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.

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a buzz in the corporate media about President-elect Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on annexation.

Palestinian creator and producer Rashid Masharawi discusses ‘From Ground Zero,’ a collection of twenty-two films by Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza.

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?

Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.

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.

World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.

Beverly Hills billionaires, fires, climate change, and the ecocidal terraforming system that underpins the California way of life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The former Uruguayan president asked to be kept out of public activities since he is dying.

2025 is set to be the ‘break-out year’ for artificial intelligence.

The NIA claimed before the Bombay HC that it would ‘expedite the trial’ in the case in which charges are yet to be framed.

How much above this warming target and for how long overshoot persists will determine the likelihood of emergence of dangerous tipping points in the climate system.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirms support for migrants amid Trump’s deportation plans, and proposes a regional summit to address the causes of immigration.

When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.”

Wikileaks has just put all its files online.

RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy.