Subjects Archives: Movements

President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations–including his family business–at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees.

As a law firm under attack from the Trump Administration, you face an impossible choice.

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe.

The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism itself is not working.

Although the new administration is looking to refocus on the Asia-Pacific, the policy of expanded nuclear sharing makes sense, as it could ameliorate NATO’s growing conventional inferiority against the battle-hardened Russian military. For over 60 years, the United States has been implementing the so-called nuclear sharing policy with various NATO member states. One of the […]

CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.

Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.

The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.

Ten years after one student’s bold action a month earlier inspired protests which led to the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heike Becker recounts this historical occasion by linking this as well as subsequent and earlier protests to broader conversations about decolonization and concerns about racism, marginalization and inequality.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that “aid has dried up, and the floodgates of horror have re-opened” in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid and resumed its assault.

Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.

Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency.

Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a U.S. war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’

In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left?

The great institutions of liberal America are falling to Trump like dominoes, one by one.

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.

Trump is bringing the contradictions of Canadian climate policy clearly into view.

The situation must be stated with absolute clarity: The Trump administration is moving systematically and deliberately to establish a dictatorship.