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New Intermarium: Biden, NATO pledge support to NATO’s Nine-Nation eastern flank
The members of the Bucharest Nine (9) NATO eastern flank Allies (White House terminology) held a virtual summit today from the Romanian capital that lends it name to the group.
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Israel’s illusion of normality collapses: May 2021
May 2021 has shattered Israeli illusions that they are immune from the volcano the country has created through its history of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
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Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada
Canada has a long history of humanitarian hypocrisy with regard to racial and ethnic discrimination. During World War II, “none is too many” referred to European Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany who were refused admission and sent back to Germany.
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Sacred Bones: Caste and COVID-19 in Delhi’s crematoriums
With an unprecedented volume of dead bodies, Brahmins and workers from other castes are working side by side in the crematoriums of Delhi. But caste defines every choice made among the pyres.
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An unsustainable burden of debt afflicts the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa. Part 5
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where health spending and human development levels are in a dramatic state, there is a stronger case than ever for unilateral suspensions of debt payments based on arguments recognized in international law; such as state of necessity and fundamental change of circumstances.
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The Tech-VC Bloc is key to understanding why work is getting worse
The promise of digital transformation is anchored in a discourse that the tech sector invented along with venture capital (VC) when they came together to lobby for reducing capital gains taxes in the late 1970s.
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Fanon’s renewal of the Marxist formula
In the vortex of the Algerian revolution Fanon’s return to ‘the Marxist formula’ was rooted in the concrete situation of a living struggle.
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Center-periphery relationships of pharmaceutical value chains
The internationalization of the pharmaceutical industry only rose after the internationalization of patent protection in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) (Haakonsson, 2009).
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ACURA Viewpoint: Sanctions and Forever Wars by Krishen Mehta
The U.S. has sanctions against over 30 countries, close to one-third of the world’s population. When the pandemic startedin early 2020, our Government tried to prevent Iran from buying respirator masks from overseas, and also thermal imaging equipment that could detect the virus in the lungs.
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Dan Ellsberg blows the whistle again at UMASS-Amherst Conference to commemorate his legacy
Dan Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who has been arrested more than 75 times for protesting the U.S. warfare state, has not mellowed with age.
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Sweden’s hands-off coronavirus model has failed
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell explained—in a now removed article in Dagens Industri, a Stockholm-based financial newspaper—that the country’s strategy to contain the virus would not “compromise our social functioning in a way that is more detrimental to any profits”.
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What are the real reasons behind the New Cold War?
The U.S. is launching a New Cold War against Russia and China in an attempt to deflect our attention from the escalating crisis of global capitalism.
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Oli’s virus ‘situation under control’ remark meets with criticism
Crisis continues to deepen with over 8,000 new cases and 53 deaths. Many from Oli’s orbit and over two dozen lawmakers test positive ahead of May 10 House session.
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Doctors in Nepal warn people could die on streets amid Covid crisis
Nepal reported 9,070 new confirmed cases on Thursday, compared to 298 a month ago.
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The Xinjiang genocide determination as agenda
Because of the world’s fundamental interconnectedness, the increasingly Cold War-like relations between The West and China have negative consequences for both systems and for the rest of the world.
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How the U.S. taught Judge Moro to “take down” Lula
How a U.S. State Department official taught illegal tactics to Brazilian judges and prosecutors that went on to be used to remove Lula from the 2018 presidential race
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Star Trek: Progressivism and corporatism don’t mix (part 2)
What is the point of Star Trek? Is it conceivable that all these treks among the stars are in fact subtle ways to spread and justify U.S. policies, ideology, militarism, and interventionism?
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In Kerala, the present is dominated by the future
Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people of Kerala have voted out the incumbent, seeking to alternate between the Left and the Right.
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Freedom Rider: Progressives capitulate to Biden
There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.
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Marx on technology
The longest chapter in Capital is the fifteenth, on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry.”