Ecocide and Elections in Bolivia
What’s behind the massive fires and widespread deforestation that plague Bolivia? Bolivians have been discussing this very question for the past few years. In August, Bolivians will go do the polls,...
View ArticleTrump’s Imperialism Atop Western Warmongering
Conflicts across the world’s regions experienced a further surge in 2024, according to data provided by Armed Conflict Locations & Event Data (ACLED)—an independent, international non-profit...
View ArticleCan Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
With Donald Trump set to take office after a fear-mongering campaign that reignited concerns about his desire to become a dictator, a reasonable question comes up: Can nonviolent struggle defeat a...
View Article‘Time is Water’: How Indigenous Leaders are Fighting to Save the Amazon
YURIMAGUAS, Peru – The Sacred Headwaters Alliance brings together 30 indigenous peoples of the upper Amazon in Ecuador and Peru, who are self-organising to defend a forest devastated by unchecked...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Justice Systems: Only Trump Gets Convicted of 34 Felonies and...
Convicted of 34 felony counts in his hush money case, Donald Trump could have faced severe consequences. Each of the felony counts of falsifying business records was punishable by up to four years in...
View ArticleUN Experts Slam US Bill Sanctioning ICC: “Blatant Violation of Human Rights”
Agroup of UN human rights experts is urging the U.S. Senate to block a bill that seeks to punish the International Criminal Court (ICC) and people affiliated with it after the body issued arrest...
View ArticleManufacturing Consent For Regime Change In Syria
Monitoring corporate media performance for 25 years – week after week, war after war – has done little to diminish our dismay at the robotic automaticity of ‘mainstream’ enthusiasm for US-authored...
View ArticleTo Desegregate, Ride the Bus
Rosa Parks took a seat to take a stand. These days, prejudice pushes people into bus seats, not out of them. The descendants of Europeans wouldn’t even think of letting go of their cars, for car...
View ArticleOf The Plutocrats, By The Plutocrats, And For The Plutocrats
“Every morning,” the billionaire Marc Andreessen smiled a few weeks after Donald Trump’s re-election this past November, “I wake up happier than the day before.” The stoked Andreessen, with Trump’s...
View ArticleClimate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires. His Old...
At least 10 people have died in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires as firefighters continue to battle multiple infernos in the area. Thousands of homes and other structures have been destroyed, and...
View ArticleJudge Threatens To Break The UK’s Wall Of Secrecy Around Assange’s Persecution
After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange....
View ArticleThe Biden Administration’s False History of Ceasefire Negotiations
Over the past months, outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken has given several interviews in which he repeatedly claims that Hamas, rather than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been...
View ArticleHow Mass Deportation Harms All Working People
Donald Trump vowed to begin deporting undocumented migrants “on day one” of his administration, and day one is rapidly approaching. If Trump’s working-class voters believed that deporting 13.3...
View ArticleIsrael Destroyed Gaza ‘For Generations To Come’ And The World Stayed Silent
The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip was...
View ArticleCarbon Markets and the New Scramble for African Land
In 2023, the global carbon offset market reached $2 billion, with projections suggesting a hundredfold increase by 2050. This explosive projected growth, touted as a solution to the climate crisis,...
View ArticleSyria’s “Human Debris”
In the fall of 1997, I took part in my first protest—a student demonstration in Beirut. At the time, Lebanon was controlled by the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, father of the recently ousted...
View Article‘The Struggle For Boris Kagarlitsky’s Liberation Is An Integral Part Of The...
[Editor’s note: The following is an edited transcript of the speech and responses to questions given by Ilya Budraitskis on the “The situation for the left in Russia today” panel at the “ Boris...
View Article“In Talk There Was A Ceasefire. In Practice We Witnessed Nothing Like This” –...
As all eyes were on the Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led forces sweeping across Syria with Assad crumbling, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an attack on North and East Syria...
View ArticleStudy Finds Gaza Death Toll Likely 40 Percent Higher Than Official Count
The death toll of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is likely far higher than reported by health officials, by a margin of tens of thousands of deaths, researchers from a top research university have found in...
View Article2024 Will Be Remembered As The Year Israel’s Global Legitimacy Fully Unraveled
Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in the eyes of the global public. It has achieved mixed success on...
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