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Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff’s weekly show, “Economic Update,” is syndicated by more than 100 radio stations and goes to 55 million TV receivers via Free Speech TV. His three recent books with Democracy at Work are The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us From Pandemics or Itself, Understanding Socialism, and Understanding Marxism, the latter of which is now available in a newly released 2021 hardcover edition with a new introduction by the author.

    October 20, 2026
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    India: LoC Infiltration Attempts Persist

    Indian security forces have foiled at least ten infiltration attempts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in 2026, killing nine terrorists in five incidents, according to partial SATP data.

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    Baloch Insurgency Intensifies as BRG Escalates Attacks

    The Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) have sharply escalated their operations in 2026, with at least 23 security personnel killed in six BRG-linked incidents, according to partial SATP data. From deadly ambushes to attacks on railways, power infrastructure and government installations,

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    The Indian Ocean’s Security Partnerships: When Cooperation Becomes Dependence

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    For Sri Lanka, maritime security is not an abstract geopolitical concern. The island’s location near major shipping routes creates opportunities for trade, fisheries, and

    China’s Suspected Underwater Drone Motherships Signal Expanding Naval Ambitions

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    China appears to be developing a second unusually configured vessel that could serve as a mothership for large underwater drones, adding to evidence of

    G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles

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    Business

    Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles. Britain

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    Artificial Intelligence: Profit Versus Freedom

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    Artificial Intelligence/Business

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a profit opportunity for capitalists, but it presents a crucial choice for the working class. Because the working class is the majority, that crucial choice confronts society as

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    Why Capitalism Is Leaving the U.S., in Search of Profit

    July 21, 2023
    Business/Columns

    Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production to New York and the mid-Atlantic states.

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    It’s Hard for Americans to Engage in China-Bashing Without Tripping on Contradictions

    July 8, 2023
    Business/Education

    The contradictions of China-bashing in the United States begin with how often it is flat-out untrue. The Wall Street Journal reports that the “Chinese spy” balloon that President Joe Biden shot down with immense

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    The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, but Their Leaders Don’t

    June 7, 2023
    Business/Columns

    The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the G7 (the U.S. plus allies) and the total GDP of the BRICS group (China plus allies). Since then, the BRICS economies

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    Market Fundamentalism’ Is an Obstacle to Social Progress

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    Business/Columns

    A changing world order, a shrinking U.S. empire, migrations and related demographic shifts, and major economic crashes have all enhanced religious fundamentalisms around the world. Beyond religions, other ideological fundamentalisms likewise provide

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    The Debt Ceiling Debate Is a Massive Deception Against the Public

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    Business

    Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily deceived raises

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