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Co-opting the revolutionary history of MLK
I often think about how one of the most revolutionary black men in history can be completely altered; completely reconstructed; undergoing a kind of magical jolly negro transmorgification?
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Trump’s idling plane got more TV coverage than Biden cutting healthcare for 15 million
Last spring, the Biden administration and a Democratic House approved a policy that would kick 15 million people off of Medicaid.
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Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights!
The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.
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Washington says “journalism is not a crime” while working to criminalize journalism
After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the U.S.-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let’s do it anyway; the barrel’s right here, and I really hate these particular fish.
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Thirtieth anniversary of the brutal murder of Chris Hani
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the brutal murder of the South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary, Comrade Thembisile Martin “Chris” Hani.
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Biden administration refuses to condemn Israel storming Al-Aqsa mosque, blocks Security Council statement
The Biden State Department refused to condemn Israel’s storming of Al-Aqsa mosque, and blocked a U.N. Security Council statement criticizing the raids.
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Resisting Eugenics and Racial Capitalism: Passover and the Tradition of Shifra and Puah
This world needs revolutionaries who refuse orders to kill and exploit. Two midwives named Shifra and Puah were such revolutionaries. When a racist ruler asked them to limit the reproduction of slaves—out of fear of a slave uprising—they disobeyed.
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Women hold up 76.2% of the sky: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2023)
The idea of ‘equal pay for equal work’ was established in the ILO’s Equal Remuneration Convention (1951) in recognition of the fact that women had always worked in industrial factories, increasingly so during the Second World War.
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Israeli spyware NSO still hides among the walls of the White House
The Biden administration’s efforts to completely eliminate the NSO Israeli spyware are faced with what remains behind closed doors.
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A Singular Reality, or Not
John Bellamy Foster, John Ross, Deborah Veneziale, and Vijay Prashad, Washington’s New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023), 108 pages, $15. The “singular reality” (my phrase) on display here is the imagined reality in the mind’s eye of Beltline/Pentagon global strategists. Few readers will be surprised at the cravings of […]
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Inside the Israeli panopticon
Israeli surveillance is used to crush Palestinian resistance and their model is being exported across the globe.
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Why Zelensky will NOT take back Crimea
Any attempt by a Ukrainian government to “take back” Crimea would be met with firm opposition and resistance from the people who live there.
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TikTok on trial: The latest front in the U.S. tech war on China
On March 23, CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee addressing concerns over the popular social media app’s data collection practices and parent company ByteDance’s alleged links to the Chinese government.
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The Second Cold War is more dangerous than the first
Americans have to ask themselves: Is it worth risking nuclear war—and an apocalyptic nuclear winter—for no loftier purpose than to maintain their country’s violently enforced grasp of overwhelming global power?
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My feminism is Trans inclusive
Attacks against Trans women are attacks against the women’s movement and the fight for better equality and justice.
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Covering (up) antiwar protest in U.S. media
March 18 DC peace march almost completely blacked out in U.S. corporate media.
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Austrian lawmakers walk out during Zelensky address to parliament
The politicians’ move comes in opposition to Zelensky’s speech which “violated Austria’s principle of neutrality.”
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Post-Political Post-Aesthetics
The universal premises of culture and politics have been subject to criticism from the moment that Enlightenment theories emerged. In postmodern theory, radical skepticism replaces judgement and makes universal speculation seem like either an absurd game or a violent imposition.
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The Indigenous People, again
It is not strange that the US, Canada, and Australia do not sympathize with the Palestinians because they themselves were settlers too who wiped out whole cultures and confiscated their land.
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Trans rights are under attack
There is a dangerous escalation of transphobia happening right now. The political right in the United States and the United Kingdom are rolling back civil rights for trans people specifically and LGBT people more broadly. This is being driven by an amalgamation of mainstream conservative parties, the far right, Christian fundamentalists and right-wing shock jocks and tabloids.