Archive | August, 2025

Hamilton Nolan is one of an emerging group of journalists who have taken over the “labor beat” in U.S. journalism. 

Documentary recounts New Zealanders’ violent follies against Māori freedom fighters.

Public support for Kiev “fighting until victory” has plummeted to a record low “across all segments” of the population, “regardless of region or demographic group.” In a “nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022,” 69% of citizens “favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible.” Just 24% wish to keep fighting.  However, vanishingly few believe the proxy war will end anytime soon.

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order—but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians.

BRICS+ is contradictory, uneven, and fragile—but in its openings, the Global South carves space for sovereignty and struggle Multipolarity Emerges from Crisis, Not Consensus The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it […]

Layoffs are scary. They are also rampant. Over the last 25 years, somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 2 million people lost their jobs in a typical month as a result of being laid off or fired.

Palestinians have delivered testimony after testimony about the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run “death traps” masquerading as aid sites. But no one listened until Haaretz published direct testimony from the perpetrators.

Tariffs raise the prices of imported goods in the domestic market relative to money wages, which is what makes possible, at least in part, the replacement of such imports by domestically-produced goods. Tariffs do not of course lead to all imports being eliminated, but some clearly are.

The move came hours after Zionist far-right influencer Laura Loomer raged online against the arrival of severely wounded children in U.S. hospitals.

Today marks the beginning of Fidel Castro’s centenary—a hundred years since the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

This isn’t sad, it’s enraging. And it deserves a response of unmitigated forceful aggression.

President Donald Trump has now put troops on the District of Columbia’s streets in both of his terms. This time around, the Washington Post is less alarmed.

Between the null vote promoted by Evo Morales and the dispersion of the progressive camp, the right wing is poised to reopen the neoliberal path that the MAS had closed for twenty years.

As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.

Some unpalatable takeouts from the killing fields of Gaza.

Imagine you get a letter from your manager a week before you are set to teach classes, removing you from teaching duties but saying you’ll get paid anyway.

Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution.

The recent mass demonstrations held in Israel against the heinous plans of the Netanyahu Government to takeover Gaza remind us that societies aren’t monolithic entities; they contain conflicting forces within them.

Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history–can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?

We speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection,” published in Boston College Law Review in April 2025. Raghavan builds on the work of constitutional money theorists, as well as his legal experience in the public sector. In particular, he argues that consumer financial protection is an essential and potentially radical response to the “finance franchise,” a predominantly anti-democratic process by which modern governments delegate the money creation process to private actors like banks.