By Richard Wolff on Oct 21, 2020 12:00 pm
 
This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Richard Wolff
The looming election has brought forward intensifying debates over a capitalism in crisis, rising nationalism and state power, and the possibility of a renewed fascism. Polarized politics and ideologies alongside long-accumulated social problems and movements shape the objects and tones of debate. Can fascism happen here; is it underway? Or can current capitalism avoid a […]
Read more at How Fascism Has Converged With Capitalism to Redefine Government
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By Vijay Prashad and Carmen Navas Reyes on Oct 20, 2020 01:00 pm
 
This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Carmen Navas Reyes
On October 5, 2020, the England and Wales Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision from July that denied the Venezuelan government access to 31 metric tons of its gold stored in the Bank of London. No one denies that the gold belongs to the Venezuelan government. However, the bank refused to give the government of […]
Read more at Venezuela’s Ability to Fight COVID-19 Is Badly Hamstrung by the 31 Metric Tons of Gold Stolen From Its Treasury
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