Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well. Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that...
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Populism Was Born From a Rural-Urban Alliance
In 1880s Texas, farmers and factory workers discovered they had the same enemy: corporate capitalists. Their alliance birthed American populism and offers lessons for today's working class divided by false urban-rural antagonisms. An illustration of the citizens’...
Los BRICS se reúnen sin Putin ni Xi Jinping, pese a las amenazas de Trump
Álvaro Verzi Rangel La décimo séptima cumbre de jefes de Estado y de gobierno del BRICS, un grupo formado en 2009 por Brasil, Rusia, India y China, al que luego se unió Sudáfrica tiene lugar este año en Rio de Janeiro después de la ampliación aprobada en octubre...
We Will Never Forget that the BBC Has Helped to Enable a genocide
A damning report has now confirmed what many of us already knew: that the BBC’s reporting of Israel’s war on Gaza is far from impartial. The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) analysed the BBC’s coverage of the 12 months following Hamas’ one-day attack on 7 October...
The “Magabundance” Agenda Is Creating Strange Bedfellows
Supply-side progressivism is forging unexpected alliances between populist Democrats, business-friendly centrists, and MAGA Republicans around militarized growth. The result is a post-neoliberal politics that accommodates authoritarian populism. (Daniel Mekis /...
Analyzing Xi’s Absence From The Latest BRICS Summit
This could stimulate US-Brazilian ties, comparatively reduce China’s role in Brazil’s balancing act if India’s role therein soon becomes more significant, and fuel Western media speculation about China’s commitment to the group. Chinese President Xi Jinping declined...
Reinventing Algerian Identity: Neither Uniform nor Divided
In the face of cultural, political, and identity-based tensions, Algeria is being called to redefine its national foundation. Between its diverse heritage and democratic aspirations, a new form of Algerian identity may emerge; one that embraces inclusiveness, respects...
Seven Things Tom Cotton Needs to Learn About China
US Senator Tom Cotton recently published a book titled Seven Things You Can’t Say About China. I decided to put myself through the aggravated torture of reading it, just to see what he had to say, and now mourn hours of life that I’ll never get back. By Megan Russell...
Dangerous Books?
The world of literature has turned purple, not knowing which color, blue or red, fits the current dilemma that’s causing serious students of the art to tear their hair out. The age of social media has opened the door to a cascade of new challenges to literary freedom...
Con el corazón “tocado”, Pedro Sánchez anuncia 13 medidas anticorrupción en el Congreso Federal del PSOE
El PSOE celebra su Comité Federal este fin de semana en uno de los momentos más delicados y comprometidos de sus últimos años a causa de la presunta trama de corrupción que azota al partido. Temas: Actualidad, PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, CorrupciónLeer artículo...
I Remember It, Well….
Fame is fleeting. We may be a Facebook celebrity today with ‘likes’ in the six digits, only to find as time goes by that the balance is shifting daily as we fade into the oblivion from which we emerged. Pretty much the same phenomenon is discernible in regard to the...
Yanis Varoufakis on the Legacy of Greece’s Oxi Referendum
Ten years ago today, the people of Greece voted decisively in a referendum to reject an EU austerity program. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis tells us how it happened and of the betrayal that followed. Yanis Varoufakis, Greece former finance minister,...