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Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south
A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down.
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From Nixonomics to Trumponomics
The 50-Year Evolution of the GOP.
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To prolong the war in Ukraine U.S. allows ATACMS use on Russia
The ATACMS missiles Ukraine had so far been allowed to fire, mostly against Crimea, have been carriers of cluster ammunition with a reach of some 160 kilometer.
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Blacks and Hispanics seeking parole face widening racial disparity, report finds
After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality. It didn’t help.
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The planet under threat of breakdown
There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on.
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Redefining net zero will not stop global warming
In a new study, led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and published today (18 November) in Nature, an international group of authors who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on ‘natural carbon sinks’ like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use will not actually stop global warming.
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Colonialism: A cancer that must be eradicated in the Twenty-First Century
Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South”
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Will Biden’s legacy be war with Russia? – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on POTUS in the last chance saloon.
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“A People’s History of Detroit” – Book Review
Composing a history of Detroit is an exercise in tying together many economic and social trends within a microcosm of class, race, and fraught politics. Mark Jay and Philip Conklin’s work discusses the 20th-century history of the city to offer a documentation of class struggle seen through the industrialization of the city in the early 20th century, the racial tensions of the post-World War II period, and, finally, the simultaneous processes of decay and development in the last three decades.
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‘They killed them without them moving a muscle’: Field executions, starvation, and forced displacement by Israeli army in northern Gaza
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.
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Venezuelans debate 30-year plan for popular Democracy in historic Bloc Congress
President Maduro called to “shake the foundations of the Venezuelan bourgeois state […] and build a communal, democratic state of the people.”
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Trump proclaims Argentina’s fascist President Milei a model for incoming US administration
In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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CIA Democrats and other Party hawks win races in 2024 election
They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago.
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Yulia Skripal reveals the biggest secret of all at Novichok show trial-The attack was a British operation, not a Russian one
Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside.
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Trump’s racist, sexist, anti-science, anti-trans cabinet: A declaration of war on the working class
Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are a declaration of war against the entire working class. These choices are a domestic version of the Pentagon’s “shock and awe” invasion tactics and are meant to smash any opposition.
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Capitalism is perpetual crisis
Crisis is endemnic to capitalism, writes Alex Snowdon in his monthly Marxism 101 column.
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Implications of a second Trump term for working class and oppressed peoples
Irrespective of the rhetoric that characterized the campaign, the world’s majority will continue to be compelled to struggle against imperialist exploitation and oppression.
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Left-wing alliance wins two-thirds majority in the Sri Lankan parliament
With the parliamentary victory, the leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake is better placed to implement his agenda of economic and political reforms in the crisis-hit country.
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Why all hurricanes should be named “Jim”
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes.
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How Trump will seek revenge on the Press
The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.