Archive | February, 2026

Any productivity gains from AI will come from job losses and any new value will swing to the owners of AI capital, not workers.

Israel lobby groups have spread doctored quotes by UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Francesca Albanese to defame her. Their desperate campaign is a testament to her work and the threat she poses by holding Israel accountable for genocide.

Grindr has been an economic pioneer; it sparked a whole industry of dating and hookup apps which wasn’t just limited to the sexually subversive. A few years later, for instance, there was Tinder, the “Grindr for straight people,” and dozens more apps have sought to mimic its success among a variety of orientations and identities.

Once relegated to the U.S.-Mexico border, surveillance technology is popping up in neighborhoods all over the country.

Venezuela’s oil won’t be decided by fine print. It will be decided by power. Who can enforce terms. Who can resist. Who can reverse what is imposed.

Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels—robbing him of fundamental civil and humanitarian rights.

With a record number of detainees and less oversight, migrant detention centers are on the brink of failure.

In a post-Iraq invasion world, these sorts of reports deserve nothing but a scoff and a dismissal.

The latest batch of files deepens the evidence, documented by Drop Site and others, that Epstein was engaged in assisting the Israeli state, serving as a go-between on commercial, diplomatic and intelligence matters.

After the Trump administration illegally kidnapped the legitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2026, we saw two distinct and divergent responses from Venezuelans. On the one hand, the Venezuelan diaspora, especially in the United States, celebrated President Maduro’s kidnapping and bombing of their birth country. They congregated […]

Conflict has torn Sudan apart.

Do sciences, such as ecology and epidemiology, demand an integral philosophy?

Cuban women embody resistance and resilience as they navigate daily challenges posed by the six-decade U.S. economic blockade, maintaining their communities and families with dignity and creativity.

Since the launch of Operation Metro Surge, federal judges in Minnesota have repeatedly ruled—hundreds of times—that immigration agents illegally arrested and detained people and must release them.

The Sea Horse ship carrying Russian fuel is heading to Cuba amid the island’s energy situation and defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s sanctions to impose tariffs, Bloomberg reported.

The death of James Petras—the American sociologist whose writings influenced generations of critical thinkers across continents—passed through the world almost like a whisper. A scholar who spent his life exposing the violence of power, the inequalities of global capitalism, and the illusions of empire left this world with little noise beyond small circles of readers […]

By invoking the spirit of Dr. Norman Bethune, we ground ourselves in the principle of internationalism as a path toward collective liberation.

Colin Leys’ intellectual life has long been shaped by Africa – its politics, its contradictions, and its enduring entanglements with global capitalism.

The Labour Together spying scandal shows how Britain’s mainstream press looked the other way when dirty tricks were deployed against the Left — allowing a culture of surveillance and paranoia to take political power.

Europe’s predicament today is thus no different from that of America.