Hyperimperialism, the Fall of Syria & Capitalist Gangsters
In this episode of MintCast, host Manar Adley speaks with historian, journalist, and author Vijay Prashad about the turmoil shaping 2025. From California’s wildfires and the failures of capitalism to...
View ArticleTrump’s Felony Conviction Appeal Will Show How Fully He’s Above the Law
Donald Trump has always maintained that the laws don’t apply to him. But he failed to convince New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to delay sentencing him this month following the May 2024 jury...
View ArticleAmerica’s Academic Gulag (w/MIT Student Activists)
You can’t just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it’s serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of...
View ArticleBill Targeting Nonprofits Likely to Be Revived by New Congress
A controversial bill, described by critics as a calculated strike against pro-Palestinian groups, cleared the House of Representatives in November but ultimately stalled in the Senate as the session...
View ArticleDestroyed Assange Files: Why Judge’s Rebuke Against Crown Prosecution Service...
A British judge issued an unusually critical rebuke against the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales (CPS) for its handling of freedom of information requests related to Sweden’s failed...
View ArticleAfter Five Days That Changed Its Face, Where Is Lebanon Headed?
The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and the appointment of a new prime minister on Monday 13, constitute a major...
View ArticleThe United States Makes a Play for Rojava
In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of northeastern Syria. Now that Rojava is being attacked by...
View ArticleA Ceasefire is Not an End
The Genocide of the Palestinian people began 76 years ago. What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the Genocide. Gaza is destroyed. 92% of its housing has gone. Its...
View Article‘National Scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza Cover-Up
The BBC is failing to report the various ways in which the UK government has supported Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Declassified’s new analysis finds. Our research into the BBC’s written outputs since...
View ArticleEroding Cynicism Today
A plausible case can be made that in 2025 there has never before been a greater need for consciousness raising and engagement on the part of social movements among broader and broader swaths of the...
View ArticleHow Europe sees “Donald the Terrible”
Most people perceive Donald Trump as a terrible individual, a terrible politician, and a terrible president. From a European standpoint, Donald Trump might indeed look like an all-new “Donald the...
View ArticleKeir Starmer’s Support For The Gaza Ceasefire Is Riddled With Lies
Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza. How is a ‘sovereign and viable Palestinian state’, or a ‘better future’, going to emerge out of ruins on that scale? There are so many lies,...
View ArticleWant to Defend Immigrant Workers in Your Contract? Here Are Some Suggestions.
The following language was compiled from a series of unions and labor activists. It is intended as a resource for workers looking to include pro-immigrant provisions in their collective bargaining...
View ArticleCopped Out: Global Warming and Global Markets
As is now something of an annual ritual, last month’s COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ended on a rather shabby note. Actually, one can describe its beginning the same way. Ilham Aliyev, the...
View ArticleTime to Reverse Course and Change the Conversation from Doomsday to Peace Day
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb, established a Doomsday Clock, in 1947, to illustrate...
View ArticleThe Migrant Workers At The Forefront Of Los Angeles Wildfire Relief Efforts
Immigrant day laborers, organized with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, are on the front lines of the humanitarian efforts amid the devastating fires and are responding to anti-migrant...
View ArticleAnti-Immigrant Legislation Doesn’t Serve Anyone But Prison Contractors
You’re reading the words of a formerly undocumented immigrant. When I fled El Salvador four decades ago, I was 12 years old and alone. I was escaping the country’s civil war, where U.S.-backed death...
View ArticleBeyond the Dark Dreams of a Totalitarian Future
The real scandal lies not just in Trump’s madness but in the cowardice, corruption, and complicity of those who enable him—the press, politicians, and tech moguls alike. Trump and the Specter of...
View ArticleTrump 2.0: Yanis Varoufakis and Katie Halper on Gaza, Europe, and What’s Next
As Donald Trump assumes the presidency, the world is bracing for shifts in international relations and policy. From Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the war in Ukraine, the US’ strategic rivalry with...
View ArticleBudgeting By and For the People
Melina Abdullah, Ph.D., is a fixture among racial justice activists in Los Angeles, leading Black Lives Matter LA (BLMLA)’s protests and actions from the campus of California State University, Los...
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