Commentary

Part Two – Boast About Jobs, Suppress Worker Power
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Part Two – Boast About Jobs, Suppress Worker Power

ByPaul Jay

Trump sells his tariff agenda as a jobs boom for American workers — but it’s a smokescreen for a global attack on labor. At home, new factories are routed to anti-union states, while Trump’s appointees quietly dismantle the NLRB to block worker organizing. Abroad, tariffs target export economies like China, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, fueling layoffs and driving down wages to benefit U.S. corporate margins. It’s a calculated campaign to suppress labor power worldwide. But the chaos it’s unleashed — from domestic legal battles to global economic disruption — suggests the plan may be backfiring. Even some of Trump’s allies are starting to question whether the madness is strategic… or just madness.

Trump Tariffs: The Madman Theory Applied to Economics (and what we should do about it)
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Trump Tariffs: The Madman Theory Applied to Economics (and what we should do about it)

ByPaul Jay

In part one, Paul Jay exposes how Trump’s tariff policy, far from protecting American workers, is a calculated strategy to fund militarization, crush labor, and entrench corporate-nationalist rule. Behind the chaos lies a coherent project—driven by Trump’s allies—to weaponize climate denial, exploit regressive taxes, and funnel billions into AI-driven warfare and fossil fuel expansion. The so-called “Golden Dome” is revealed as a trillion-dollar boondoggle enriching tech oligarchs under the guise of missile defense. This is not economic protectionism—it’s the financial architecture of authoritarianism.

Mini Doc: Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam – Martin Luther King

Mini Doc: Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam – Martin Luther King

ByMartin Luther King

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we republish his speech, Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam. King’s speech broadened the scope of the Civil Rights Movement to include economic and global justice, linking the fight against racism to opposition to war and militarism.

King criticized the U.S. government for prioritizing military spending over addressing domestic poverty and inequality. He famously argued, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

Paul Jay – Reflections on Daniel Ellsberg and Nuclear War
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Paul Jay – Reflections on Daniel Ellsberg and Nuclear War

ByPaul Jay

How did a Cold War nuclear planner become one of its biggest critics? Paul Jay traces Daniel Ellsberg’s journey from nuclear war planner to discovering the lies behind the “missile gap” with the Soviets. Jay exposes how defense industry executives and government officials manufactured the Cold War to keep military spending flowing after World War II. While the Soviet Union posed an ideological challenge, its military threat was deliberately exaggerated. The real goal? Using massive defense spending to stimulate the American economy while suppressing domestic opposition. The nuclear systems Ellsberg warned about remain active today. Jay’s upcoming film exposes how Cold War thinking continues to endanger us all – and what we can do about it.

Paul Jay – Elon Musk’s Trump Card: Unmasking the Billionaire’s Political Play
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Paul Jay – Elon Musk’s Trump Card: Unmasking the Billionaire’s Political Play

ByPaul Jay

Tune in as we peel back the layers of Elon Musk’s surprising support for Donald Trump. Is the tech titan really championing meritocracy and free speech, or is there a hidden agenda? From self-driving cars to space rockets, we’ll explore how Musk’s business empire might benefit from a Trump presidency. 

We’ll dive into the contradictions between Musk’s green tech image and Trump’s climate denial, and examine how the world’s richest man views unions, regulations, and the future of AI. Plus, we’ll uncover the personal drama fueling Musk’s political shift.

Get ready for a wild ride through the mind of a maverick billionaire and the potential consequences for us all. Is Musk’s vision of “Making America Greater” a technological utopia or a dystopian nightmare? Listen now and decide for yourself!

Exporting Extinction: The Global Political Economy of Biodiversity Loss
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Exporting Extinction: The Global Political Economy of Biodiversity Loss

ByLynn Fries

Why governments further policy agendas that entrench and expand extractive industries that drive biodiversity loss is revealed in Exporting Extinction, a report exposing structural drivers incentivizing this extractive agenda and constraining what states can do to address economic development and ecological crises.

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