Archive | December, 2025

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awarded decorations to officials who are illegally sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union on January 10, after his swearing-in as the country’s constitutional president for the 2025-2031 term.

Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.

As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution.

A statement from Katherine Franke, a longtime Columbia Law professor who was terminated after defending student Gaza protests.

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.

Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.

What do Panama, Canada and Greenland have in common? Could Donald Trump be getting the US back to brass tacks, to a core strategy of dominating the Western Hemisphere?

Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.

With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.

Chris Bambery looks at the reasons for the new president’s threat to buy Greenland and finds there is military logic in the madness, and behind it the growing rivalry with China.

World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.

Beverly Hills billionaires, fires, climate change, and the ecocidal terraforming system that underpins the California way of life.

Rafael Barrett has always been close to the hearts of Paraguayan radicals, who, along with his progeny, have kept his memory alive. And he is known throughout the Southern Cone of South America, though his work has suffered long periods of relative neglect there.

BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth. BRICS now has 10 members and 8 partners. They make up 41.4% of global GDP (PPP) and half the world population.

Thought-provoking and polemical as ever, the recent publication of Domenico Losurdo’s “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”, finally provides English readers with access to the prolific Italian philosopher and militant’s penultimate book.

John Mullen writes about the Nazi and colonial origins of Jean Marie Le Pen, and how they continue to influence French politics today.

There are at least three basic differences between European nationalism as it developed in the seventeenth century and the anti-colonial third world nationalism of the twentieth century.

In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic book ‘The Ecology of Fear’, he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy “Los Angeles frontiers” and the massive public resources dedicated to keep it from igniting.

Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.

Firefighters are being flown in from neighboring states like Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as local resources have been depleted. This shortage can be directly attributed to recent budget cuts signed by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, with the Los Angeles Fire Department seeing a $17.6 million reduction, while the police department received a $126 million increase.