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To best understand inequality, think class, not generation
Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story.
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War on Gaza: Death toll from Israeli assault could exceed 186,000, Lancet warns
Letter published by experts in the British medical journal estimated that some 10,000 people could still be buried in the rubble in Gaza.
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Oklahoma’s Bible requirement is a part of a broader Rightwing assault
The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.
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NYT unleashes the Lab Leak theory on the public debate once again
The lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has been something of a zombie idea in public discourse, popping up again and again in corporate media despite numerous proclamations that it’s finally been debunked.
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Six Supreme Court judges declare the U.S. a dictatorship
Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want.
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The corporate greed behind Bird Flu
If we want to protect consumers from disease and price-gouging, we need to tackle the food monopolies and industrial factory farms that control our food system.
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Tobacco companies are at it again
Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.
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Ansar Allah are not working with Al-Shabaab – Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad
U.S. and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the U.S. is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.
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When the empire strikes back, will the African world be ready?
These are dark days for the empire.
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People’s history of fourth of July
A collection of more than a dozen people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.
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Debunking the school choice movement’s top evangelist
Corey DeAngelis is on a mission to demonize public schools—and promote voucher programs that benefit his wealthy backers.
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Israel is stoking all-out war, and Canada is complicit
Far from ending the genocide in Gaza, Israel continues its assault with the military and diplomatic backing of Western states.
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July 28, an equation with multiple unknowns
A deep dive into the complexities and uncertainties surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential elections.
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Muzzling the dogs of war: The time to stop the madness is now
It may be time to think the unthinkable: all the signs are pointing to the West preparing to launch a proper war in Europe. Once started it could bring, for the first time in living memory, millions of Western civilians into uniform and see the cities of the West attacked. Preposterous? Jumping the Shark? Listen to what the leaders in the West are saying. The time to stop the madness is now, not once the elites drive us into the abyss and civilians are stripped of all rights to oppose.
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The Samson Option: Israel’s plan to nuke its opponents
What’s ambiguous about Israel’s nuclear policy is not whether the country has these weapons, but how it plans to use them.
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Killer heat waves: Workers need action now
While tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods grab headlines, extreme heat is the top weather-related killer, says FEMA.
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Reports on heat waves and flooding usually neglect to explain why they’re happening: Study
This month brought yet another record-breaking spate of flash floods and deadly heatwaves across the U.S.
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Columbia University Hind’s Hall defendants reject deals in solidarity with the CUNY 22
Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement.
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On The Rewriting of History
[Britannica’s revisionist] distortions of the history of the Vietnamese struggle are just as radical and just as misleading [as those about the Soviet Union]. Here we may draw some valuable lessons about the hidden content of form: how apparently neutral principles of organization may shape meaning.
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Renewable transition or global U.S. empire? You can’t have both
There is no path to a renewable future which leaves American hegemony in place.