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The ‘Principal Threat’: Time to Talk about the Palestinian Class Struggle
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo On Monday, October 31, Palestinians in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Occupied East Jerusalem, observed a general strike. The strike was declared to be part of the community’s […]
Giants: The Global Power Elite – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Giants: The Global Power Elite. Peter Phillips. Seven Stories Press, New York, 2018.) Abby Martin’s interview with Peter Phillips was the instigator for reading Peter Phililips’ now slightly outdated but highly valuable […]
How A Boy Called Christmas Converted Me to the Politics of Greed
By Jonathan Cook This was the Christmas my young daughter finally cornered me into admitting that Father Christmas doesn’t exist. I felt a small pang of regret that she had taken another step towards graduating […]
Climate Change: Beyond the Tipping Point
By Jim Miles Twenty years and more ago climate talk concerned long-term global warming effects not really occurring until the mid-twenty-first century at earliest with most problems occurring toward the end of the century. I […]
AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Gown is Designer Protest Meant to Dull Class Struggle
By Jonathan Cook The left is currently dividing very publicly over a viral clip on social media of AOC – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – arriving on Monday night at an exclusive gala event in New York […]
Where Best to Ride out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream
By Jonathan Cook Having written posts on this blog for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of […]
Greed and Consumption: Why the World is Burning
By Ramzy Baroud Rome is scorching hot. This beautiful city is becoming unbearable for other reasons, too. Though every corner of the beaming metropolis is a monument to historical grandeur, from the Colosseum in […]
On the Perils of Normalizing the Virus
By Benay Blend A fault is a fracture or zone of fracture between two blocks of rock. During an earthquake, the rock on one side of the fault suddenly slips making a big move all […]
What is It About Us? Are We Homicidal by Nature?
By Jim Miles I have just watched Michael Moore’s latest Rumble podcast in which he asks the question “What is it about us?” while referencing the Columbine massacre and relating it to the current set […]
Why Politicians and Doctors Keep Ignoring the Medical Research on Vitamin D and Covid
By Jonathan Cook It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted year, during which politicians and many […]
The Great Divider: COVID-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality
By Ramzy Baroud The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’ should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions and […]
Why is the World Going to Hell? Netflix’s The Social Dilemma Tells Only Half the Story
By Jonathan Cook If you’re wondering what the hell is going on right now – the “Why is the world turning to shit?” thought – you may find Netflix’s new documentary The Social Dilemma a […]
The Co-optation of the Black And Palestinian Movements for Liberation
By Benay Blend In “Black-Outs, Black Lives Matter, and Black Power,” Erica Caines explains how “symbolic gestures of solidarity” have co-opted the power of the movement into “feel-good moments” for those who participate and shaming […]
As US Protests Show, the Challenge is How to Rise above the Violence Inherent in State Power
By Jonathan Cook Here is one thing I can write with an unusual degree of certainty and confidence: Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin would not have been charged with the (third-degree) murder of George Floyd had […]
Our Leaders are Terrified. Not of the Virus – of Us
By Jonathan Cook You can almost smell the fear-laden sweat oozing from the pores of television broadcasts and social media posts as it finally dawns on our political and media establishments what the coronavirus actually […]