The International Brigades are acclaimed for bravery. But British citizens who fight in Syria are damned. If only they did it for the money

British spies have developed “dirty tricks”

A normal country would be concerned by how it is viewed in the world

During the last eight years under Ben Bernanke’s tutelage, the Fed performed its primary function and bailed out the banking system

History reveals that in seeking social change, you lose, you lose, you lose, you win

In the six pages that HRW dedicates to Venezuela in its World Report 2014, released this week, it manages to tell at least 30 serious lies, distortions, and omissions

So what’s next? Is there a world, a life, an America after capitalism?

In December 2013 David Marty did an extensive interview with Michael Albert. We present it in nine parts – of which this is the seventh

The Venezuelan government has tightened access to its preferential currency exchange rate, and says it’s considering changes to laws prohibiting the parallel currency market

Do you want your children or your grandchildren to have an environment in which they can have a decent life?

The inside story of how the retail giant has managed to remain union free

Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business

A Glimpse into the Zapatista Movement, Two Decades Later

Another look at diplomacy picks up pace and an agreement draws nearer

If you step back and look at the bigger picture, it’s not hard to see that Silicon Valley runs on for-profit surveillance, and that it dwarfs anything being run by the NSA

Speculators do not make money from the means of production. Rather, they ignore or rewrite the law to steal from everyone, including their shareholders

The NSA has the ability to intercept computers and other electronic accessories purchased online in order to secretly insert spyware

More than a million unemployed Americans are about to get the cruelest of Christmas “gifts.” They’re about to have their unemployment benefits cut off