Subjects Archives: Media

For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause.

Phil Donahue passed away Sunday night, after a long illness. He was beloved by those who knew him and by many who didn’t.

The six justices who voted to criminalize the homeless have a combined net worth of $54 million. 

For the merchants of war, the collective pain and misery of whole nations is dwarfed by the lucrative deals of billions of dollars generated from weapons sales.

Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.

The world’s largest cannabis producer aims to encourage legal cultivation of the plant and export it for industrial or medical purposes

Our country must move beyond symbolic representations of women like Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati, and instead offer genuine respect and equality.

Diane Ravitch, author of “Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools”, has dug deep to uncover who the leaders of the nationwide public school privatization movement are and assembled a list that includes: Jeff Bezos, the Koch Brothers, the Walton Family, Bill Gates, Betsy DeVos, Michael Bloomberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, Eli Broad, Reed Hastings, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Cybersecurity has become a central element in Venezuela, in a context where computer attacks have not ceased since the presidential elections.

U.S. Big Tech corporations are like the feudal landlords of medieval Europe. These Silicon Valley monopolies own the digital land that the global economy is built on, and are charging higher and higher rents to use their privatized infrastructure.

Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.

The call for the nationwide vigil to “reclaim the night” was given by the left groups following the rape and murder of a medical staff on duty in Kolkata last week.

Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.

Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation.

Gus Speth – “My family and I spent 25 years in Washington DC. They were good years, and every morning I began with coffee and The Washington Post. The newspaper was a wonderful companion—and reliably progressive. But there is something going on there now on the editorial board that I find, well, weird.”

The following text navigates through the trans health articles and books published between 1886 and 1966 which appear to have had the greatest influence on the writing of “The Transsexual Phenomenon”, ultimately posing the question: how did we get here?

“All state platforms have been attacked in multiple ways,” said Minister Jiménez when presenting the report. She highlighted that among the affected systems, the National Placement System (SNI) received four million attacks per hour. The SNI is the placement platform for new students in Venezuelan universities.

The hero of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games isn’t Tom Cruise, Armand Duplantis or Novak Djokovic. The hero is Cuban and his name is Mijaín Lopez.

Disqualified after becoming first Indian women wrestler to enter the finals in Olympics, Phogat along with her colleagues have been waging a protracted battle against the sexual harassment in country’s wrestling federation

Through X and SpaceX (particularly Starlink,) Elon Musk is an important figure in understanding digital/settler-colonialism.