Archive | December, 2025

The U.S. sees the emergence of China and other Asian countries as a ‘fierce competition’. For the Global South, however, these developments bring new opportunities to pursue sovereign development.

As the Washington Post faces a staff rebellion and plummeting subscription rates, billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has introduced a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.

The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine’s Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water supply in its attempt to crackdown on unlicensed mining.

The New Deal federal art projects never received the popular support Roosevelt himself enjoyed as president.

In this republished essay from 2017, John Bellamy Foster discusses how U.S. neofascism in certain ways resembles the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb. 1, 2024, which authorized the imposition of certain sanctions “on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”

A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t have any money to purchase coal.

Alternative Title: “For Beginners and the Forgetful: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Their Historical Cycles, and the Inevitability of a Global Redistribution War Led by the U.S.”

Thoughts on gay male culture as the Village People perform at the Trump inauguration.

The world is ruled by religious fanatics with nukes.

As Donald Trump takes office, he has revived one of his most audacious ideas: acquiring Greenland.

On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court launched a sweeping, unanimous assault on the First Amendment.

“Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats,” the group said. “The billionaires with close ties to our new president who flash the Nazi salute and seek to replace the old elites with a new caste—that is the real threat to America.”

The hood stays popped open the entire time, showing the whole world how the imperial sausage gets made.

Former detainees recounted abuse, violence and humiliation, even up to a few hours before they were released.

Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal also confronted Blinken, asking if he was ‘compromised by Israel’

In January 2024, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2050 climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in damage.

In this series, we (BAR Book Forum) ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis.

As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.