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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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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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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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A closer look at America’s water crisis
New Mexico’s unprotected waters demonstrate how pollution, drought, and the climate crisis converge to harm communities.
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NATO’s spiralling commitments to Ukraine risk catastrophe
We are on the possible verge of a major escalation in the war in the Ukraine, one which risks war between NATO and Russia, and one involving nuclear weapons, argues Chris Bambery.
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Will the Cocos Islands become like Diego Garcia, highjacked by the U.S.?
The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant U.S. military base.
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How tens of thousands of grad workers are organizing themselves
It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades.
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Britain’s century long Opium trafficking and China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ (1839-1949)
In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations.
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‘We’re seeing Universities following a corporate agenda to get favor with donors’
CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom
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The unheard voices: How society silences women
In our country and across the world, the voices of women often go unheard. Whether it is a gasping plea of ‘I can’t breathe’ or a harrowing confession of ‘He raped me,’ the voices of women are frequently dismissed, disbelieved, or outright ignored. This tragic reality stems from a deeply ingrained societal bias that views women as manipulative, deceitful, and cunning. Through this gendered lens, society perpetuates a culture of scepticism and distrust toward women, effectively demonising them and invalidating their experiences.
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Ontario Federation of Labour rallies with students at UofT encampment
As attacks kill yet more civilians in Rafah, students at their allies at UofT say they will not stop pressuring the university to divest from Israel.
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Whether Bird Flu Is on the March Misses the Point
The New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of a Texan farmworker infected with HPAI H5N1. He suffered the hemorrhaging in the eye the cows he tended expressed.
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Digitalisation in India: The class agenda [Part IV]
Indian propagandists talk of India’s “emerging status as a technological powerhouse”, and the heads of the world’s largest technology corporations have started to refer to India as a global technology/software “superpower”, at least in their interactions with Indian media outlets.
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Hybrid wars in Latin America
Between June 13 and 15, the G7 Leaders Summit, the organization responsible for the neocolonial and financialist policies implemented at a global level, will be held in the Apulia region, in Italy.
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The slow-motion execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
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The mutiny at Dominica, 9 April 1802
As a Black army of mercenaries from Kenya, Barbados, Jamaica, and elsewhere arrives to continue the West’s colonial project in Haiti, we remember the history of the 1802 mutiny of African soldiers at Dominica.
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Tariffs, technology and industrial policy
Last Tuesday, the trade and technology war launched by the U.S/.on China back in 2019 took another ratchet up.
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Follow the money: How Israel-linked billionaires silenced U.S. campus protests
America’s universities are on fire.
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Dossier No. 76: The New Cold War is sending tremors through Northeast Asia
This dossier looks at how the U.S.-led New Cold War against China is destabilizing Northeast Asia, focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, and Japan.