Resisting Amazon’s Digital Genocide Machine
This year’s Make Amazon Pay protest is a rallying cry against Amazon’s many wrongs: its enabling of genocide through Project Nimbus, its exploitative labour practices, its systematic tax evasion, its...
View ArticleIn Choosing to Ban UNRWA, Israel Has Entrenched Itself as a Pariah State
Introduction In choosing to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Israel has permanently branded itself as a pariah state. However, what is...
View ArticleDemocrats Should Stop Mocking Trump’s Ground Game and Start Learning From It
Since campaign season began, experts have assured us that Donald Trump had “no ground game”, a phrase that generally refers to a campaign’s effort to mobilize voters through local outreach offices,...
View ArticleThe Real Deep State: A Nexus of Corporate, Military, and Government Power Elite
For years, President-elect Donald Trump has portrayed himself as the central victim of the “deep state” — a phrase that now conjures up right-wing paranoia and anti-government fearmongering. But well...
View ArticleHow the Strategy of Fighting to the Last Ukrainian Was Sold to the Public as...
For almost three years, NATO countries have boycotted diplomatic contacts with Russia, even as hundreds of thousands of men have died on the battlefield. The decision by diplomats to reject diplomacy...
View ArticleTurning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way
Listen to an audio version of this story below. The highway running north toward the Russian border is long and straight, a black line streaking across a snowy flatness. A clutch of pine trees, a row...
View Article‘Genocide’ vs. ‘Bigger Genocide’ in Gaza: Time to Decolonize Our Minds
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well,” Frantz Fanon wrote in ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. What the iconic...
View ArticleIndigenous Leader Nemonte Nenquimo on Fight to Defend Ecuador’s Ban on Future...
In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a referendum last year banning future oil extraction...
View ArticleEquality as a Process: Reimagining Power, Justice, and Social Structure
We are living under a system that carries with it sometimes crushing forms of coercion and oppression; very painful inequalities; hosts of useless sufferings. ~Simone Weil[1] The question of equality...
View ArticleIsrael Is Hurtling into the Political Abyss
Since 7 October 2023, the lives not only of Israelis and Palestinians, but indeed of everyone living in the region have been radically transformed for the worst. The brutal war in Gaza, now expanding...
View ArticleThe Working Class Leaves the Party
In the wake of the election, I’ve been thinking of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist comedy The Exterminating Angel. It stars a group of socialites dining together at the mansion of an upper- class couple...
View Article“A Time Before Fear”: Notes From a Black Panther Who Spent 41 Years Behind Bars
Among those familiar with his life story, the name Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is synonymous with freedom. His childhood and early adulthood were spent on the streets of Philadelphia, where he transformed...
View ArticleBiden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
The Biden administration is withholding federal funding from a climate justice group that supports a ceasefire in Gaza. The Climate Justice Alliance said it met all administrative deadlines and...
View ArticleThe Reproductive Justice Movement Must Be Expansive Under a Second Trump Term
After his uncle was first elected president of the United States, Fred C. Trump III wanted to use the access he had to the White House for something positive, he explains in his new memoir, All in the...
View ArticleTrump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda Sounds Like a Petrostate Plan to Some
As President-elect Donald Trump puts together a team that will ramp up fossil fuel production in a country that is already pumping out more crude oil than any nation in history, critics are beginning...
View ArticleBored of Suppression
Across Africa, censorship bodies—relics of colonial-era laws—restrict artistic expression and suppress dissent, stifling the transformative potential of art to challenge injustice and inspire...
View ArticleCommemorating November 29, 1943: The Founding of a New Yugoslavia
A few days ago, the Serbian government announced its decision to demolish the iconic Yugoslavia Hotel, a landmark badly damaged during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign, to make way for a luxury...
View ArticleTo End the Fossil Fuel Era, Activists in London Target the Insurance Industry
As a group of nearly five hundred marched through Leadenhall Marketin London’s financial district wearing wetsuits, goggles, flippers and life vests, a few voices in the crowd began to sing to the tune...
View ArticleFighting for Freedom in Wallmapu
The autonomous Mapuche community of Lof Rofue lies at the end of a tree-lined gravel road off the side of the highway, a ten-minute bus ride from the town of Temuco, the capital of the Araucanía region...
View ArticleWhat International Solidarity Means to Palestinian Women
Nov. 29 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, marked by the United Nations since 1977. But how can solidarity be effectively shown in the context of ongoing, escalating...
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