Archive | December, 2024

Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West.

Mark Rutte said the alliance needs to adopt a ‘wartime mindset’ and suggested cutting spending on pensions and healthcare.

Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams’ defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.

Healthcare workers in the U.S. have long been fighting for a radical transformation of the current for-profit healthcare system in order to provide quality care to all.

Following the publication of Tariq Ali’s latest memoirs, he spoke to Michael Lavalette about the contrasting periods covered in his autobiographies and the prospects for the left today.

The evolution of the Pentalasia has been and continues to be central in defining the Middle East and the entire geopolitical Rimland. To whom the control of Pentalasia will go, will probably go the control of the entire Rimland.

Under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, the expected lifespan of a prime minister has gone from three years to three months. Michel Barnier, the latest PM to fall victim to the rolling political, social and constitutional crisis that is the Macron presidency, was appointed in September and kicked out in time to spend Christmas with his family. His predecessor, Gabriel Attal, lasted a comparatively Methuselean six months.

The Israeli military’s destruction of entire Palestinian cities and neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip is a clear manifestation of the genocide Israel has been committing in Gaza for the past 14 months, and a primary tool for its implementation.

The violence of for-profit health care’s megastructure can only be overcome through collective resistance campaigns.

Iran is now the key to the world.

The ERA will help restore abortion access, protect women from violence, and help build a gender-equitable future. Biden should certify it while he still has the power to do so.

For more than 500 years, Europeans have controlled the world, enforcing their rule through genocidal violence.

Do not buy the fossil-fuel industry’s hype about carbon-capture technology, even the schemes that work cannot be scaled up to the necessary levels, explains John Clarke.

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Four Palestinian journalists were killed in separate Israeli attacks within five days amid the ongoing assault in Gaza, with media freedom organizations accusing Israel of committing “war crimes” against journalists there.

A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about Chávez as a revolutionary man of faith.

(As if they ever were.)

This case has been widely highlighted as one of the consequences of the intense Islamophobia whipped up, largely in order to justify the U.S.’ ‘War on Terror’.

Behind the confusion and debates about fascism lies a simple truth: it’s a power game driven by economic elites. Communists recognized that fascism’s form is shaped by class dynamics—an insight we shouldn’t forget.

A fast track effort underway since 2022 aiming to forge a global Treaty to control plastic pollution by regulating all aspects of the life cycle failed at the fifth, and hoped for last, UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Meeting (INC-5) held in Busan, South Korea, on 25 November – 1 December 2024 under the aegis of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP).

Opposition lawmakers are alleging the full scope of President Yoon’s coup involved a months-long plot to trigger a “limited war” with North Korea.