Geography Archives: Global

This post starts a multipart series aimed at cutting through the fog of AI hype in order to help us understand some of the real dangers we face from AI use and highlight hopeful avenues of effective resistance. It offers an overview of my argument. Following posts will take up the relevant issues in more detail.

The dictionary tells us ‘pragmatic’ means: ‘dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations’.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

A recent report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has warned that we are entering an era of global water bankruptcy.

Urgent action is required to stem the growing tide of misogynistic abuse and sexual violence against women, writes Terina Hine.

As extreme heat intensifies across Indian cities, access to cooling, shade, and climate protection is becoming deeply unequal, exposing how urban heat disproportionately burdens low-income communities and informal workers.

It is not surprising that the only economies in modern times that have been characterized by full employment have been the Soviet Union and the socialist economies of eastern Europe.

Far from being oxymorons, the two concepts form a unique paradox.

Electricity is humanity’s most versatile form of energy and will be the 21st century’s energy source of choice. It is astonishing and bewildering that a president who considers himself the epitome of business savvy is deliberately kneecapping the ability of the U.S. to compete in the energy technologies and enterprises fundamental to surviving and thriving in the 21st century.

Google is one of the so-called ‘hyperscalers’, the mega tech companies that are ploughing huge of amounts of funds into AI, hoping and expecting it to lead to a sharp rise in profits down the road.

A new exhibition struggles to explain how the Marxist anti-imperialist became one of the most influential artists of all time, further commercialising her legacy.

China’s Marxist economic policy was developed to deal with a specific country at a specific stage of development. But this does not mean that it is not relevant to other countries.

The dollar may appear to be a neutral currency, yet it is in fact a form of imperial power, disciplining economies, financing war, and forcing the Global South to fund its own subordination.

During the 1960s and 1970s, it was an oft-repeated quip that the European left was long on theory and short on practice, while the North American left was strong on action, but allergic to theory.

Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

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.