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Biden shuts down U.S.-Mexico border
Border shutdown will go into effect immediately, barring asylum seekers from entering the United States.
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On China’s overcapacity
According to Western politicians and neoliberal economists, China’s industrial subsidies and production capacity are to blame for the U.S.’s trade deficit and its apparent inability to reindustrialise its economy.
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“Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian lawyer censored by Columbia and Harvard
The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah titled “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.”
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U.S.-EU assets pushing color revolution in Georgia
Over 25,000 NGOs are active in Georgia, and most rely on funding from Europe and the U.S. A new bill aiming to reign in Western meddling has sparked furious anti-government protests explicitly encouraged by Washington.
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Ninety years of a life to end wars
H. Bruce Franklin, who was deeply involved in the movement against the Vietnam War, died earlier this month.
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Llaneros resist the blockade: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part II)
When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.
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Teamsters and Amazon Labor Union announce affiliation, member vote still ahead
The Amazon Labor Union and the Teamsters have signed an affiliation agreement.
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Organizing ranchers in the Venezuelan Llanos: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part I)
How communards in the Venezuelan plains region produce, organize, and resist the impact of the U.S. blockade.
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Third U.S. farm worker infected with highly pathogenic bird flu virus
As of May 31, 2024, 69 herds have been impacted across nine states, according to the USDA. Health authorities are also monitoring 350 people who have been exposed, but only 40 farm workers have consented to testing.
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The three great myths of NATO
The self-proclaimed defence alliance sees itself as the guardian of law and democracy. In reality, it is leaving a blood trail of devastation across the world.
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Cisgender activists speak: Why is supporting trans rights important?
A mere decade after the Stonewall Rebellion, as the LGBTQIA+ community was winning some victories, the right wing began mobilizing to take them away. It began in Dade County, Florida, as former Miss America Anita Bryant led a campaign called “Save Our Children.”
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A cautionary tale for open science: AlphaFold3
A NEW AI (Artificial Intelligence) model, AlphaFold3, has excited the scientific community.
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Red Traces, Part 17: The golden age of Islamic science
Medieval Muslim thinkers ironically provided the intellectual foundations for the rise of the West, writes Sean Ledwith.
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The military-industrial complex is killing us all
Freeing ourselves from the monster destroying our planet and our futures.
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Palestine, too, shall be free–the liberation of all oppressed people in the whole of Africa and the world
Israel, as a settler colony, perceives Palestine as ‘empty land’, empty of people, culture, history and a future. Busani Ngcaweni argues that Palestinians are denied an identity and have become dis-membered, without a home, state or nation. There are striking similarities, Ngcaweni explains, between Israel’s ideology of racial subjugation by a ‘God-chosen people’ and apartheid South Africa’s belief in racial and religious superiority over an inferior black race.
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I witnessed an alternative to the U.S. homelessness crisis in socialist Cuba
Within the United States, homelessness has become a permanent feature of the capitalist system, and around 650,000 U.S. residents sleep on the streets on any given night.
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A lone Dayak community’s last stand against palm oil
The Dayak peoples of Borneo have been fiercely resisting the encroachment of palm oil plantations on their ancestral lands for many decades.
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“The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government” – Book Review
An establishment friendly history of the first Labour government, in 1924, shows how willingly a Labour leadership can be captured by the ruling class, finds John Westmoreland.
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The U.S. empire isn’t a government that runs nonstop wars, it’s a nonstop war that runs a government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the U.S. empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.
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How BJP masked its class agenda with false religious narrative
In attacking the wealth tax proposal, the PM whipped up hatred against Muslims, trashed Congress, thereby protecting his super-rich patrons.