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Zack Breslin
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The Coming Storm

Only in its third decade, the 21st Century has already been battered by several economic storms. The new millennium might have opened with the easy optimism of the early 2000s, yet even these years were punctuated by a series of financial crises as well as rapidly rising inequality. The disparity…

Crisis

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The Coming Storm
The Coming Storm
Crisis

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Donald Trump is not the Virus

The following article is included in my new book, Donald Trump: Deadbeat Tyrant, published 13th January, 2021. A French philosopher once noted of the Roman Empire’s fall: If the chance of one battle — that is, a particular cause — has brought a state to ruin, some general cause made…

Politics

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Donald Trump is not the Virus
Donald Trump is not the Virus
Politics

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Feb 23

The Tomato is Now a Portent of Doom

Nobody likes bad weather. However, if you happened to be a tomato plant you would find it particularly inconvenient. When temperatures drop too low you would be unable to produce fruit, which as far as I’m concerned is the whole point of your existence. …

Food

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The Tomato is Now a Portent of Doom
The Tomato is Now a Portent of Doom
Food

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Nov 29, 2022

Austerity Redux: Return of the Cuts

On 17th November, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced some long-expected bad news for the country. In order to fill a supposed £50 billion hole in the government’s finances, Hunt pledged a raft of tax rises and spending cuts. While the Chancellor promised that health and education…

Politics

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Austerity Redux: Return of the Cuts
Austerity Redux: Return of the Cuts
Politics

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Nov 18, 2022

Climate Change Will Destroy Capitalism

2022 is a year that will undoubtedly be remembered as one in which the price of almost everything rose quite rapidly. Across much of the world, the rate of inflation has reached forty year highs and shows no sign of abating. The main cause of the rapidly rising prices has…

Climate Change

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Climate Change Will Destroy Capitalism
Climate Change Will Destroy Capitalism
Climate Change

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Oct 21, 2022

The Bondholder’s Democracy

Like a posse of deranged clowns stubbornly clinging to some lead balloons in the Mariana trench, the Conservative Party remains ever committed to its unrelenting quest to hit rock bottom. …

Politics

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The Bondholder’s Democracy
The Bondholder’s Democracy
Politics

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Sep 6, 2022

Back to the Past

Liz Truss is Britain’s new Prime Minister and while there is an air of unpredictability about how she intends to govern, it appears probable that her government could very well be facing increased industrial conflict and perhaps even the outbreak of social unrest. Truss has signaled her intention to tear…

World

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Back to the Past
Back to the Past
World

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Aug 26, 2022

Liz Truss: Britain’s Next Thatcher?

The United Kingdom — via the malignant core at the heart of its body politic, the Conservative Party — is once more engaged in a contest to pick the latest in a long line of hapless and/or heartless leaders. The decision as to who will be the UK's next Prime…

World

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Liz Truss: Britain’s Next Thatcher?
Liz Truss: Britain’s Next Thatcher?
World

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Jul 6, 2022

The Class Warriors are on the March

Last month, workers from the British transport trade union, the RMT, went on strike over wages, conditions, job security and what RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch described as the “transport austerity” of job cuts and inadequate pay. …

Economics

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The Class Warriors are on the March
The Class Warriors are on the March
Economics

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May 10, 2022

Elon’s Twitter Bid is Bad News for Democracy

The world’s richest man has flashed his cash and decided that if he cannot buy universal adulation on Twitter, he will simply buy Twitter itself. And while it may take as much as six months before the $44 billion acquisition is completed, there has already been plenty of speculation about…

Twitter

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Elon’s Twitter Bid is Bad News for Democracy
Elon’s Twitter Bid is Bad News for Democracy
Twitter

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Zack Breslin

Zack Breslin

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Author of "The Coming Storm: Crisis & Class Conflict in the 2020s", available at: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Storm-Crisis-Class-Conflict/dp/B0BVPG173J

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