Archive | December, 2025

Following the ceasefire, Toufic Haddad reflects on the complicity & failures of global powers & institutions. We must keep mobilising against Israel’s crimes.

China’s GDP growth of 5.0% in 2024 meant it successfully hit its GDP goal of “about 5.0%” for the year. More significantly for China’s strategic economic development, Figure 1 shows that it means its economic growth continues to be ahead of the target discussed at the time of the adoption of the 14th Five Year Plan of doubling GDP between 2020 and 2035.

“Can Trump’s Second Act Work for the Working Class While Giving Back to His Super Donors?” asks NPR.com

The collective energy demand of data centres in the United States is so high that Microsoft recently reached a deal to reopen Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history.

On Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump in The White House during his second term. During the meeting, Trump doubled down on previous suggestions to remove Palestinians from Gaza.

Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.

One million people mobilized in the City of Buenos Aires–according to the organizers–as a result of the fuse lit by the LGBT community.

The immediate task for Canada should be to delink from the United States and the American Empire.

As the dust settles in regime-changed Syria, a new reality emerges–one where the victors are not liberators, but former Al-Qaeda warlords restyled in suits, shaking hands with world leaders, and reshaping the state in their own sectarian image.

These funds were delivered during Guaido’s ‘interim government’ as ‘humanitarian aid’ through an NGO that belong to politicians who live without working abroad.

Ottawa has stayed silent on Rwandan aggression while continuing to back Africa’s most ruthless regime led by Paul Kagame.

In 1950, Nevada Democratic Senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.” 

Gitmo, Yesterday, Today… and Tomorrow

The executive order “directs implementation of a next-generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missile, and other next-generation aerial attacks.”

Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024). What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Odious Debt shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their foundation, and outlines how Latin America’s forgotten history of contestation can shed new light on seemingly intractable contemporary dilemmas.

2025 started off with many a bang.

These closures are a cruel, anti-democratic attack on all workers that demand a strong response from unions across Canada.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released an AI model called R1 that is comparable in ability to the best models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but was trained at a radically lower cost and using less than state-of-the art GPU chips.

Isn’t it high time we “augment” our nuclear force “posture”?

Writers and activists Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris reflect on the piece in the NYT which openly calls for a military intervention to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro.