Arundhati Roy: ‘No propaganda on Earth can hide the wound that is Palestine’
The full text of her PEN Pinter Prize acceptance speech.
View ArticleWhy Nations succeed or fail: a Nobel cause
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
View ArticleAES interrupts a $50b shakedown in the Sahel
The Alliance of Sahel States has already begun to change the conditions of the people in the region for the better. Bold actions, including the expulsion of exploitative mining contracts, put these...
View ArticleThe post-election challenge in France
An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.
View ArticleUN must designate northern Gaza as disaster area, take appropriate action,...
The international community’s silence and inaction render it complicit in this brutal genocide.
View ArticleThe dark side of crowdfunding
Tech companies are leveraging the misery of Palestinian war victims for their own profit.
View ArticleCuba faces nation-wide blackout, activists renew calls for an end to the...
The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market.
View ArticleU.S. to be ready for war on China by 2027: Navy Chief
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, a large-scale military exercise named Kamandang commenced in the Philippines. The exercise, scheduled to run until Oct. 25, involves over 2,300 military personnel from the United...
View ArticleWho will they add next to Canada’s ‘terror’ list?
Banning Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network highlights the anti-Palestinian character of Canada’s terrorist list.
View Article‘The Commune is nothing new here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune (Part I)
A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.
View ArticleThe struggle for University divestment in the age of finance capital
The boundaries that separate higher education from “the rest” of the capitalist economy have eroded, imperfectly and unevenly but to a sufficient extent that the systemic force of financial markets...
View ArticleInside Argentina’s university occupations
Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.
View ArticleCalifornia law mandates that public school children be taught about State’s...
From the time the Europeans arrived on American shores, the U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Indigenous people and at the conclusion of the “Indian wars” in the late 19th...
View ArticleAnother Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional Economics
New institutional economics has received another so-called Nobel prize, ostensibly for again claiming that good institutions and democratic governance ensure growth, development, equity & democracy.
View ArticleIsrael commits largest massacre yet in northern Gaza
The siege of north Gaza and Jabalia refugee camp enters its third week as Israel has cut off aid to some 200,000 people. On Saturday, Israeli forces bombed Beit Lahia, killing at least 80 Palestinians,...
View ArticleVenezuela: Opposing the blockade is our main task
The United States is waging an economic war against Venezuela.
View ArticleU.S. is spending $28 billion on Sinophobic propaganda to colonise your brain
Whoever owns the narrative owns the world–and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as U.S. influence campaigns–or “perception management”.
View ArticleHow do you resist neo-fascism?
Conceptual clarity and shrewd maneuvers are necessary to combat neo-fascism, a powerful social movement from above.
View ArticleThe West’s support for Israel’s genocide is destroying the world as we know it
The old world is dying once again, but the U.S.-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.
View Article34 million seniors in Medicare Advantage plans face rude awakening
October 15 marks the first day of open enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans–a time that will deliver chaos and confusion for many of the 34 million seniors who depend on these plans to pay their...
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