Archive | October, 2025

The World Bank’s 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa. Urging trade liberalisation, it promised growth from agriculture.

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, One Battle After Another, has a lot happening, with many layers, characters, and themes.

The ability to use your freedom of expression to try to change what the government does is, in fact, why the First Amendment was put in the Constitution in the first place.

Nowhere is this more visible than in Texas, where more than 280 complaints have reportedly been filed against K-12 educators alone for alleged “disrespect” toward Kirk or his political legacy.

Regional leaders have responded to the bravery and steadfastness that Gaza’s Palestinians have shown with fear, cowardice and self-interest.

The generals at Quantico did not give their response to Trump. They listened in silence and left in silence.

In an interview with BdF, Paulo Nogueira Jr. analyzes the transformation of the international order to multipolarity.

A billboard in Montgomery, Alabama, has ignited a storm of backlash after displaying the words “It’s Time to Get the Clowns Out!” alongside images of people in racist blackface, all framed in the branding of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

Collective work and the new consultation processes are examples of how Chávez’s vision lives on in this politicized community.

Donald Trump has declared war on the “enemy within” and put the military on notice that they will mete out the same treatment domestically that they dispense around the world.

The immediate cause of the Gen-Z protest was the Oli Government’s announcement of its intention to ban social media apps in case they fail to register themselves under regulations within the stipulated time frame.

The communist movement in Palestine and Israel is as old as the twentieth century upheavals that reshaped the Middle East.

Minister Padrino urged the White House to “carefully consider its actions,” warning that its “miscalculations” could lead to a global conflict.

Right-wing media are mostly tickled. The New York Post editorial board (7/18/25) celebrated: “Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for the toxic, biased propaganda that federally funded media have been poisoning America with for the last 60 years.”

The debate over transgender identity and ideology would make a great lesson in covering controversial social issues, an important part of the job of journalism instructors. Such teaching wouldn’t be advocacy, except perhaps advocacy for the clear thinking necessary for good journalism.

This dead-end has to be located in a historical context.

Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative AI systems, are pushing hard to get them into U.S. public schools as well as colleges and universities. Their interest goes beyond short term profits—it is also about “grooming” a new generation to accept, if not embrace, the world big tech seeks to […]

7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. At least 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during this time–30 out of every 1,000 people.

MAGA Republicans have shut down the government once again after lawmakers failed to strike a deal to keep the lights on, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay and millions of Americans facing the possibility of losing affordable health care.

Administration hardliners Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio are said to be pressing for military actions inside Venezuela, citing unproven counternarcotics claims.