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What Are Erik Prince’s Plans for the Second Trump Administration?
The deportation case of Maryland resident and Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia has drawn major attention to the practice of sending migrants to El Salvador for detention. One man looking to...
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Vietnam Celebrates Fifty Years of the End of Its Colonial Period
Fifty years ago, on 30 April 1975, the revolutionary forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front entered Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam. Two days earlier, in a...
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Sabotage Is On The Menu
It is the final week of February 2024, and the City of London, the capital’s ancient financial district, where corporations cluster like woodland trees, is teeming with climate activists. For three...
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How Medicaid Helps to Empower Americans and Build a Stronger Nation
Tonya Clark sat in her car along the side of the road—sobbing—after the doctor’s office called to say she had breast cancer. She worried about dying young, like her mother did. She agonized about her...
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Latin America’s Long Fight for Sovereignty Against the US
“An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me. It took me a second to realize he meant Brazil or Argentina, not the United States. Greg Grandin’s new book shows...
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Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many
On March 15, President Trump’s rendition of immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador stunned the world. They include 23 alleged members of MS-13 and 238 Venezuelans allegedly belonging to...
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Green Hydrogen, Old Colonialism
Europe’s quest for access to more green hydrogen regained momentum on January 21, 2025, when a Joint Declaration of Intent (JDoI) was signed in Rome by representatives from Germany, Algeria, Italy,...
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Western Sahara: Colonialism, Labor and Imperialist Complicity
In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution,...
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One Side Routinely Uses Human Shields in Gaza—But Not the Side That’s Usually...
Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 US/Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields. Protocol 1 of the Geneva...
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Why the Right Really Hates the Postal Service
President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States Postmaster General. David Steiner’s appointment as head of the public...
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Kashmir Must Be Free to Decide Its Own Future
A fragile peace was reached on May 10 between India and Pakistan after four tense days of escalation following India’s Operation Sindoor missile strikes, officially aimed at “terrorist infrastructure.”...
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Amid Starvation, People in Gaza Are Choosing Death at Home Over Displacement
Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid has entered its third month, pushed Gaza to the grip of starvation. Food supplies are dwindling rapidly, shops are stripped bare — even of the most basic...
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Syria, OPCW & Chemical Weapons — A Case Study of Manufacturing Consent to...
Dr. Piers Robinson, political scientist, media researcher, and co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, discusses the chemical weapons narrative in Syria and explains how corruption...
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Reflecting on the Hmong Experience 50 Years After the Secret War on Laos
When my son was born almost two years ago, we held a small hu plig or “soul-calling” ceremony to welcome his spirit to the world and into our family. The shaman my parents appointed for the ceremony...
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First Excavation of the Age of Apostasy
In this text, the hyper-contemporary age is situated between the end of World War II and the present day. As in previous ages, what one age leaves behind for the next is covered in dust and rubble, and...
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Is Modi’s Friend up to Mischief, or Is He Telling the Truth?
Why is it that to this minute there is no statement from the Indian prime minister contradicting the litany of perverse Trump talk on Kashmir? There is that old saying: “fools in high places are...
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Jews Don’t Do That
My mom’s brief career as an eight-year-old international jewel smuggler in 1929 began a journey that led her to reject Zionism in 1979. She had an eventful life, one that included moments of very...
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Beginning or End of the Tariff War Between the US and China?
The patience, strategic thinking, and chess-like approach of China’s leadership have once again proven their strength. Even one of the oldest weekly publications in the world, the British conservative...
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The Politics Of Class From Above
In Tanzania and beyond, political elites manage informal workers not by ignoring them—but by shaping their identities, dividing their ranks, and using class to tighten their hold on power. A friend...
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For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense
Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia’s war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current...
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