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The Mon Valley, an area ravaged by deindustrialization just outside of Pittsburgh, has attracted thousands of new immigrants in recent years, a fact President-elect Donald Trump exploited in his successful campaign for the White House.

The rich are growing astronomically richer while poverty reduction has ground to a standstill. In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly-paid workers?

Housing is increasingly treated as both a speculative or an investment commodity for the rich and satisfied, and a charitable donation for the poor and precarious, in a system of corporate capitalist rule obfuscated by the language of human rights.

While industrial capitalism got rid of the landlord class, capitalism still had economic rent, but instead of being paid to the landlord class, it is now paid to the banks in the form of interest.

War, Inflation, Geopolitical Rivalry, and Soaring World Temperatures

Political economy and new maps of power in 2022