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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.
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India’s COVID-19 crisis: A call for people’s unity
At the height of India’s COVID-19 crisis, some Chinese netizens saw retribution for the Modi government’s aggressive posture towards China. In this essay, Chinese blogger 红色卫士 (Red Defender) instead insists on internationalist solidarity and a distinction between the right-wing Modi government and the working class and low-caste peoples who suffer the most under his regime.
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Did Marx ignore race in his critique of political economy?
Joining us on AIAC Talk to debate if the third world still needs Marx are Annie Olaloku-Teriba and Zeyad el Nabolsy.
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New investigation reveals role of Israeli operatives in Colombia’s “political genocide”
Known as the “Red Dance,” the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union remains one of the most extreme cases of political violence in Latin America and new evidence suggests that it was concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history.
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‘Why won’t she just leave him?’ domestic violence and lone parents
Why won’t she just leave him? The answer is she can’t.
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Understanding Peru’s elections from the Peasant Patrols to Fujimorism
500 years of colonial history, 200 years of life as a republic, and 40 years of experience of the rural and urban peasant patrols movement, to understand a subject and a process that come from afar.
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The next trans griot
Few publications covered Black trans communities. After the death of Monica Roberts, TransGriot’s founder, the people she empowered grieve and begin to chart a new era.
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Why do White Republicans oppose Black Lives Matter?
Look what they’re watching.
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This time may be different: on the UN commission of inquiry investigating violations in the occupied Palestinian territory
Thanks to a rapidly changing political context the new UN Human Rights Council commission announced on May 27th may be different from those in the past–this one may actually help hold Israel accountable.
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Two agonizing years of devastation
Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, first recorded in India end January 2020, this Modi government’s preoccupation had never been on combating the pandemic in right earnest and saving people’s lives but on continuing to relentlessly pursue the unfolding of the RSS project.
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Freedom Rider: Biden breaks his promises
Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office.
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Western media, even Bellingcat, failed to save the reputation of neo-Nazi soldier Protasevich
Since the arrest of Roman Protasevich in Minsk after the emergency landing of the Ryanair flight he was on, a real battle for his reputation has been launched between Belarus and the West.
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Birds of a Fascist feather: why Israel is aiding Colombia’s crackdown on protesters
Photos circulating on social media show Colombian government forces using Israeli weapons against protestors and Israeli-made Sand Cat armored vehicles patrolling the streets of Colombian cities. Alan Macleod investigates the growing ties between the unlikely allies.
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U.S. civil society stands up against anti-China bill as Senate moves closer to passing it
A bipartisan vote closed debate on the omnibus U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), which many argue includes provisions that could escalate trade disputes between the U.S. and China and could further rising anti-Asian racism.
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U.S. moves against Ethiopia and Eritrea: Atrocities alleged, sanctions imposed
Historian Jeff Pearce, @jeffpropulsion, responding to the atrocity reports of Alula Solomon, @Alula_Solomon, CEO, Tigrai Media House
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Genocide In Canada: mass grave of Indian children found
A Catholic Church-run residential school for indigenous children was an extermination camp. It operated until 1978.
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Facts are stubborn things: ‘Exterminate All The Brutes’ review
Raoul Peck’s four-part documentary film about colonialism, slavery and genocide is a powerful and thorough exposition of the crimes of colonialism
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The Western’s long glorification of oppression
A quintessentially American, and Texan, film genre, the Western has mistold Texas history since its beginnings.
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After inner Mongolia Bitcoin ban, Sichuan mulls mining shutdown
Will the province, rich in hydropower, change its welcoming stance toward cryptocurrencies?
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How ‘Justice for George Floyd!’ shook the ruling class to the core
On May 25, 2020, 44-year-old white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old unarmed Black man George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sadistically murdering him.