Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in…
We may be seeing an uptick in news on Haiti in the American mainstream media in the coming months. We may even…
Power Relations Inscribed in Narratives Among the concepts the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, developed is symbolic violence. It is an extension of…
Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of…
By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and…
I invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are excerpts from Phyllis…
Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers on April 1 as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” that “happens in…
Things seem to be different this time around. The current year, 2024, is unlike the year 1934 when Hitler solidified his fascist…
Capitalism, the plastic bucket we are all crammed in for (give or take) 77.5 years, incentivizes the Seven Deadly Sins of the…
In a first, Parliament spent a full day debating a motion on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The March 18 opposition day motion presented by the…
I have suffered from persistent fatigue in recent months. Fatigue… the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate 3.3 million Americans…
On March 24, the Russian authorities presented to the media four individuals accused of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which…
If humanity was obliged to wreck the planet and accelerate climate change, it would invent war. Since every aspect of military activity…
Although most states have held their presidential primaries as Joe Biden and Donald Trump have clinched the nomination of their respective parties,…
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that…
According to a recent United Nations report there are more armed conflicts throughout the world today than during the 2nd World War. These hostilities don’t…
Matthew Wilson teaches at Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea University) where he lectures on People, Organisation and Business. He is an active participant in the UK…
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs…
Each year Americans forfeit a sizable slice of their income to the United States Treasury to fund the government. Tax Day is…
Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of…
In my first couple of years of progressive activism in the late 60’s, many of those I worked with who were also…
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not…
The last hundred years have been years of intense conflict that have resulted in countless wars, in addition to the two world…
Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting…
Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting the…
This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502 percent over the past year, leaving many…
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share…
“Instead of seizing the chance to close schools… communities across the country are pushing their districts to think about schools differently and…
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has worsened due to IMF deals, causing social unrest, unemployment, poverty, and food insecurity, and posing significant challenges…
On March 19, 2024, the head of France’s ground forces, General Pierre Schill, published an article in the newspaper, Le Monde, with a blunt…
An international campaign for the freeing from prison of well-known Russian intellectual, writer and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky, along with all other…
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone…
Economic Model-Two Conditions Our economic model generates and conflates two conditions that burden working people. The first is “economic adversity.” The second…
NATO expansion, Western leaders vaunting wars for values, international judges ruling on accusations of genocide, calls to defend civilisation against barbarism —…
In the next few days, after this story gets published, I will either save a pregnant woman and her child’s life, or…
It seems that there has never been a better time than now to buy an electric vehicle in the United States, especially…
Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in today’s world than . . . ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and…
All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. (William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916) His utterance was matter of fact, almost devoid…
March is Women’s History Month. A suitable time to celebrate Tish Murtha. March also marks the eleventh anniversary of her death. March…
When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive…
Kim Scipes reviews Jason Hickel’s Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. Looking through the lens of climate change, Jason…
If we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing…
The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation. Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge…
Predatory Capitalism Triumphs Over People And Community There is a large sign over the Delaware River Bridge connecting New Jersey’s state capital…
There is a dialectical relation between colonisation and decolonisation. This dialectical relation is dyadic and triadic. Decolonisation as a process of the…
In 1925 the African American and Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen posed the following significant question, what is Africa to me? Cullen…
20 March 2024Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement The poor and marginalised have not seen any gains in almost 30 years of democracy. The…
People’s choice of words can be revealing.That’s certainly the case with respect to one of Donald Trump’s favorite slogans, “America First.” In…
Donkeys have been our steadfast companions for centuries, valued for their strength, hardiness, and work ethic. Yet, for many, a donkey’s value…
Another family died yesterday. A dozen families die everyday. They usually manage to pull a few bodies out of the rubble. The…
