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The importance of Anand Teltumbde’s thoughts in a Republic of Caste
Anyone engaging seriously with Teltumbde’s work will know his beliefs are antithetical to the crimes he is being accused of.
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‘The Canary in the Coal Mine’: Sri Lanka’s crisis is a chronicle foretold
Sri Lanka’s acute economic crisis and sovereign debt default, along with its people’s uprising in 2022, has drawn attention across the world. It is described as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, that is, a harbinger of the likely future for other global south countries. Eric Toussaint, spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of […]
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The hypocrisy of the Assange case
One count of conspiring to receive national defense information, seven counts of obtaining that information, nine counts of disclosing it, and one count of conspiring to access a computer.
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Schumer lets Aide kill key drug price reforms
The decision comes as Schumer is now the Senate’s #2 recipient of pharmaceutical industry campaign cash.
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“Russian propaganda” just means disobedience
You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized.
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America’s biggest reservoirs hit by dead pool jitters
Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead is dangerously close to dead pool status for the first time since construction in the mid 1930s. A vicious hammering drought sequence for over two decades throughout the West threatens to bring America’s biggest water reservoir to its knees.
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Africa remains at the center of a 21st Century Cold War
Leaders and officials from Russia, France and the United States are vying for influence over the 1.3 billion people living within the African Union’s 55 member-states.
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Most of the “fact-checking” organizations Facebook uses in Ukraine are directly funded by Washington
Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
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Dems’ gift to their Wall Street donors
Democrats were set to mostly preserve, not close, a Wall Street tax loophole, before they dropped it entirely.
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It’s a necessity: Necessity defense in abortion access contexts
In recent years, climate activists charged with crimes for trying to avert our impending global death via climate change have increasingly turned to the “necessity defense” in court to defend against their charges.
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Inside the Democrats’ climate deal with the devil
The new climate package furthers the U.S.’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.
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Cuban vaccine against lung cancer makes its way in the United States
Cimavax-EGF, a Cuban therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, conquers the scientific community and the population of the United States based on the achievements compiled in studies carried out.
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How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines
New documentary discloses the ways western publics are softened up for aggressive, global U.S. militarism through the Defense Department’s influence over thousands of US films and TV shows.
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Colombia witnesses one of the worst killing-sprees of 2022
According to the Institute of Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ), 20 citizens were murdered in six massacres in the past 10 days. Five social leaders and five ex-combatants were also assassinated in the same period.
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Reaching a balance with wild species
The global biodiversity crisis is one of the great threats to planetary health.
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Sri Lankans seek a World in which they can find laughter together: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2022)
On 9 July 2022, remarkable images floated across social media from Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital. Thousands of people rushed into the presidential palace and chased out former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, forcing him to flee to Singapore.
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Latin America’s leading Countries reaffirmed their principled neutrality
For as different as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico are, they’re all united in the common cause of practicing principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian Conflict, which makes them Latin America’s multipolar leaders.
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Marx’s ‘Capital’
Capitalism comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt”. So concludes Marx after a lengthy account of the transition from feudalism to capitalism near the end of Capital, Volume I.
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Black Alliance for Peace condemns FBI attack on the African People’s Socialist Party
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the latest domestic U.S. state repression and intimidation tactics currently being leveled against the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).
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Canada could learn from Cuba’s sustainable agriculture
Cuba has more than 380,000 urban farms producing 1.5 million tons of vegetables each year.