Rob Urie

Rob Urie is an artist and political economist. His book Zen Economics is published by CounterPunch Books.

Police Violence and the Idea of Race

The Climate Crisis is Capitalism

Barack Obama Does ‘the Environment’

Democrats Reap What They Sowed

QE, Debt and the Myth of a Liberal Left

Let the Democrats Rot

Ebola, Capitalism and the Idea of Society

The Climate Crisis and the Crisis in Western Economics

U.S. Wars and the Climate Crisis

Capitalism and Climate Change Redux

Energy Geopolitics and the U.S. ‘Mission’ in Iraq and Syria

The Imperial Rot of Armchair Warriors

Racial Repression and the Murder of Mike Brown

“Finishing the Job” in Iraq

Obama and the Revival of Wall Street

Israel’s War of Attrition in Gaza

Israel’s War of Attrition in Gaza

The U.S., Israel and Oil Geopolitics

Defending Fed Policy

Iraq and the Persistence of American Hegemony

Global Warming is Economic Imperialism

The Great Economic Misdirection

Off With Their Heads, Thomas Picketty Edition

Off With Their Heads, Thomas Piketty Edition

Monetary Policy as Class Warfare, Revisited

Obama, Geithner and the Missing Six Trillion Dollars

The Fed and Manufactured Crises

Economics, Finance and Crisis

Marx-lite Meets the Investor Class

Money and Income Inequality

The Problem of Wealth

Economic Stagnation and the Stagnation of Economics

Mass Incarceration and Capitalism

Capitalism and Income Inequality

The American Crisis

Technology and Economic Imperialism

The Ends of Capitalism

Burning Down the House

Capitalism and US Oil Geo-Politics

Syria and the US Imperial Project

Obama Goes Full Bush on Syria

Manning, Snowden and the U.S. Coup in Iran

Barack Obama and the Neo-Liberal Coup

Aiding the Enemy

Obama’s Plan for Economic Immiseration

The Murder of Trayvon Martin and Racist America

Democracy and Empire

The NSA and That 1970s Show

Treason

Things Fall Apart