Archive | March, 2024

Just as unprecedented peak temperatures were being recorded in several cities around the world, organized communities in Latin America were mobilizing against extractivism, as well as in favour of environmental protection and the right to protest in its defence.

Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?

A growing divide in the world economy is further adding to global tensions. A rising number of countries, including Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria, Yemen, and Zimbabwe, face significant U.S. sanctions. Economic warfare has led to a growing number of countries forming blocs outside of Washington’s control.

Ted Snider asks: “Is America a Rogue Superpower?”

Rent control has been around for as long as the landlord. Since antiquity it has served as a tool for limiting land speculation, especially during economic shocks. In Rome, beginning in 40 B.C.E., in the wake of civil war, a debt crisis, and political turmoil, the government instituted a temporary rent cap and a cancellation of rent for one year.

Jared Kushner joins the chorus calling for Israel to expand its occupation to Gaza’s waterfront through forced displacement, but, if history is any judge, Palestinians will remain.

While most leftists have no problem rejecting Heidegger as a person, many ostensibly progressive or left-wing philosophers have nevertheless adopted Heideggerian positions.

It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now.

As the Coast Guard ends its search for six missing construction workers, the U.S. laments over preventable deaths.

At present Chinese stocks are depressed so several analysts see them as good value on fundamentals such as share price to earnings and return on equity ratios.

CounterSpin interview with Evlondo Cooper on climate coverage.

On January 6, 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft were grounded after a door plug blew from one of the planes’ fuselages over Oregon during an Alaska Airlines flight.

Health activists and scientists in Europe met to develop strategies to build regional public pharmaceutical infrastructure as pandemic lessons seems lost on governments and producers.

On February 15, 2024, a five-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India declared in a unanimous verdict that the electoral bond scheme of anonymous corporate donations to political parties was unconstitutional.

What director Jonathan Glazer said in barely one minute at the Oscars retains profound moral power that no distortions can hide.

Isaac Cordal is sympathetic toward his little people and you can empathize with their situations, their leisure time, their waiting for buses and even their more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family funerals. The sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters; in many unusual and unlikely places.

All across the corporate media today, there are stories attacking Cuba and its revolution.

Cornell University’s Labour Action Tracker reports have noted a 77 per cent growth in strikes since 2021.

New York State’s Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 permits the regulation of residential rents  (“rent stabilization”) on the declaration of a housing emergency in New York City when the vacancy rate falls below 5%, or by similar declarations in municipalities in the suburban New York City counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland.

Hundreds of trade unionists have blockaded major arms factories in England and Scotland today (March 21, 2024) demanding the UK Government halt arms supplies to Israel.