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Green growth
Capitalist and neocolonial fantasies are hampering a just transition.
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The narrative of sham elections
Every mainstream media outlet described the referenda in September in the Donetsk, Lugansk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR), Kherson Region and part of Zaporozhye as a “sham” and therefore “rigged.”
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Should we be worried about eight billion people?
Our immediate crisis is caused by a system that encourages endless growth, exploitation, waste and energy use.
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11 years on… UK gets what it was always after; Libya’s oil
British oil giants BP and Shell are returning to the oil-rich north African country just over a decade after the UK took part in destabilizing the nation with the 2011 military intervention.
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China pushes lifting of Zero-COVID after anti-lockdown protests
In the aftermath of last weekend’s protests in several Chinese cities, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) held a press conference Tuesday calling for speeding up the implementation of the 20 measures announced on November 11 which initiated the lifting of the country’s Zero-COVID policy that has suppressed numerous outbreaks over the past three years.
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‘The world now faces the challenges our people foretold’
Leonard Peltier: “Being my age and having spent these many years in prison plays on your heart to the nth degree. I am here because I wanted to make a difference for our people, and I want to encourage others to do the same.”
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U.S. commits to reignite space race during new Cold War vs. China, Russia
Artemis I is a dry run for the return to the moon, a test of the new Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule that will bring astronauts into lunar orbit on Artemis II and onto the surface on Artemis III.
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Zero-Covid and the China protests: look at the bigger picture
Ever since the world’s first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China.
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Book Review: ‘Before Crips’ dismantles dominant narrative on gangs
For the past several decades, the media has severely manipulated the question of gangs and their socio-economic origins. John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani’s new book, “Before Crips: Fussin’, Cussin’, and Discussin’” among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs, exposes the mainstream stigmas and half-truths surrounding gangs.
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‘Holy Land Foundation 5’ are victims of America’s unjust persecution of Palestinians
The case against the “Holy Land 5” led to the wrongful conviction and unjust long-term imprisonment of five highly respected Palestinian men. Three of them, Mufid Abdulqader, Ghassan Elashi, and Shukri Abu Baker, remain imprisoned today.
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Western media has not much evolved from the era of the yellow peril in its routine China-bashing
Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage.
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On the development of China’s environmental policies towards an ecological civilization
We are very pleased to republish this important article by Efe Can Gürcan, Associate Professor at Türkiye’s Istinye University, which originally appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 of the BRIQ(Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly).
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The environment may be the number one issue in the new agenda among progressive South American
Petro’s, Lula’s, and Maduro’s positions show South Americans are united about the Amazon; it may reintegrate Venezuela.
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Haiti in the Caribbean: A political economy perspective on the urgent crisis of imperialism
If Haiti is “the poorest country in the hemisphere” it is because imperialist policies continue to impoverish and destabilize that nation.
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Beating around the bush: polycrisis, overlapping emergencies, and capitalism
It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself. Obscure jargon of ‘overlapping emergencies’ and ‘polycrisis’ are brought up to describe the complexity of the situation, and they serve, with or without intention, to conceal the culprit, namely the totality of capitalist relations.
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The Russian Winter offensive
Russia is one or two more massive bombing attacks on Ukraine’s energy and transport infrastructure from permanently disabling Ukraine’s electricity, water, and railroad systems.
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The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley
An investigation into British and American collusion with the terror groups that kidnapped and murdered western hostages in Syria.
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It’s time to hold news media accountable for transphobia
Five people are dead and more than a dozen others injured after a gunman opened fire at Club Q, a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs in the early hours of November 20.
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“I was screaming and he was smiling”: DeSantis ran Guantanamo torture
There is more to than what meets the eye on DeSantis’ military past beyond a mere involvement in Guantanamo Bay.
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Supreme Court orders reparations for sex workers serving U.S. Military
Reminiscent of Imperial Japan’s “Comfort Women,” the organized sex trade near U.S. bases in Korea involved horrendous human rights violations.