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Outrage as COVAX reports blocked vaccine payments, U.S. sanctions blamed
Venezuela’s efforts at the Copa America football tournament have also been derailed after 15 players and staffers caught the virus, prompting calls for an investigation.
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Latin America: in a permanent state of coup
In Latin America, coups d’état are always underway. When a government goes beyond being merely procedurally democratic and advances towards social justice, the always latent coup mechanisms are accelerated.
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Secretary general: NATO won’t “mirror” Russia, will exponentially outspend, surround it with battle groups
Just hours ahead of the NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, the military bloc’s secretary general, Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg, told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble that NATO will continue to expand its military capabilities but will not “mirror” its arch-adversary Russia.
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Learning from history: community-run child-care centers during World War II
We face many big challenges. And we will need strong, bold policies to meaningfully address them. Solving our child-care crisis is one of those challenges, and a study of World War II government efforts to ensure accessible and affordable high-quality child care points the way to the kind of bold action we need.
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‘Forget the Alamo’ unravels a Texas history made of myths, or rather, lies
Three Texan authors build on a long tradition of dissent from patriotic accounts of Texas history in a new book on the racism baked into our story of the Alamo.
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The great “awokening” and ruling class uses for racial grievance discourse
The Black political class is wedded to the centrist Democrats for its “fatback and biscuits” patronage.
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Freedom Rider: The truth about defunding police
“Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human needs. One year ago, thousands of people engaged in protest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer. A persistent protest […]
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The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of the weapon: What knowledge do we need for revolution against capitalism
According to the World Bank, “The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year, with the total rising to as many as 150 million by 2021, depending on the severity of the economic contraction”.
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‘Little more than a PR gimmick’: Critics say G7 vaccine donation pledges won’t cut it
Public health campaigners estimate that promised donations from rich countries would be enough to cover just 11% of the world’s unvaccinated population.
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Tulsa: ‘A cover-up happens because the powers that be are implicated’
CounterSpin interview with Joseph Torres on media and the Tulsa massacre.
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‘Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 Immediately’: Nobel Laureates, EU MPs Write to Indian Authorities
The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.
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Every region of the World is the worst affected
The impact of this food price rise will grievously hit developing countries, most of whom are major importers of food staples.
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Decolonization and communism
While the turn towards analyzing ongoing settler-colonialism has finally reached the mainstream of North American political discussions, there is still a lack of popular understanding of the issues involved.
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How billion-dollar foundations fund NGOs to manipulate U.S. foreign policy: A case study from Nicaragua
U.S. foreign policy is increasingly promoted by billionaire-funded foundations. The neoliberal era has created individuals with incredible wealth who, through “philanthropy,” flex their influence and feel good at the same time.
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Inequalities are shaping how we’re fighting the Pandemic — and how we’ll remember it
COVID-19 infections in most countries have been hugely underestimated—not least because rich countries bought almost all the tests.
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Paltry international support for spending needs sets South further back
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and financing government efforts are widening the North-South gap and other inequalities once again.
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Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism
The book suggests a number of important modifications to the critique of global capitalism and the debates about how to solve the ecological crisis: First, it links production to consumption.
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Book Review: ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture’
Surrounded by assasination plots and having been deceived from all sides, Louverture “was extremely reluctant to communicate his intentions even to his leading military officers, or to share power with them in any meaningful way.”
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Protestors are blocking Israeli ships from offloading in Oakland – updated
Bay Area activists are blocking an Israeli cargo ship from offloading in Oakland, CA in solidarity with Palestine.
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‘The Modis, the Trumps, the Bolsonaros come out of the wreckage of neoliberal policy’
CounterSpin interview with Vijay Prashad and India, Covid and Modi.