Subjects Archives: Movements

The buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we’re also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say “Well actually China is actually quite bad actually” in response.

2025 Doomsday Clock Statement

Trump’s “border czar” has spent the past several years promoting racist conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists. His mass deportation agenda is one of the Administration’s top priorities.

The U.S. president suggests that Jordan and Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza.

Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’—the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God.

Ocean temperatures were rising at a rate of 0.06 °C per decade, whereas now they are increasing by 0.27 °C every ten years.

A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.

The Bob Dylan biopic is finely acted and captures the aspects of the musician impressively, but not the full political power of the songs, finds Jonathan Maunders.

China’s technological progress is far more vulnerable to a more “friendly” US. rather than a more “hostile” one.

If anyone still doubts that the United States is the center of an empire, the show put on by the New York tycoon dispels all doubts.

Human societies are setting themselves on a collision course with climate-induced catastrophes. Lithium-ion batteries will soon be facing competition. How to deal with x and the conflicts it creates?

The ceasefire is publicized as a demonstration of Trump’s and U.S. leverage with respect to Israel when it actively seeks results rather than merely wants to make a rhetorical impression, but there is more to this ceasefire that is immediately apparent.

Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.

Gil Mualem-Doron’s fake ads for villas in Gaza are actually based on a real Israeli estate agent advertising property on Gaza’s beachfront.

Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.

When the platform came back online, U.S. users were greeted with a message crediting its return to Trump: “As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!”

The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.

The New Deal federal art projects never received the popular support Roosevelt himself enjoyed as president.

In this republished essay from 2017, John Bellamy Foster discusses how U.S. neofascism in certain ways resembles the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb. 1, 2024, which authorized the imposition of certain sanctions “on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”