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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
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A journalist bothers the Indian far-right
Prabir Purkayastha created a vibrant publication in Delhi, connected to social movements and successful. He´s now imprisoned at 78 under an infamous law. The episode reveals much about the nature, methods, and vulnerabilities of Narendra Modi´s regime.
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The death of Amr
Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.
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Central bank independence as class war strategy
Insulated from popular discontent, independent central banks have free reign to undermine workers’ rights and further the neoliberal agenda, argues John Clarke.
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U.S. workers forced to bail out Intel, a top 100 company
President Biden announced the grant, part of the massive $280 billion CHIPS Act, on March 20 in Arizona.
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The Sahel’s ‘Axis of Resistance’
The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism–ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path.
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I forgot to die
Thinking through the social reproduction of Palestinian life
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Nato’s insatiable expansionism: The bombing of Yugoslavia 25 years on
Nato’s war against Yugoslavia in 1999 was a prelude to the war in Ukraine, says Dragan Plavšić.
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How CIA and MI6 created ISIS
Contrary to their mainstream portrayal, as inspired purely by religious fundamentalism, Daesh are primarily guns for hire.
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Al-Shifa hospital in ruins
Israel has turned the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip into a charred wasteland, a slaughterhouse, a cemetery. During its two-week siege on al-Shifa Hospital, Israel destroyed “all buildings and departments without exception, in a clear crime that shames humanity,” Gaza’s government media office stated. The army withdrew at dawn on Monday, after facing […]
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‘Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World’ – book review
Naomi Klein’s exploration of the spread of conspiracy theory and the ‘other Naomi’ is baggy but contains useful insights, argues Lindsey German.
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War on Gaza: We were lied into genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how
Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October.
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Most Americans believe U.S. will be in world war within next decade
A growing divide in the world economy is further adding to global tensions. A rising number of countries, including Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria, Yemen, and Zimbabwe, face significant U.S. sanctions. Economic warfare has led to a growing number of countries forming blocs outside of Washington’s control.
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At the UN it is a rogue U.S. against the rest of the world
Ted Snider asks: “Is America a Rogue Superpower?”
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The National fight for rent control
Rent control has been around for as long as the landlord. Since antiquity it has served as a tool for limiting land speculation, especially during economic shocks. In Rome, beginning in 40 B.C.E., in the wake of civil war, a debt crisis, and political turmoil, the government instituted a temporary rent cap and a cancellation of rent for one year.
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Imagine if Russia or China did the things Israel is doing in Gaza
It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now.
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America’s latest move to block China’s economic rise
At present Chinese stocks are depressed so several analysts see them as good value on fundamentals such as share price to earnings and return on equity ratios.
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737 Max 9 blowout: Boeing gambles with human lives for profit
On January 6, 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft were grounded after a door plug blew from one of the planes’ fuselages over Oregon during an Alaska Airlines flight.
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Institutionalized corruption: India’s electoral bonds scandal exposes Modi’s money laundering machine
On February 15, 2024, a five-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India declared in a unanimous verdict that the electoral bond scheme of anonymous corporate donations to political parties was unconstitutional.
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The U.S. is witnessing a considerable growth in strike activity
Cornell University’s Labour Action Tracker reports have noted a 77 per cent growth in strikes since 2021.