is currently [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer If political elites want war, they can usually find a way of mobilizing public opinion to support military aggression. This typically happens by first demonizing a designated [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Most Americans do not believe that our country has an empire. This idea contradicts the comforting anodyne that the USA acts in the world mainly to create [...]

Byline: Tom Mayer Yemen is a country of 29 million people located at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula and bordered on the north by Saudi Arabia. It is [...]