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New realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
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.
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The Ayacucho Commune: Fisherfolk and their cooperative practices (Part II)
Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.
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‘Banality of evil’: Artist turns Gaza settler dream into disturbing installation
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.
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Israel tightens its grip on Jenin and the wider West Bank
Gazans sift through 50 million tons of rubble, finding 200 bodies.
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Did Trump ‘fix’ TikTok? Users report censorship after outage
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.!”
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Trump reverses sanctions on Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank in first act as president
The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb. 1, 2024, which authorized the imposition of certain sanctions “on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in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.”
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Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses
A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t have any money to purchase coal.
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Bat shit insane religious fanaticism is a requirement for U.S. empire managers
The world is ruled by religious fanatics with nukes.
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Why Greenland? How Trump learned to love the bomb
As Donald Trump takes office, he has revived one of his most audacious ideas: acquiring Greenland.
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TikTok ban paves way for suppressing speech in anti-China crusade
On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court launched a sweeping, unanimous assault on the First Amendment.
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Donald Trump is the empire unmasked
The hood stays popped open the entire time, showing the whole world how the imperial sausage gets made.
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The Ayacucho Commune: A fishing community on the Orinoco (Part I)
As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.
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Jihadism, capitalism and neo-Ottomanism
— “About this sudden change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister, said he had convinced Russia and Iran in Doha not to intervene on the side of the Syrian government, otherwise it would have been a bloodbath. It means that militarily the Russian and Iranian forces would have to face huge weaponry and mercenaries supplied by forces outside the country. Which ones?”
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Corporations and billionaires are bankrolling Trump’s inauguration
Their message is clear: When Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, his job is to work for them.
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Canada and Ukraine: The suppression of a shameful history
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of the Nazis.
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All wars end in negotiations. So will the war in Ukraine: The Third Newsletter (2025)
Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet.
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Statement by the Communist Party of Israel on the ceasefire agreement in Gaza
Communist Party of Israel & Hadash: The agreement and ceasefire are important and welcomed, but it cannot be sufficient.
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America preying on our universities
We should talk about a malignant influence on Australia’s security which has long been harboured unquestioned–so-called independent think tanks.
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Trump’s Texas tycoons
Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.
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Alba Movements and the Bolivarian Revolution
With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.