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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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How capitalism—not a few bad actors—destroyed the Internet
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.
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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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Even after a century, water is still the marker of India’s caste society
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
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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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Imperialism is the arsonist: Marxism’s contribution to ecological literatures and struggles
Marxism’s contributions to ecological literature and struggles is a rich and contradictory field of discussion. Marxism in diverse ways has fed into environmental struggles and broader ecological politics.
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Ukraine uses NATO ammunition in attacks on nuclear power station
Representatives of the civil-military administration of the Zaporozhie region denounced today that Ukrainian troops use artillery with NATO ammunition in attacks on the Energodar nuclear power plant.
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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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The sword of Bolivar is wielded again by the people of Latin America
On August 7, 2022, Gustavo Petro and his running mate, Francia Márquez, were inaugurated as the President and Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia.
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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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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.
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A Unity of Opposites: The Dengist and the Red Guard
What would Losurdo and Badiou say about each other’s views on Mao? Losurdo would likely consider Badiou to be infected with Western Marxist abstractions and anarchism in his celebration of mass rebellion and disregard for the needs of realism. By contrast, Badiou would no doubt consider Losurdo to be a Stalinist cop, with his defense of order, normalcy, and the bureaucratic party-state.
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When people want housing in India, they build it: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2022)
It all started with a survey. In April 2022, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), went door to door in the town of Warangal in Telangana state. The party was already aware of challenges in the community but wanted to collect data before working on a plan of action.
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Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
The appalling attack on him. Those who more than 30 years ago put a fatwa on his head after he wrote the novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made this assault possible. They deserve contempt. I wish him a speedy recovery.
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The Supreme Court: working hard to make a business-friendly America
President Calvin Coolidge, in a January 1925 speech to newspaper editors, asserted that “the chief business of the American people is business.” The claim, although far from true, did capture the short-lived success of business leaders in structuring the country’s social institutions for the benefit of the wealthy.
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Poland says Ukraine must recognise Bandera’s genocide during WWII
Ukraine must acknowledge the genocide of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in World War II, a Polish official says.
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Lawfare as an imperialist weapon: the case of the Venezuelan plane
The subject relayed in the title is becoming more and more complicated. The Argentinian “justice” system, through the actions of the federal judge of Lomas de Zamora, Federico Villena, and Federal Attorney Cecilia Incardona, is determined to retain the EMTRASUR plane and its crew in Argentina even at the price of violating the fundamentals of law (such as the presumption of innocence) to comply with the seizure order issued by U.S. authorities.
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Amnesty International finishes discrediting itself by calling for an audit of its report on Ukrainian war crimes
On 4 August 2022, Amnesty International published a report denouncing the tactics of the Ukrainian army that endangered civilians, in other words, Ukrainian war crimes (even if AI does not dare to call a spade a spade)