I want to start by acknowledging the significance of what has happened in the last ten days. We’re now in the midst of what we can definitively say is the biggest wave of mass protests in the United States since the 1960’s
Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
Two months of gains, but a huge jobs deficit remains, and deepening pain is on the horizon
Today’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows two months in a row of payroll employment gains, an increase in jobs of 4.8 million in June on top of 2.7 million in May. But, because so many jobs were lost in March and April, we are still 14.7 million jobs below where we […]
Guaido representative threatens FBI investigation into journalists exposing her dealings
Juan Guaido’s UK “ambassador” claims that she is working with the FBI in an investigation exposing a “transnational criminal network” of journalists and outlets, including Venezuelanalysis.
Freedom Rider: The police defunding con game
Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesn’t solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swindle.
The U.S. and UK are a wrecking ball crew against the pillars of internationalism
In both the case of the sanctions against the ICC and the theft of Venezuela’s gold, the United States and the UK demonstrate their disregard for international institutions and for international law.
How the law killed Ahmaud Arbery
In many states, legal regimes sanction the predictable murder of innocent black men. Justice will not be served until the law changes.
Canada’s membership in the Five Eyes alliance promoting conflict with China
It is time Canadians debate whether they want to be part of an intelligence group driving hostile relations with China.
‘Either you are fighting to eliminate exploitation or not’: A leftist critique of the Green New Deal
Canadian Dimension in conversation with essayist, researcher and historian Max Ajl
WOW Global 24 | Imaginando futuros: Eliane Brum
Em tempos de pandemia, quando a ordem é #ficaremcasa, mulheres do mundo todo juntam suas vozes no Festival WOW Global 24 Horas, que acontece nos dias 27 e 28 de junho.
Latin America under CoronaShock: Social crisis, neoliberal failure, and the People’s Alternatives
The first cases of COVID-19 were detected in December 2019 in Wuhan (China). In early March, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the rapidly expanding illness a pandemic.
Chart of the day
Yesterday morning, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that, during the week ending last Saturday, another 1.4 million American workers filed initial claims for unemployment compensation.
How do you spell desecration of African burials?: “Ni**er!”
Much of the nation may be repudiating white supremacy, but not Montgomery County, Maryland, which is paving over sacred Black ground in an attempt to bury its own racist history.
Vaccine imperialism
In March, COVID-19 breached the considerable defences of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The colossal nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which has played a central role in defending the U.S.’s imperialist interests over the past three decades, proved no match for the virus, which infected more than 1,000 crew members in a matter of days.
The brutality of capitalism
This essay connects police brutality to the brutality of capitalism. Capitalism has long promised a better life for people, a promise that was begrudgingly accepted by elites in the post-WWII age.
The world can show how Pharma monopolies aren’t the only way to fight COVID-19
The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock of remdesivir from Gilead, making it nearly impossible for this COVID-19 drug to be available anywhere else in the world.
In ‘Russian Bounty’ story, evidence-free claims from nameless spies became fact overnight
Based upon a bombshell New York Times report (6/26/20), virtually the entire media landscape has been engulfed in the allegations that Russia is paying Taliban fighters bounties to kill U.S. soldiers.
BlackRock’s rise shows the dark direction of monopoly capitalism
Matt Taibbi concluded that the 2008 Wall Street bailout had “built a banking system that discriminates against community banks, makes Too Big to Fail banks even Too Bigger to Failier, increases risk, discourages sound business lending and punishes savings by making it even easier and more profitable to chase high-yield investments than to compete for […]
Venezuela denounces ‘absurd decision’ of UK to retain its gold reserves
A British high court ruled on July 2 that because the UK recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president, it does not have to give the government of Nicolás Maduro access to the reserves.
George Washington and genocide
‘The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of [Iroquois Confederacy] settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible.… the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed.’ —Commands from George Washington to General Sullivan on May 31, 1779
Protest and power
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams.
