Archive | August, 2026

More than one quarter of all federal lobbyists are now lobbying on AI issues.

Andy Burnham’s gift of British blueprints for key missile components to Ukraine signals another step closer towards a wider European conflict finds Robert Dale.

Missile units on southern islands, troops moving on civilian ferries, command bunkers dug underground: a grassroots movement across Japan is trying to halt the drift back towards imperial confrontation. Remembering the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

To understand why work feels so meaningless today, we need to look at what human labor had to become for capitalism to come into existence.

A new study warns that Ukraine’s expanding system of memory laws has turned historical narratives into a tool of state enforcement, deepening restrictions on public discourse and intensifying efforts to shape national identity amid the conflict with Russia.

ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig argues that Professor Jason Arday’s suicide was a racist political killing, driven by a media and far-right campaign and enabled by liberal institutions, exposing the deepening crisis of racism and fascism under contemporary capitalism both in the UK and globally.

“Delinking means not submitting to the logic of the global capitalist system, and rejecting the inevitability of passively adapting to the requirements of integration into the world system”  (Samir Amin, Beyond US Hegemony? Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World, Zed Books, 2006, p. 27).

Bryan Palmer reviews a new collection tracing the lives and legacies of Sixties radicals.

Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Yosef denied Palestinian peoplehood and rights while calling for Gaza’s destruction and renewed Jewish settlement in the enclave.

A new study suggests climate models may be overestimating how much carbon forests will absorb in a warming world, raising the possibility that global temperatures could rise even more than current projections anticipate.

Colombia’s recently inaugurated right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella is moving rapidly to transform Colombia into a neo-colonial outpost after taking office in early August, giving the U.S. permission to enter Colombian territory under the pretext of “fighting drug cartels.”

From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces.

Thousands of children who lost their families in Israeli strikes navigate grief, trauma and adulthood with little support.

At this hour, solidarity begins with a clear demand: the United States and Israel must end their illegal war, and they must retreat.

No longer is economics ‘a dismal science’ that Thomas Carlyle was claimed to have called it in the mid-19th century. 

The water will recede. It always does. What matters is what we do in the months it leaves us.

In 2024, dozens of prominent researchers wrote an article in Science that introduced the world to a dizzying concept: the existential perils of so-called “mirror-life,” a type of organism based on molecular structures not found on Earth.

It is long past time for Canada to apply the principle of economic sovereignty consistently.

This book is a great tale of the lives of working-class New Yorkers.

Colombia’s ex President Gustavo Petro accused the USA and Israel of meddling in the election to put in power far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella, a pro-Trump U.S. citizen and ally of drug traffickers.