Subjects Archives: Empire

Blue Bottle rakes in hundreds of billions a year. 

France has long sought to undermine African sovereignty, from the national liberation struggles of the twentieth century to today. But Africa would not tolerate French dominion then, nor will it now. This newsletter seeks to better understand the wave of coups in the Sahel and the fervour for African sovereignty in the region.

The Venezuelan government also condemned Israel’s latest assault on Gaza following Monday’s invasion of Rafah.

As U.S. lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a U.S. buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining.

The Groundwork Collaborative’s leader also said that “the Department of Justice should criminally prosecute Scott Sheffield,” the former Pioneer CEO whom the FTC blocked from joining ExxonMobil’s board.

“Israel’s fascist government is on the verge of bringing about a humanitarian disaster in Rafah,” Hadash and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) says in a common statement on Monday, May 6.

The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.

NewsClick and Prabir Purkyastha have not been involved in any terrorist act. Nor is there any evidence for the same. Prabir does not have links to any terrorist group.

Lean production, introduced in the 1980s from Japanese automakers, caught on in many U.S. industries.

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.

“This is the largest security assistance package that we’ve committed to date,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a Pentagon news conference.

CounterSpin interview with Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine.

The film Civil War addresses the paradox that the only way to stop polarisation is to take a side.

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

Barnard AAUP Chapter President Frederick Neuhouser said the vote calls for a change in course such as “implicitly a call for resignation.”

The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces events from April 1974.

Russia is extremely unlikely to fall a third time for a Biden/NATO request to ‘freeze’ military operations and negotiate again.

To understand the growing support within union ranks for an end to unconditional U.S. military and financial support for Israel in its conduct of a brutal war, it is important to look back at the legacy to which the UAW statements refer.

Echoing President Biden, Netanyahu labeled the demonstrations ‘antisemitic’.

CounterSpin interview with Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country.