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UNESCO awards World Press Freedom prize to Palestinian journalists
The Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinian people are rewarded with the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom prize.
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Gov’t delivers 4.9M homes, unveils women-led housing project
Created by Hugo Chávez, the Great Housing Mission has reached its 13th anniversary providing housing to working-class people.
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Pro-Israel groups vs. student democracy at McGill
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.
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How the New York Times fights America’s wars
The New York Times is not an unbiased fount of information, but a sophisticated ideological weapon. Our goal is to unmask the Times and expose the paper for what it is: a tool of empire encased in a liberal veneer.
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TikTok ban: How American civil liberties are under attack
Prohibition on the popular video-sharing app would suppress narratives from marginalised communities, including pro-Palestine voices.
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Open science and agroecology: A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Núñez
An independent researcher argues that Venezuela is undergoing an agroecological transition.
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AI chatbots: Hype meets reality
The chatbot revolution began in 2022 with OpenAI’s introduction of ChatGPT.
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Barnard AAUP chapter unanimously issues vote of ‘no confidence’ in Rosenbury
Barnard AAUP Chapter President Frederick Neuhouser said the vote calls for a change in course such as “implicitly a call for resignation.”
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The integral crisis in the U.S. and the purity fetish
The United States tells the world and its citizens that it is the greatest country on the planet, where freedom and democracy reign, and where there is an American dream that gives everyone the opportunity to live flourishing “middle class” lives with white-fenced houses and two cars. For the American working masses, however, as the great critical comedian George Carlin noted, “it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
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AI countergovernance
In the last year, the rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion has led to countless public discussions about the ethics and regulation of AI.
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A Declaration by the American Association of University Professors of Barnard and Columbia
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest and their arrest by the New York City Police Department.
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Faulty assurances: The Judicial torture of Assange continues
Only this month, the near comatose U.S. President, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was “considering” the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange be concluded.
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Joseph Massad responds to fabrications and lies about him in Congress
On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode in efforts by members of Congress to shut down criticism of Israel on campuses by falsely accusing students, professors and administrators of anti-Semitism.
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The billionaire ‘nepo baby’ boom
In every country and culture, capitalism depends on an ideological mirage of equal opportunity and reward for effort, to conceal, as much as possible, the reality of brutal exploitation and inequality.
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Pope Francis has abandoned transgender Catholics
In a recent official Declaration on Human Dignity, Dignitas Infinita, the Pope has endorsed a document that effectively outlaws sex change for transgender Catholics. The Declaration is both harsh and unrelenting in its tone, dismissive of new science and judgemental of those Catholics who in good faith make life choices contrary to the edicts of the Church. Nothing new here, but just another slap in the face for people who seek to live their God given lives as authentically and honestly as possible.
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Matter in motion: Dialectical philosophy’s role in science
In this second article in a series on philosophy and science, we take a look at dialectics and its relevance to understanding change in the natural world.
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Materialism matters: The role of philosophy in science
In this first article in a series on philosophy and science, we take a look at materialism and why it is fundamental to science.
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Brazil warns of neo-fascism upsurge and holds Elon Musk responsible
Disinformation on social networks takes advantage of the vulnerable, while extremists advocate a “neo-fascism, a primitive, conservative, and authoritarian nationalism”.
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A striking contrast
Reichstag Fire was a crucial event in the conversion of Germany from a liberal democracy into a fascist dictatorship in 1933.
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Third Edition of Venezuela’s Progressive Theater Festival
The ten-day event featured more than 150 Venezuelan theater groups and invited companies from 20 other countries.