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Statement by the Communist Party of Israel on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza
Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.
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America preying on our universities
We should talk about a malignant influence on Australia’s security which has long been harboured unquestioned–so-called independent think tanks.
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Trump’s Texas tycoons
Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.
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Bird flu: Another capitalist crisis
Since 2022, the largest bird flu outbreak in history has raged across the United States.
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With 350,000 in attendance, Claudia Sheinbaum’s Zocalo rally shows Mexico’s fourth transformation is thriving
Throughout her hour-long speech Sheinbaum addressed the central role of empowering women in her presidency, outlined her policies and achievements so far and directly spoke to relations with the United States.
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The Great American RedNote Migration
A modern digital cold war & clash of civilizations.
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President Maduro decorates Officials sanctioned by U.S., Canada, and European Union
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awarded decorations to officials who are illegally sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union on January 10, after his swearing-in as the country’s constitutional president for the 2025-2031 term.
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Why firing the prison guards involved in Robert Brooks’ death is neither quick nor easy
Our investigation in 2023 exposed how New York’s discipline system failed to hold abusive guards to account.
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COVID-19 advocates are distributing masks to protect Californians from wildfire smoke
As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution.
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Annexation redux: Trump’s expansionist threats unmask longstanding policy
In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.
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Palestinian filmmakers are doing the impossible to capture their stories
Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.
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Trump is cutting the last threads of the tattered cloth of ‘the rules-based international order’
What do Panama, Canada and Greenland have in common? Could Donald Trump be getting the US back to brass tacks, to a core strategy of dominating the Western Hemisphere?
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Mary and her monster
Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.
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Buying Greenland: Trump’s Arctic manoeuvres
Chris Bambery looks at the reasons for the new president’s threat to buy Greenland and finds there is military logic in the madness, and behind it the growing rivalry with China.
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‘The rich are on course to destroy all our lives’
World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.
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Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles
Beverly Hills billionaires, fires, climate change, and the ecocidal terraforming system that underpins the California way of life.
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Domenico Losurdo: “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”
Thought-provoking and polemical as ever, the recent publication of Domenico Losurdo’s “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”, finally provides English readers with access to the prolific Italian philosopher and militant’s penultimate book.
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‘The Fire Boom’
In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic book ‘The Ecology of Fear’, he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy “Los Angeles frontiers” and the massive public resources dedicated to keep it from igniting.
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The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism
Firefighters are being flown in from neighboring states like Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as local resources have been depleted. This shortage can be directly attributed to recent budget cuts signed by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, with the Los Angeles Fire Department seeing a $17.6 million reduction, while the police department received a $126 million increase.
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Targeting doctors and hospitals.. Killing life in Gaza
The latest is the martyrdom of 31-year-old Thabat Ibrahim Muhammad Salim, a volunteer doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, on 5 January, 2025.