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Jacobin
Changing Channels
The Suez Canal is a symbol of Arab nationalism. It’s also a damn good source of national income. A bullet-riddled window of the Port Said Lighthouse amid the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, January 1957. In the water below, a Norwegian tanker exits the Suez Canal...
Seymour Hersh: The US Destroyed the Nord Stream Pipeline
Last week, renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh published an article claiming that the US was responsible for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline transporting natural gas to Germany from Russia. He spoke to Jacobin about the allegations. Gas emanates...
The Left Needs Its Own Vision for a United Ireland
Although it is not yet a topic of everyday debate on either side of the Irish border, the idea of Irish reunification is gaining a strange kind of momentum. Books on the question seem to be printed on a monthly basis, all registering stern words of warning about the...
It Looks Like a Strippers’ Union Is About to Become a Reality
Dancers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in Los Angeles have recently received positive signs from the National Labor Relations Board, which bodes well for their contested union drive. If all goes as expected, they will be the only unionized strippers in the...
The Market Will Never Solve the Climate Crisis
When oil prices plummeted during the pandemic, fossil fuel companies made vague efforts to invest in clean energy. Now pulling in bumper profits, Big Oil is discarding those initiatives to maintain their business model: capital over climate. An Exxon gas station in...
Socialism Is Love
It’s hard to spin Valentine’s Day as a revolutionary holiday — so let’s keep this simple. Do better than chocolate and flowers today, and you’ll help your favorite magazine keep going. New subscribers will start with our new issue, “Nationalism,” which will be out...
Knock at the Cabin Summons a Half-Baked Apocalypse
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest low-budget horror movie, Knock at the Cabin, is so overstuffed with exposition that even the end of the world is a letdown. Still from Knock at the Cabin. (Universal Pictures) There’s another M. Night Shyamalan horror movie out, an...
Policymakers Backed by Big Oil Are Trying to Rebrand Natural Gas as Clean Energy
The oil and gas industry and its political allies are promoting the use of natural gas as a climate-friendly alternative to other harmful energy sources, ignoring its negative impacts on both the planet and public health. Ohio governor Mike DeWine signed legislation...
We Can’t Understand Islamophobia Without Recognizing Its Roots in Imperialism
Anti-Muslim racism has become a central theme for right-wing demagogues in Europe and the US. Islamophobia isn’t just a bad set of ideas: it’s a product of imperialism and the destructive wars waged by the US and its allies in the Middle East. A US soldier at the...
Turkey Doesn’t Need F-16s. It Needs Humanitarian Aid.
Less than a week after two earthquakes killed 35,000 people, the Turkish government resumed bombing Kurdish forces in Syria. Now President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is spending $20 billion on F-16 jets — money that would be better spent on earthquake aid. Turkish soldiers...
Lost in Translation
Santa Is a Pervert and your other favorite Hollywood classics. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.