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A people’s history of Howard Zinn
On the hundred year anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth, Sean Ledwith examines the life and work of America’s greatest radical historian.
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Black King of Songs
His communism brought the great American singer Paul Robeson trouble in the U.S., but helped make him a hero in China.
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Inside the Right’s historic billion-dollar dark money transfer
Industrialist Barre Seid funded a new dark money group run by Trump judicial adviser Leonard Leo, who helped eliminate federal abortion rights.
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FBI harasses Cuban solidarity activists from Puerto Rico for delivering medical aid to the island
The president of the Cuba Solidarity Committee (CSC) of Puerto Rico, Milagros Rivera, denounces the intimidation operation unleashed by federal agents through calls and visits to several activists of the Committee and members of the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade.
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Why the Inflation Reduction Act is less a “Climate Bill” and more a poison pill for Black and Indigenous communities and movements
Among other problematic issues, the so-called climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act allow for more oil drilling on federal lands. Greenwashing and Democratic party duplicity are nothing to celebrate for Black and Indigenous communities.
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Will the Manchin Climate Bill reduce climate pollution?
The media coverage on the Inflation Reduction Act touts its 42% emissions reductions, but we dove into the math and it just doesn’t add up.
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Blaming China and other developing countries for climate change ‘is simply racist’
‘Time to call a spade a spade ….’
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Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Struggles and the Cuban Revolution
Former political prisoners have found refuge in the Caribbean-Island socialist state.
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What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok all have in common?
The social media outlets are an open door to organizations like NATO, military suppliers, and the Atlantic Council, with executives making decisions about what content is allowed to circulate widely on social media and what content is encouraged to support U.S. foreign policy goals.
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A next-level water crisis: Colorado River Basin faces Tier 2 restrictions
The unprecedented move arrives as southwestern states wrangle over how to cut water use.
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How NOT to win friends and influence people
After four years of Trump’s ‘America first’ isolationism, U.S. President Joe Biden announced “America is back”. His White House has since tried to find allies against China and Russia.
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Vietnam’s war remnants museum
There’s a saying that “the victor writes history”. Standing in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the question arises: Who wrote the history of the Vietnam War we were taught in Australia?
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Debt and the transition to regenerative agriculture
I grew up in a small town in Vermont, and like many I learned to love the smell of fresh cow manure being spread on fields in the spring.
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U.S. taunts Russia to escalate in Ukraine
In military terms, the crude, locally assembled drone dropping a country-made bomb or two on unguarded sites in Crimea are at best pin pricks in the big picture of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. But it can be profoundly consequential in certain other ways.
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Dr. Oz pushes Medicare privatization for all
The New Jersey TV doctor wants to privatize Medicare—and tax workers to boost the profits of insurance giants whose stock he owns.
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After nuking Japan, U.S. gov’t lied about radioactive fallout as civilians died
After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, U.S. government officials lied to the media and Congress, claiming there was “no radioactive residue” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that civilians did not face “undue suffering,” that it was “a very pleasant way to die.”
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Climate change has long prompted migration, now it may drive anti-capitalist consciousness, too
U.S. government programs for migrants who cross the country’s southern border are punitive and disjointed.
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Apple warns of flaw that invites hackers into iPhones, iPads, Macs
Apple releases security patches to fix a vulnerability that hackers may be taking advantage of.
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Sleeping at the wheel: The Uber Files, the media, and the coup against labor rights
The recent reporting on the Uber Files—a series of 124,000 communications, dated from 2013 until 2017, that Mark McGann, one of Uber’s top lobbyists, leaked to The Guardian—has shed light on the company’s strategies to gain global prominence during its nascent years.
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Sanctions and the decline of the dollar
The hegemony of the U.S. dollar was based on the fact that the world’s wealth-holders considered it to be “as good as gold”, even when it was no longer officially convertible to gold at a fixed rate, as it had been under the Bretton Woods system, after the collapse of that system.