Archive | August, 2026

The following article takes the two chains apart–four degrees of hedged separation in the British case, and in the American one the discovery that socialists are interested in socialism.

An eye-opening glimpse at the links between two congressional committees and more than 100 defense contractors, consultants, and lobbyists.

It was the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, later to be renamed Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that was enacted by the UPA-I government under Left pressure (since the government depended on Left support).

August 18 marked 90 years since the murder of Federico García Lorca, the great Spanish poet and dramatist who was executed by Franco’s fascist forces near Granada in 1936, during the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War.

We have to get back the kind of public intellectuals, real left intellectuals, Marxist intellectuals who are not just academics.

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.

Species that have evolved in stable environments, shaped by millions of years of constancy, may be the first to suffer.

The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

More incitement to violence from Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence is aimed at the entire colonised population.

IN June 2026, The Nature Index, one of the most well-regarded barometers of high-quality research, issued the annual Research Leaders rankings.

Currently, there are 36 liquefied natural gas terminals and expansion projects proposed, under construction or actively operating in the United States, with 28 concentrated in the Gulf Coast.

Siege, survival, and the dialectics of Venezuelan sovereignty.

204 Atomic Bombs, 66 Urban Areas. “Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”

A court in Baku sentenced four Azerbaijani citizens to prison terms of 18 months to two years on July 29 for promoting communist ideology and attempting to organize a march carrying Soviet flags.

Professor Leibowitz was raised as an Orthodox Jew and remained one throughout his life. I had become observant barely a decade earlier and was drawn to this brilliant polymath—a deeply committed Judaic scholar and a fearless critic of oppression and injustice. I was eager to understand his views on science, Judaism, and Zionism.

Meteorologists’ report shows record and near-record temperatures across the globe in 2025.

One of the most persistent and recycled claims in anti-communist “left” discourse is the way Black radical scholarship is selectively invoked to discredit Marxism itself.

Oman’s lesser-known communist separatist guerrilla. Today in 1965, Dhofar’s independence movement took up armed struggle.

Sixty-five years ago today (13 August), the “Berlin Wall” was erected.

Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. U.S. median wealth is quite low. This is the real data.