Archive | August, 2026

The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.

Kennard’s Irregular Army alarmingly exposes the open door to violent, far-right elements in the US army. This should be connected to imperial overreach, argues Reece Goscinski.

Huge scandal in Latin America: far-right election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested for trying to assassinate his ex-girlfriend. He oversaw disinformation campaigns for region’s conservative pro-U.S. presidents and has links to Trump admin.

The Pentagon is preparing to wage war in a warmer world, even as it accelerates it.

The signs of decay and decrepitude of a dying capitalism are all too evident at present.

So far in 2026, Cuba has received a single shipment of oil: some 100,000 metric tons of crude donated by Russia—and nothing else.

The sanctions mean all property and interests in property of the groups or individuals that are in the U.S. “or in the possession or control of U.S. persons” are blocked.

By Aug. 21, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms had sickened 10,930 people in 17 states, hospitalized 454 and killed two. The illnesses began June 14 and continued through Aug. 11.

New Documents Detail Industry Efforts to Roll Back Federal Methane Regulations But Maintain Emissions Monitoring System.

The collapse of a Himalayan glacier wreaked death and destruction as it cascaded down the valley. Feyzi Ismail explains why this is a result of climate crisis denial.

No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall.

Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore.

When imperialism turns knowledge, technology, and art into instruments of submission, radical traditions teach another lesson: oppressed peoples can seize those tools and transform them into weapons of liberation.

When The Jungle was published in 1906, writer and journalist Upton Sinclair hoped his novel would advance socialism by exposing the plight of the wage slave, dangerous working conditions, and the general hopelessness that undermined the working class’s struggle.

A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a sovereign state under siege and the other is the world’s most powerful empire waging war.

JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world.

The Trump regime’s mass deportations of Haitian people have begun.

Caste reality has still not ended, injustice against women has still not ended, and the problems of farmers and agricultural laborers remain unresolved—in such circumstances, the ideological foundation Dr. Gail laid out, and the path of action she demonstrated, continue to guide scholars and activists of the new generation.

Will the developed countries, the ones most responsible for this danger, finally face the situation, or will they wait until it is too late for everyone?