‘The polio vaccine is effective, but delivering it requires a ceasefire’

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

August 27, 2024

For 25 years, the Gaza Strip was free of polio. No longer. Earlier this month, the health ministry reported that a 10-month-old baby had contracted the disease; a week later, he was paralyzed. This came after polio virus had been detected in sewage samples from six locations in the cities of Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis. 

Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism is a Myth

Richard D. Wolff

August 27, 2024

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where victims and critics developed analyses, demands, and proposals for change, beneficiaries, and celebrants developed alternative discourses defending the system.