In Brazil, the jailing of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served a far-right takeover. The Turkish government is following the same playbook as it stifles the opposition.The Turkish government is making parallel use of repression and legal tactics to...
Aijaz Ahmad belonged to a generation of South Asian left intellectuals who came of age in the heyday of anti-colonial revolution. He was an uncompromising opponent of the Hindutva right that betrayed the heritage of India’s struggle against colonialism.Aijaz Ahmad’s...
Bryan Johnson’s sexless brand of “wellness vampirism” is the perfect metaphor for Silicon Valley. It’s a utopian promise of a limitless future disguising a brutal, extractive reality that leaves us all drained.Bryan Johnson has spent millions trying to become immortal...
Financial fraud has exploded in the past few years, with consumers reporting more than $12.5 billion in losses in 2024. President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda isn’t helping.ACH fraud is becoming ever more common due to an increase in digital...
Before Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro, corporations filed lawsuits against Venezuela seeking damages tied to state nationalization, international sanctions, and political instability. A Trump-installed government could tilt the courts in their...
Jessica Mitford was born the child of aristocrats and the sister of fascists who celebrated the rise of Adolf Hitler. But she betrayed her class to become a communist, embedding herself in the life of the working class and railing against the powerful.Jessica Mitford...
Nothing about Donald Trump’s brazenly illegal actions against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro suggests that the American ruling class has learned any lessons from US imperial overreach and failure in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Venezuela itself.The problem for US empire...
The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a crude act of Trumpian aggression. Yet it also illustrates the US leadership’s weakness, as it moves to lock down control of the Western Hemisphere.Donald Trump used to pose as an antiwar president. Yet as the...
A former Venezuelan diplomat tells Jacobin how the state, military, and popular forces are responding to US military aggression — and what comes next.Supporters of Nicolás Maduro and the late Hugo Chávez hold posters with their images after explosions and low-flying...
The attack on Venezuela signals a new phase of US power in Latin America — one defined by coercion, intimidation, and open-ended intervention.The move against Venezuela signals a decisive turn in US foreign policy in the Americas. Force and coercion are becoming...
Venezuela is only the opening salvo in a blatantly imperial project aimed at crushing the Latin American left.The Trump administration didn’t even bother to manufacture consent for regime change in Venezuela. They're just pursuing it — and openly admitting it is about...
Fear of killer robots has obscured a deeper shift in warfare: The fetish of automation masks the commodification of combat judgment. Corporate software reshapes war while preserving just enough procedural “human control” to deflect responsibility. The problem with...