Geography Archives: Global

Stand.earth analysis finds Microsoft’s energy-growth rate fastest among competitors, pollution growing 20% year-over-year.

Tech billionaires increasingly control our digital spaces, infrastructure, and society. How can we fight surveillance capitalism?

The conference in Lahore centered on the principal contradictions of our time: world capitalism, neocolonialism, and imperialism on the one hand, and the forces resisting them on the other. It is rare for seminars like these to have such clarity of purpose.

Scientists warn that AI-generated and AI-enhanced wildlife images could contaminate citizen-science databases, distort species records, and undermine conservation research.

The tool is called Biomni, and it is the first general-purpose biomedical AI agent. It does not just answer questions.

Replacing property with permission.

No amount of money can repair the damage which has been caused to the African people through the transatlantic slave trade, classical colonialism, and today’s neocolonialism. No amount of money can pay for that damage. The essence of reparatory justice is a just reconstruction of the world, an entirely new world.

We’re all terrorists now, maybe we should act like it.

Big Tech has looted humanity’s creative output to create artificial intelligence. We don’t just deserve a share of AI’s profits—we deserve control over it.

The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.

The irreversible decline of the U.S. empire’s global hegemony is not merely an economic or technological issue.

Over the last decade, digital sovereignty has emerged not only as a technical debate about network infrastructure but as the central pillar of political and economic autonomy in the 21st century.

The struggles over what kind of place we inhabit and what kind of people we want to be is a form of general political and social struggle that is central to what socialist consciousness must embrace. It is oppositional to the alienated and exclusionary nationalism that frequently attaches to the toxic form of developmentalism that too often corrupts anticapitalist politics.

These toys of the ultrarich are environmentally destructive and multiplying fast. They should not exist.

Pre-capitalist societies even in normal times have been characterized by a degree of deference by the common people towards the intelligentsia; this was strengthened by the role played by the intelligentsia during the anti-colonial struggle and the period of post-independence dirigisme in countries like India.

At the Marxism 2026 conference in Toronto last month, Ian Angus spoke at a release event for his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food.

IT IS RARE that a single scientific paper shapes how people think about a challenge as daunting as climate change. But one, known as “Wedges,” published 22 years ago by researchers at Princeton University, told an irresistible story. 

Marx and Engels demonstrated that ideas arise from material social relations rather than existing independently of them. Gramsci showed how those ideas, once institutionalised within culture, help reproduce the very material relations from which they emerged.

Kevin Crane takes on some common questions about Artificial Intelligence.