Subjects Archives: Inequality

Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist.

The fate of billions whom the U.S. dominates and oppresses is effectively exchanged for a few possible reforms in domestic policies that affect parts of middle-class America.

Over 160 media workers have been killed and 60 detained as the methodical destruction of the brutalized Strip continues.

AI is creating a bonanza for tech companies and is being cast as a cleaner way to wage war, but the human cost is devastating.

In Nigeria, 29 children aged 14 to 17 could face the death penalty after being arraigned in Abuja on Nov. 1 with 76 others for participating in protests against the country’s severe cost-of-living crisis. 

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell has described the killing of children as another “dark chapter” in the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza.

The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal unconscious to silence them.

The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many.

On Friday, April 29, 2022, USLBA hosted a meeting with U.S. officials and U.S. corporate executives to discuss the implementation of the Global Fragility Act in Libya to “prevent conflict and promote stability”. Photo: The U.S.-Libya Business Association

With a constant stream of media exposing genocidal war in Palestine, child labor in the Congo, and Indigenous struggles in South America, neoliberalism’s colonial nature is clearer than ever. Now is the time to return to the works of Fanon and explore a radically different future liberated from coloniality, Ken Olende explores.

Once again, the United States and Israel voted against the lifting of arbitrary sanctions against the Cuban people.

Israel has launched a round of airstrikes on Iran which the western news media are falling all over themselves to falsely frame as “retaliatory” strikes against an unprovoked missile attack by Iran. 

BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.

In a malicious ploy, a hospital in Honolulu locked out its nurses after a one-day strike—and not just for a couple days, as hospitals often do, but indefinitely. The message was, you can come back only when you accept our demands.

Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than the poorest people produce in a lifetime.

The media hawks are flying high, pushing out bellicose rhetoric on the op-ed pages that seems calculated to whip the public into a war-ready frenzy.

For 24 days, the Israeli military siege has combined an intense bombing campaign with a ground incursion.

The ongoing U.S./Israeli genocide has diverted attention away from other crimes. The electricity crisis in Cuba is but one example of how the U.S. determination to dominate has created suffering around the world.

A year after the beginning of the genocide against Gaza, Peter Mertens takes stock, reflecting on Hayat, born amidst the bombs, watermelons, Israel’s status as an international pariah, language, student occupations, and labor union actions.

The UN special rapporteur on health accused world leaders of bankruptcy for failing to stop the genocide in Gaza.