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Media scorn Gaza protesters for recognizing corporate reporters aren’t their friends
An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.
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Eric Adams and the NYPD repress Dissent
New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well be the very worst of the Black misleadership class.
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Opposing the war machine is cool again, and the Empire’s getting nervous
American rapper Macklemore has released a single titled “Hind’s Hall”, the name given to Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall by anti-genocide protesters in honor of the six year-old Hind Rajab who was murdered in Gaza by Israeli forces.
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Countering the impact of the U.S. blockade: A conversation with Llanisca Lugo
A Cuban intellectual examines the consequences of the imperialist blockades on both Cuba and Venezuela.
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Suppressing pro-Palestinian speech is the new McCarthyism
The crackdowns on pro-Palestine protesters recast protected speech as harassment, and have little to do with protecting Jewish students from antisemitic threats.
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U.S. dooms itself to defeat in peaceful competition with China
Superficially in the recent period the U.S. has attempted to display two apparently contradictory sides of its policy to China.
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Mitt Romney says Congress supports banning TikTok for Israel
Antony Blinken says Israel is losing the PR war because of social media.
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The State Department report on human rights
Blinken knew exactly what he was doing, he could have delayed the release but he chose, instead to release the State Department’s “2023 Country Report” on the eve of his arrival in China.
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The Antisemitism Awareness Act is a full frontal assault on free speech
This blatant political chicanery would penalize political speech protected by the First Amendment.
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“To be free is to free others”: Formerly incarcerated women urge decarceration
The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
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The West’s double standards on Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill
Robinson: If Western states have their reasons for being cagey of foreign influences, so too do those in other countries.
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The end of lean production… and what’s ahead
Lean production, introduced in the 1980s from Japanese automakers, caught on in many U.S. industries.
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Students’ Gaza protests spread across Britain
Wave of campus occupations launched at six unis.
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The students will not tolerate hypocrisy: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2024)
From universities to grassroots movements worldwide, young people are fighting back against the complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestians, setting up encampments and facing repression with resilience. This resistance is rooted in a long tradition to impose clarity upon a world encrusted by compromise, from the movement against apartheid in South Africa to China’s May Fourth Movement.
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Behind southern governors’ anti-union agenda
Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Union.
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U.S. to send largest weapons shipment yet to Ukraine
“This is the largest security assistance package that we’ve committed to date,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a Pentagon news conference.
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‘This weaponization is meant to shift focus away from Gaza’
CounterSpin interview with Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine.
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‘What kind of American are you?’
The film Civil War addresses the paradox that the only way to stop polarisation is to take a side.
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Asian ‘NATO’ encircles China
The U.S.-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact, writes FIONA EDWARDS of the No Cold War campaign
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How the New York Times fights America’s wars
The New York Times is not an unbiased fount of information, but a sophisticated ideological weapon. Our goal is to unmask the Times and expose the paper for what it is: a tool of empire encased in a liberal veneer.