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

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez Alava and sociologist María Páez Victor rejected allegations that Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and the Chavista leadership betrayed President Nicolás Maduro.

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.

No amount of money can repair the damage which has been caused to the African people through the transatlantic slave trade, classical colonialism, and today’s neocolonialism. No amount of money can pay for that damage. The essence of reparatory justice is a just reconstruction of the world, an entirely new world.

This is Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor. I’m joined by Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report contributing editor. We’ll be discussing the renewal of the U.S. war against Iran, but also the larger connections with U.S. actions worldwide, and analyze the U.S.-EU-NATO axis of domination and its continued commitment to war and to militarism.

Lau Kin Chi: Both the U.S. and Iran said they have won the war, and so what do you think about these two proclamations? Who do you think won the war?

When people look at Venezuela from the outside, they often reduce Chavismo to its leadership. Leadership is important, of course, but it is only one part of a much broader reality. Over time, the Bolivarian Process has built institutional strength, political organization, territorial presence, and forms of popular participation that go far beyond electoral politics.

Today, the United States is acting according to its own rules. On January 3, it sent a message not only to Venezuela but to the entire continent: it remains the most powerful military force on the planet, and it is prepared to use that force.

AMY GOODMAN: In a rare reversal for the Trump administration, the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday the Department of Justice would not be moving forward with the $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund, even after the temporary pause mandated by the court.

COM: We already know right now the situation in Bolivia and the crisis is currently unfolding. What can you say about what is happening right now, about the strike?

CounterSpin interview with Karma Chávez on academic freedom.

Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.

“Integrating earth sciences and life sciences is not an external addition to Marxism, but rather a deepening of its own materialist method.”

Earth scientists Brian Toon and Alan Robock discuss their latest book on nuclear winter, “Earth in Flames” (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Michael Hudson: My view is probably in agreement with what the military is said to have discussed with Donald Trump last night and for the last few days. They’ve all told him that the invasion cannot work without an enormous sacrifice, and the United States ever since the Vietnam War, that led to the ending of the draft, no longer has a landed army.