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Blind Power: Nuclear plant’s irreversible impact on public and environment
Prerna Gupta talks to Dilnaz Boga about those affected by Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) in India’s thirst for electricity
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Inside Argentina’s university occupations
Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.
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‘The insurance industry is the fossil fuel industry’
CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on insurance and climate.
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BAR Book Forum: George Lipsitz’s Book, “The Danger Zone is Everywhere”
George Lipsitz: The Danger Zone is Everywhere focuses on how unjust access to housing and health skews opportunities and life chances along racial lines. It argues that housing insecurity and poor health are key components of an unjust, destructive and deadly racial order. The book shows how the tort model of injury in law and the biomedical model of health work to occlude structural racism by treating socially produced injuries as personal problems.
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Social media beyond corporate control
Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.
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John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Daniel Tutt on Georg Lukács and “The Destruction of Reason”
John Bellamy Foster speaks with Daniel Tutt about the work of István Mészáros and Paul Baran, contemporary irrationalist tendencies in left ecological thought, intensifying global class struggles, and the continued relevance of Georg Lukács’s The Destruction of Reason (1952), recently reissued with an introduction by Enzo Traverso by Verso in 2021.
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‘Western press obscured the sheer terror of what Israel had carried out’
CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks.
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U.S. shooting itself in the foot with info warfare in Africa
U.S. efforts to control information in Africa will ultimately backfire, says African journalist, author, and filmmaker David Hundeyin.
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Venezuela and the Ethics of Liberation: A conversation with Ximena González Broquen
The head of a prestigious research center talks about knowledge production in the Bolivarian Revolution.
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“People must realize that reality is not what is shown on tv”
The collusion of the mainstream media with this regime has drawn a screen over the real situation our country is in.
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Wolfgang Streeck: “Sahra Wagenknecht is the only one asking the right questions—and offering the right answers”
The famous German sociologist discusses the recent elections in eastern Germany, the need to return to the nation-state, left-wing communitarianism, and the shortfalls of right-populism.
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Culture, bread and revolution: A conversation with Natalia Molina
For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.
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They’re trying to pass laws to make dark money even darker
CounterSpin interview with Steve Macek on dark money.
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Venezuelan presidential election from a Serbian observer’s perspective – interview
There aren’t many countries that have been fighting off U.S. aggression for as long as Venezuela.
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From Pan Africanism to Afropessimism: Palestine and the degeneration of Black politics
For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause.
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What is the State & the challenge to transcend it?
John Bellamy Foster points to “Beyond Leviathan” by István Mészáros for insights into the ancient origins of the state and nature of its evolution over thousands of years, the necessity to move beyond the state and how to meet that challenge.
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As stock market crashes, is U.S. facing new financial crisis? Economist Michael Hudson explains
The stock market crashed on August 5, in a new “Black Monday”. What caused it? Is the USA on the verge of a new financial crisis? Ben Norton is joined by economist Michael Hudson to discuss the extreme volatility.
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‘The problem is, there’s no place for anyone to go’
CounterSpin interview with Keith McHenry on criminalizing homelessness.
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Don’t believe the hype: Venezuela is a democracy
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, discusses observing the recent elections in Venezuela and why the U.S. still seeks to undermine that democracy.
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Winds of change in India-China relations
There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his 15 years in power. Things are indeed moving in such a direction.