What Are the Chances for Peace in Ukraine Right Now?
David Goeßmann: The talks a few weeks ago between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul came to nothing. What are the chances for peace? Anatol Lieven: I see no prospect for an end to the war at present....
View ArticleGrok Is the Latest in a Long Line of Chatbots To Go Full Nazi
Grok, the Artificial intelligence chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, recently gave itself a new name: MechaHitler. This came amid a spree of antisemitic comments by the chatbot on Musk’s X platform,...
View ArticleA New Far-Right American Party?
There are always worse political figures waiting in the wings. In Israel, for instance, Benjamin Netanyahu is a relative moderate compared to some members of his cabinet, like Finance Minister Bezalel...
View ArticleDecades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.
Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which was signed into law last week, has been described as a monstrous piece of legislation. In this exclusive interview for Truthout, world-renowned...
View ArticleResisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism
Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is...
View ArticleNo Ordinary Solidarity — Inside Chicago’s Hunger Strike For Gaza
Ash Bohrer sat in a wheelchair outside of the Chicago Federal Plaza, where they had been arrested for refusing to leave Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s office hours earlier — and where six Jewish Voice for...
View ArticleThe “Economy of Genocide” Report: A Reckoning Beyond Rhetoric
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine, stands as a testament to the notion of speaking truth to power. This “power” is not...
View ArticleStop Israel’s Dystopian “Humanitarian City” Plan—Before It’s Too Late
The Israeli government has just put forward one of the most brazenly genocidal schemes in modern memory—and unless we act immediately, the world will once again let it happen. As reported in Haaretz,...
View ArticleSocialism Is Good Politics
Zohran Mamdani was never supposed to win. Up against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – a well-funded candidate backed by real estate interests and AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee)...
View ArticleThe Quiet Violence Of Peace Deals
Peace deals are often announced with handshakes, photo ops, smiles, and celebratory headlines. They are moments of spectacle that are framed as victories of diplomacy and stability. While some peace...
View ArticleMaterialists Skewers the Dating Market — But Stops Too Short
Warning: This review contains spoilers. Celine Song’s newest film Materialists is a sleek and sexy piece of liberal feminist propaganda. Billed as a traditional romantic comedy, Materialists’ global...
View Article“Multipolarity? Maybe Sometime in the Future”
Although the global dominance of the US is crumbling and China is emerging as a rival, the unilateral world order remains intact, according to historian Vijay Prashad. In this interview, he explains...
View Article“Death to Fascism, Freedom to the People”: A Brief Hysteria of Our Time
Maja Bajević (b. 1967 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; lives and works in Paris, France) is an artist whose work incisively and wittily exposes the dualities of human behavior, particularly as they relate to...
View ArticleSoft Surveillance and Control: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Gradual...
Digital Surveillance and Control Digital corporations, in collaboration with major powers, actively monitor individuals’ movements through smart devices and various communication tools. Virtually all...
View ArticleAgainst The Fascistization Of Social Reproduction
Making time to write is welcome respite amid days marked by the intensification of fascist policies in the United States. To do so is to create spaces for other perspectives to circulate, to converse...
View ArticleFrom Aesopian Code to Open Ustaša Salutes: Croatia’s Shift to Nationalist...
The concert held by Croatian far-right pop singer Marko Perković – Thompson on July 5 at the Zagreb Hippodrome, which gathered approximately half a million people who, at the singer’s urging, chanted...
View ArticleTo the Field First, Comrades!
To the New York Times, Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent mayoral campaign was “built from nothing in a matter of months.” For the Washington Post, he was “a political upstart with fresh ideas coming out of...
View ArticleTo Bogotá
This week, more than 25 states from around the world will gather in Bogotá, Colombia, for the “Emergency Conference” to halt the Gaza genocide: the most ambitious multilateral response since Israel...
View ArticleApartheid Apartments: A Showroom for a Genocide We’re Still Furnishing
I arrived in Doncaster on one of those sticky, humid Fridays where everything feels like it’s wearing a damp jumper. My journey from Salford was a slow, passive-aggressive trudge through Britain’s...
View ArticleAcquainting Ourselves with Collapse
I graduated from Cairo University in 2008 — the year the global economy collapsed. Ironically, at the time, Egypt was boasting exceptionally high GDP growth rates led by a very progressive and...
View ArticleBringing Down a President
Critical Mass Imagine a cartoon: Unarmed protesters surround a palace. Inside, the royal mathematician frantically scribbles numbers. Nearby, an unhappy king slumps in his throne. His bags are packed....
View ArticleBetween Bombs and Pages: A Student’s Struggle in Gaza
I never imagined I would be forced to evacuate once again—especially not from Al-Mawasi, the area ironically designated as the “humanitarian zone.” At the time, I was preparing for my master’s thesis...
View ArticleReforming Global Financial Architecture is Critical for Gender Equality and...
While governments have committed to deliver on Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, inequalities, injustices and deadly divide between the Global North and Global South nations (and within rich and...
View ArticleNew Imperialist Powers, Capitalist Unipolarity and Proletarian...
Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran socialist activist and former vice-president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers). In the second part of this...
View ArticleCare Home Farm: Energy
An exploration of what independence from purchasing fossil fuels or electricity on the market would achieve, and how we could achieve it. Energy is such a massive topic to discuss, particularly in our...
View ArticleThe War on Inflation Is a Class War
In his May 2025 quarterly announcement, Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell warned of the rising risk of stagflation, a dreaded combination of high inflation and unemployment. Mainstream thinkers...
View ArticleEverything Old Is New Again
I didn’t want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich implications for the present moment to be found in the Declaration...
View ArticleElective Affinities of Executioners
“And now we ask: How can you eat, sleep, live? How guilty will you feel in your hearts if you do not move heaven and earth to come to our aid by the only means available to our people and as soon as...
View ArticleBeit Hanoun’s Fury: How Gaza’s Obliterated Northern Town Defies Israeli Victory
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu geared up for what was intended as a triumphant visit to Washington, commencing on Monday, July 7, 2025, Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades in Beit Hanoun were...
View ArticleThe Thirdworldization of the Global Working Class
The global conjuncture we face may appear as mindboggling yet one way to piece together this “big picture” is to take a local starting point and build up to the global. Let us hone in on and read...
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