Archive | September, 2026

Rehearsal never really stops: people plan, argue, and intervene in their own reality all the time, so the distance between stage and audience was minimal from the start.

The last El Niño anywhere near this strong came in 1877. It set off famines that killed tens of millions of people across India, China and Brazil.

The challenges and dire threats surrounding the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence appear unlikely to move Congress or President Donald Trump to act as the U.S. Senate enters its last week before the midterms. 

John Mullen analyses the French far right and its left opposition ahead of the presidential election in May 2027.

Protest U.S. rulers’ blockade, threats of war.

“Insane that we allow this,” one journalist said of the rapidly advancing technology. “Sleepwalking into disaster or worse.”

After relying on an unreliable Trump for defense, suspending normalization talks with Israel, and losing access to the Bab-al-Mandab Strait, Saudi Arabia turns to hesitant allies for help.

‘Our margin for error in tackling these problems is shrinking’.

There is a dialectics of aggression and also a dialectics of resistance involved here. Imperialism was emboldened to attack Iran because of the relative ease with which it carried out its operations in Venezuela; and had the regime change in Iran occurred as easily as imperialism had imagined, then it would have been further emboldened to carry its attacks immediately to other countries. But the resistance in Iran, which came as a big surprise for it, has stopped it in its tracks for the time being.

The warning signs of the coming crash keep multiplying.

How the Trump Administration is using starvation and misery to achieve regime change in Cuba.

The ideology and methods used to eliminate Argentina’s National Institute of Tropical Medicine are exemplary, revealing the intentions of a project of profound social change, disguised in circumstantial justification.

International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump administration’s immigration operations.

California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a review of a possible mandatory AI “kill switch,” independent audits and incident reporting amid growing concerns over advanced systems escaping human control.

Trillions of dollars are pouring into artificial intelligence.

What is Social Reproduction Theory? It is a Marxist feminist term which covers how capitalism depends on unpaid care in the home for the ongoing reproduction of human life and labour.

On 20 September 2006, Hugo Chávez stepped up to the granite podium of the United Nations General Assembly. A day earlier, from that exact same spot, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, had spoken. Chávez crossed himself, said that the room still smelled of sulphur, and the hall burst into laughter and […]

Spike Lee directed two short films for Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.” This version was filmed in a prison and was aired only at certain hours due to controversial content.

The bosses are trying to convince workers that lower corporate taxes, fewer regulations and workers’ rights, and less union power would be good for real wages. What they really want is more profits.

In a deeper sense, a death from ectopic pregnancy is an indicator of whether a society will defend the lives of working-class women.