Archive | January, 2025

The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for imperialist and neo-liberal interests, like all of his white house predecessors.

Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.

We should talk about a malignant influence on Australia’s security which has long been harboured unquestioned–so-called independent think tanks.

Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.

Since 2022, the largest bird flu outbreak in history has raged across the United States.

Throughout her hour-long speech Sheinbaum addressed the central role of empowering women in her presidency, outlined her policies and achievements so far and directly spoke to relations with the United States.

A modern digital cold war & clash of civilizations.

Israel assumed that by destroying Gaza, it would eradicate the resistance. However, that calculation was deeply flawed. The resistance in Gaza is directly tied to the Palestinian people. It’s not about eliminating a specific number of fighters but about the enduring bond between the people and the resistance itself.

The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of […]

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awarded decorations to officials who are illegally sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union on January 10, after his swearing-in as the country’s constitutional president for the 2025-2031 term.

Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.

As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution.

A statement from Katherine Franke, a longtime Columbia Law professor who was terminated after defending student Gaza protests.

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.

Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.

What do Panama, Canada and Greenland have in common? Could Donald Trump be getting the US back to brass tacks, to a core strategy of dominating the Western Hemisphere?

Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.

With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.

Chris Bambery looks at the reasons for the new president’s threat to buy Greenland and finds there is military logic in the madness, and behind it the growing rivalry with China.

World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.