Subjects Archives: Strategy

Diane Ravitch, author of “Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools”, has dug deep to uncover who the leaders of the nationwide public school privatization movement are and assembled a list that includes: Jeff Bezos, the Koch Brothers, the Walton Family, Bill Gates, Betsy DeVos, Michael Bloomberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, Eli Broad, Reed Hastings, and the Chamber of Commerce.

The French economist J B Say had believed that there could never be a problem of aggregate demand in any economy, that whatever was produced was ipso facto demanded.

Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.

On Friday, ALBA Movements, an organization bringing together grassroots movements from 25 countries in the Americas, issued a statement rejecting the claims made by the presidents of Colombia and Brazil, who proposed the formation of a cohabitation government in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected in the July 28 elections. 

Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by U.S. President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar.

Gus Speth – “My family and I spent 25 years in Washington DC. They were good years, and every morning I began with coffee and The Washington Post. The newspaper was a wonderful companion—and reliably progressive. But there is something going on there now on the editorial board that I find, well, weird.”

In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

The hero of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games isn’t Tom Cruise, Armand Duplantis or Novak Djokovic. The hero is Cuban and his name is Mijaín Lopez.

The curtain has come down on the abortive colour revolution in Thailand with the country’s Constitutional Court ordering the dissolution on Wednesday of the anti-establishment opposition party Move Forward, widely regarded as a U.S. proxy. 

Earlier reports said the U.S. was going to sanction the unit, Netzah Yehuda, but Israeli officials lobbied against the plan.

Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the U.S. and China in the Asia-Pacific region.

Through X and SpaceX (particularly Starlink,) Elon Musk is an important figure in understanding digital/settler-colonialism.

NATO’s growing militarism doesn’t just risk widening war, but is deeply implicated in the mounting climate catastrophe, argues Nandita Lal.

There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a ‘stand-alone’ event.

The U.S. and UK ambassadors to Japan will not attend the Nagasaki atomic bomb victim memorial on August 9 due to the Nagasaki administration’s decision not to invite the Israeli envoy.

Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap.

Venezuela’s opposition yet again cries fraud in the 28 July presidential but fails to provide evidence. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Chavistas, their frustrations grounded in the understanding that the US-hybrid war is the root of the crisis, take to the streets and chant no volverán: they [the oligarchy] will not return.

Vijay Prashad reflects on the last several weeks in Bangladesh of protests and convulsions, which culminated in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

James Baldwin was born one hundred years ago in Harlem, New York, 2 August 1924.

What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political prisoners?