Subjects Archives: Culture

It is inevitable that such an event, in which there is a race against time and the elements, should attract the interest and concern of tens of millions.

The U.S. anti-war movement fondly remembers the former government employee who contributed to the end of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam

Elizabeth Gilbert decides to postpone book publication after “The Snow Forest” receives backlash for being set in Russia, a decision which brings forth a different kind of backlash.

Abba A. Solomon’s new book, “Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel,” chronicles the search for a Jewish identity not inextricably tied to Israeli Apartheid.

The war-torn east European country is a mecca for some of the most odious people on earth. What sort of threat does this pose to their home countries?

The UK Labour Party’s latest corporate mega-donor is a pro-Israel businessperson whose firm profiteered from South African apartheid.

A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.

Amid a crisis in recruitment, the U.S. military has found a new way of convincing a war-weary Generation Z to enlist: thirst traps.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved an anti-LGBTQ+ law that makes the “offense of homosexuality” punishable by life imprisonment and even death.

“NATO—the U.S.-dominated global war machine—whose policy is ‘full dominance spectrum,’ contrary to its claims, is not a defensive organization. Its purpose has been to act as an instrument for U.S. world domination and to prevent all challenges to U.S. hegemony.” —Mairead Maguire

CNN has joined the media chorus decrying the death of San Francisco with a one-hour special.

The G7 meeting reveals the gaps between the United States and its allies (Europe and Japan), but these differences of interest and opinion should not be overestimated.

The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.

A recent NBC News poll found that 70 percent of U.S. voters don’t want Joe Biden to recontest the presidency next year. Sixty percent feel likewise about Donald Trump.

When I sat down with Eric Huntley it was under the premise of interviewing him about the new community garden that he has established—along with filmmaker and organiser Sukant Chandan—in the London borough of Ealing, just minutes away from where he and his late-wife, Jessica Huntley, ran their bookshop and publishing house.

African Stream tells the story of Malcolm X’s political transformation that led to his assassination a few months after his return.

Atilio A. Boron: “I write these lines motivated by the pain caused to so many of us by the untimely physical demise of the Cuban intellectual, journalist, computer warrior and revolutionary Iroel Sánchez Espinosa.”

Mohammed is still grieving, and he cannot help thinking about what life would have been if Tamim was still alive, disassembling and reassembling his toys, his head filled with beautiful dreams.

The “ongoing Nakba” means that the Zionist drive to expel and eliminate the Palestinian people continues to this day. That is why Palestinian resistance to Zionism will remain as long as Zionism exists.

In his latest book, Ian Angus answers a question that apologists for the capitalist system would like to pretend does not exist.