Subjects Archives: Media

Last month in New York at separate forums, two senior Democrat figures–John Kerry and Hillary Clinton–pointed to what they saw as major problems: the First Amendment was ‘an obstacle to building consensus’, and the ‘narrative’ in the press needs to be (even more) ‘consistent’.

Whoever owns the narrative owns the world–and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as U.S. influence campaigns–or “perception management”.

Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.

The boundaries that separate higher education from “the rest” of the capitalist economy have eroded, imperfectly and unevenly but to a sufficient extent that the systemic force of financial markets dictates investment decisions and makes universities hard to distinguish from banks.

A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.

An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs.

The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers have deployed technology—even the mere idea of technology—to […]

The ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza as part of the so-called “Generals’ Plan” isn’t new, but the only thing standing in its way is the will of 200,000 Palestinians to stay in the north and refuse displacement.

A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang’s unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.

The Finns Party leader and current finance minister and deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, has previously made a litany of racist and violent statements against immigrants (e.g., using the Finnish equivalent of the ‘n-word’) (Teivainen, 2023).

Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro.

Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.

The evidence is undeniable, and the sourcing is as solid as it gets. There are mountains upon mountains of rock solid proof that Israeli forces routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian children in the head in Gaza.

Once the natural home of LGBT+ activists, Labour’s latest policy shifts show that instead of challenging the right-wing media’s anti-trans frenzy, the party is joining in.

Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine.

Acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates returned to nonfiction with his essay collection The Message, published on October 1, only to be met with patronizing dismissal and a whiff of racism on CBS Mornings

In an exclusive new documentary, Max Blumenthal rips the cover off the media deceptions and atrocity hoaxes Israel pushed after October 7 to create political space for its gruesome assault on the Gaza Strip.