Archive | July, 2026

PragerU is trying to take over American schools.

How colonial extraction became Guinea‑Bissau’s permanent bondage.

State legislatures can intervene to help control costs.

The question every country in the Global South must ask is simple: who controls, who benefits, and who pays?

The U.S. has arrived at a crucial juncture for public health and climate governance.

Fire survivors say using prediction markets to gamble on wildfire is “morally reprehensible.”

IT IS RARE that a single scientific paper shapes how people think about a challenge as daunting as climate change. But one, known as “Wedges,” published 22 years ago by researchers at Princeton University, told an irresistible story. 

Marx and Engels demonstrated that ideas arise from material social relations rather than existing independently of them. Gramsci showed how those ideas, once institutionalised within culture, help reproduce the very material relations from which they emerged.

The medievalist scholar was captured by the Gestapo while participating in the French Resistance and was later tortured and executed by firing squad.

This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career as a local administrator, Rendina walks us through the decades he spent supervising county initiatives, sketching out how local experimentation actively moved with and against broad macroeconomic shifts at the federal level.

An Elbit Systems presentation reveals the Israeli AI targeting system identified 850,000 potential targets during the Gaza and Lebanon wars, raising legal and humanitarian concerns.

Phosphate fertilizer is essential to industrial agriculture. Washington’s war on Iran has disrupted the routes that carry Gulf oil, gas, petrochemicals and fertilizer to the world market.

Kevin Crane takes on some common questions about Artificial Intelligence.

Amazingly the world trading arrangements are such that the inferior mode of adjustment is carried out whenever there are imbalances, and not the superior mode of adjustment. This is the irrationality of the world trading arrangements under which we live.

Factoring the true cost of U.S. capitalism and imperialism requires mapping what historian David Michael Smith terms the “endless holocausts” of U.S. empire.

The ground had hardly stopped shaking before Washington began advancing its agenda.

New Yorkers elected progressives and democratic socialists up and down the ballot in June’s Democratic primary, in what even critics acknowledged was “an historic near-sweep”.

White Helmets’ deployment to Venezuela is portrayed as a humanitarian mission that also advances Western influence through parallel state-building and regime change.

Every right workers and oppressed people hold was won through struggle. No worker can depend on the courts to defend rights that only struggle can protect.

The government made a great decision to nominate the Governor of Bihar Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.) to represent the country at the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.