Trump Has Ignited a Wave of Economic Defiance in Canada
The relationship between Canada and the United States, once a symbol of economic interdependence and diplomatic cooperation, now stands at a crossroads. The recent imposition of sweeping 25 percent...
View ArticleWorkers Mobilize Against Trump’s Moves to Privatize Postal Service
In its continued attack against social services and workers, the Trump administration has set its sights on the United States Postal Service (USPS). Amid growing threats to the USPS, workers organized...
View ArticleIn Turkey, a Mass Movement Builds Against Erdogan’s Power Grab
Uraz Aydin answers questions from Antoine Larrache about the mobilization currently building in Turkey after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, who is seen as Erdogan’s main rival in the race for the...
View ArticleHow the U.S. Is Corrupting South Korea’s Institutions and Driving It to War
K.J. Noh discusses how South Korea figures into U.S. plans for confrontation and potential war with China, as well as the latest in the erosion of South Korean democratic institutions and the U.S....
View ArticleReports of “Much Worse Than Ever Before” in Gaza as Israel Weighs Broader...
We go to Gaza for a report on the brutal conditions of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians from Abubaker Abed, a 22-year-old journalist who has recently been diagnosed with malnutrition as a result of...
View ArticleThe Last Chapter of the Genocide
This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly...
View ArticleColumbia University’s Profile in Cowardice Is Nothing New
A crucial requirement for a dictatorship to take hold is widespread acquiescence. That is being put to test as the United States slides toward right-wing dictatorship with a real possibility of going...
View ArticleThe ‘Disappearing’ War Chat
In his article about being invited by U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to a Signal chat with the U.S. secretaries of state, defense and treasury, the U.S. vice president and the directors of...
View ArticleTrump Officials’ Errant Signal Messages Reveal the Cynical and Shallow...
The high-level Trump administration Signal message thread on bombing Yemen on which someone on the staff of National Security Adviser Michael Waltz included The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief Jeffrey...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Euro Area Citizens Should Be Terrified By the ECB’s...
Imagine a technology that could facilitate an unprecedented expansion of totalitarian power in the hands of the ECB and EU Commission. What could possibly go wrong? If you are a citizen of one of the...
View ArticleWhat Does the Ukrainian Working Class Want?
As the U.S. and Russia discuss a possible ceasefire, what role do the Ukrainian people—especially the working class—have in shaping the outcome? Paul Jay speaks with Ukrainian political scientist Denys...
View ArticleSelective Outrage: Britain’s Silence On The Jailing Of Imran Khan
The United Kingdom prides itself on being a champion of democracy and human rights, frequently condemning political repression and imprisonment in authoritarian states such as China, Iran, Russia and...
View ArticleThis Is a Time for Re-creation and Reimagining, Not for Tepid Nostalgia
George Packer recently wrote an Atlantic piece that cleverly situated the Trump regime within a familiar Orwellian framework. According to Packer, Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson and other slavish Trump...
View ArticleFeminist mobilizations weave intersectional resistance in Chile
At 8:30 in the morning feminists and activists gathered to offer seeds, sopaipillas (fried flour dough), and fruit to a tree in Cerro Huelén, a hill in the center of Santiago de Chile. Their offerings...
View ArticleThe Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on...
The American political landscape has been rattled by revelations that the Trump administration discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen in a chat group containing a journalist from The...
View ArticleOpen Universities: Between Radical Promise And Market Reality
Open universities have long symbolised a radical departure from the exclusivity of conventional universities. Conceived as institutions of access, intellectual emancipation, and social transformation,...
View ArticleAbducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror
Introduction The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is met not with debate but with brute...
View ArticleCan We Exit from a World of Debt?
In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is important to understand that this money owed to foreign creditors is equivalent to 99%...
View ArticleArab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture the full picture. The idea...
View ArticleThe Case Against European Rearmament
Inducting Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its pre-2014 borders has been the only strategic aim EU leaders have allowed themselves to contemplate since Russia’s invasion three years...
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