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Ukraine timeline tells the tale
The way to prevent the Ukraine war from being understood is to suppress its history.
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Trump’s policy toward Latin America: Even anti-Communist Zealots in Miami don’t like it
The Trump administration’s volatility on foreign policy reveals internal divisions within Trumpism. But when threats and populism lose their momentum, the anti-communist hawks may get their way.
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Understanding Project Esther
This Purim, as Jews around the world tell the story of Queen Esther, we must also tell the story that Project Esther plans on carrying out. This Christian Nationalist plan intends to squash the Palestine solidarity movement, crack down on free speech and academic freedom, and deport those who speak out against Israeli apartheid.
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Did Left journalists buy into Right-wing ideology–or were they bought?
What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.
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The Oval Room, Kyiv and the Kremlin: Berlin Bulletin No. 232, March 14, 2025
Some world events can look different to those of us onthis side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at what Trump, Vance and Musk are doing and planning. Nor do I love Putin. But what I hate above all else is war—and is closer over here. I’m […]
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Why we need to stop capitalism’s runaway train: Interview with Ian Angus
Michael Lavalette spoke to leading ecosocialist Ian Angus about capitalisms’ ecocide, Trump and what we need to do stop global heating.
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Columbia University expels student protesters, fires union president amid ICE raids
Columbia University issued suspensions, expulsions, and temporary degree revocations to students connected to the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall, as ICE agents reportedly arrested a second Palestinian Columbia student on Friday.
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Echoing Nazi “Madagascar plan,” U.S. and Israel seek to displace Palestinians to East Africa
The U.S. and Israeli governments have opened up discussions with officials from Sudan, Somalia and the internationally unrecognized breakaway Somaliland over the mass expulsion of Palestinians in Gaza and their forcible relocation to those countries.
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Media obscure message of Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’
When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.
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Twenty-five days of debt-service payments could emancipate African women from 40 billion hours of water harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
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The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.
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UN investigation accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza through targeted destruction of health facilities
A United Nations investigation released on Thursday has concluded that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip by systematically targeting and destroying reproductive health care facilities.
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Seven silent measures against Cuba
Marco Rubio—Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him—is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize.
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Against Žižek’s Pessimism: Hope, Will, and the Dialectics of Liberation
Slavoj Žižek, one of the Western thinkers who is familiar with Marxist terminology, published an article in Philosophy Salon on January 27, 2025, entitled “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell.”
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The fog of class war
A class consciousness among the working masses, one that takes the issue of race seriously, is critical at this moment. Still, the democrats are working to disrupt this effort to organize against the capitalist elite.
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The scramble for Greenland
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.
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Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report
The Trump administration told U.S. government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report—the latest move to withdraw the U.S. from global climate action and research.
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Professor at center of Columbia University deportation scandal is former Israeli spy
Although she is now an academic, she has never left the world of international security, making the subject her area of expertise. She has made a point of trying to lift women’s voices in the field. One of these was the then-U.S. Director of National Security, Avril Haines, whom she spoke with in 2023.
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U.S. media’s sorry history of abetting immigration panics
Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of immigrants.
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We are duped into blaming our problems on everyone except our rulers
What poses a threat to you is the political status quo which robs your country of riches and resources to inflict military violence on innocent people overseas while strangling your civil rights and poisoning your planet.