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Last month in New York at separate forums, two senior Democrat figures–John Kerry and Hillary Clinton–pointed to what they saw as major problems: the First Amendment was ‘an obstacle to building consensus’, and the ‘narrative’ in the press needs to be (even more) ‘consistent’.

October 15 marks the first day of open enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans–a time that will deliver chaos and confusion for many of the 34 million seniors who depend on these plans to pay their healthcare bills.

The old world is dying once again, but the U.S.-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.

Conceptual clarity and shrewd maneuvers are necessary to combat neo-fascism, a powerful social movement from above.

Whoever owns the narrative owns the world–and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as U.S. influence campaigns–or “perception management”.

The United States is waging an economic war against Venezuela.

The siege of north Gaza and Jabalia refugee camp enters its third week as Israel has cut off aid to some 200,000 people. On Saturday, Israeli forces bombed Beit Lahia, killing at least 80 Palestinians, in one of the largest massacres in months.

New institutional economics has received another so-called Nobel prize, ostensibly for again claiming that good institutions and democratic governance ensure growth, development, equity & democracy.

From the time the Europeans arrived on American shores, the U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Indigenous people and at the conclusion of the “Indian wars” in the late 19th century, of the estimated 10 million to 15 million native peoples, fewer than 238,000 remained.

Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.

The boundaries that separate higher education from “the rest” of the capitalist economy have eroded, imperfectly and unevenly but to a sufficient extent that the systemic force of financial markets dictates investment decisions and makes universities hard to distinguish from banks.

A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.

Banning Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network highlights the anti-Palestinian character of Canada’s terrorist list.

On Tuesday, Oct. 15, a large-scale military exercise named Kamandang commenced in the Philippines. The exercise, scheduled to run until Oct. 25, involves over 2,300 military personnel from the United States, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Britain.

The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market.

Tech companies are leveraging the misery of Palestinian war victims for their own profit.

The international community’s silence and inaction render it complicit in this brutal genocide.

An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.

The Alliance of Sahel States has already begun to change the conditions of the people in the region for the better. Bold actions, including the expulsion of exploitative mining contracts, put these nations in a better position to achieve and protect their national sovereignty.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”