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Climate activists shuts down Aberdeen incinerator choking working-class kids
A £150 million waste-to-energy plant sited just 300 yards from a primary school and burning a staggering 150,000 tonnes of unrecycleable waste a year was brought to a standstill on Saturday as Climate Camp Scotland and local campaigners stood together on the picket line.
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170 years of U.S. aggression against Nicaragua
On July 19 Nicaragua will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.
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Unprecedented inequality in the ‘billionaire raj’
The ‘billionaire raj’ of the reform period has emerged to be far more unequal than the ‘British Raj’.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets
Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.
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The Shift: Columbia suspends deans for ‘antisemitic’ text messages
News items often seem to slip through the cracks at this point in the summer, and the media’s current focus on the Democratic Ticket has understandably dominated domestic headlines.
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Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians or more killed in Gaza
By denying the world access to the true death toll in Gaza, Israel is acting, once again, as a complete rogue state.
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From Auschwitz to Gaza
If one reads the entire translated transcribed text of Himmler’s speech carefully or listens to it, the thought might suddenly occur to one that history is repeating itself in today’s political arenas.
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Cities must be adapted for climate change
In the past few years, whole towns have been wiped out by fire and flood, suburbs have been inundated by floodwaters or storm surges in Sydney and Melbourne, and extreme heat is putting more people in hospitals.
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Understanding bodily autonomy through triple oppression
The concepts of self-determination sovereignty extend far beyond the individual empowerment of self-advocacy, and encompass collective liberation and self-determination. Claudia Jones’ work emphasizes the interconnectedness of struggles and the importance of sovereignty for Black women, which requires building collective power and creating liberated spaces where colonized communities can exercise autonomy and self-governance.
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Opposing the creation of NATO to wage war with Russia: W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1949 speech to Congress
In 1949, W.E.B. Du Bois testified before Congress to protest against a bill that would fund the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7. But in the U.S. media: silence
Israel ordered the “Hannibal Directive” on October 7 by ordering the killing of captive Israeli soldiers and civilians. But the U.S. media continues to hide the truth.
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U.S.-made missile suddenly ‘transformed’ into a ‘Russian’ one and killed 40 civilians
On July 8, the Russian military launched large-scale strikes on various targets across Ukraine.
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Inside China-focused Congressional Hearings, panic, paranoia, and hypocrisy reign
On June 26th, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sat down for a Congressional Hearing titled, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare.” This was one of many Congressional hearings aimed at tackling the “China threat.”
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Righteous student activism and evolving anti-Palestinian reprisal in Canada
Specious claims of antisemitism and incivility merely distract from the genocide before our eyes.
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Canada’s whitewashing of Africa’s most ruthless regime
Rever: We should not be engaging with, or buttressing a nation that has inflicted so much harm on innocent people.
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‘It’s time to take Medicare Advantage off the market’
CounterSpin interview with David Himmelstein on privatized Medicare.
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To best understand inequality, think class, not generation
Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story.
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Reimagining lost visual archives of Black and Indigenous resistance
How can we trace the wounds of colonialism in the art historical record?
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Oklahoma’s Bible requirement is a part of a broader Rightwing assault
The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.
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Evaluating Roger Casement
PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a valuable contribution to a wider understanding of the remarkable human rights activist turned Irish freedom fighter.