We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Princeton University Press, 2023). Building on the...
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Trump pledges $20B to Argentina, threatens to cut aid if country votes left
The Milei-Trump meeting secured a USD 20 billion financial bailout for Argentina’s unstable economy. Trump made future aid conditional on Milei winning the upcoming elections.
The AI bubble and the U.S. economy
So AI technology could eventually deliver higher productivity growth if it manages to shed human labour sufficiently.
Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg
Israel is so evil it’s actually hard to wrap your mind around it.
Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts French Ex-President Sarkozy
The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent development, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy,...
Fascism is a Thoroughly Modern Phenomenon
Unless there is going beyond neo-liberalism, which is necessary for overcoming the crisis it has caused, even a political defeat of the fascistic elements in elections, will only cause a temporary setback to them; they will come back to power again, as Donald Trump...
Venezuela conducts drills as Trump authorizes CIA operations, sends B-52 Bombers near Caracas
President Nicolás Maduro has hailed the Operation Independence 200 military drill.
Trump’s Portland lies euphemized as ‘dueling versions of reality’
When corporate media refuse to call a lie a lie, and to stand unequivocally on the side of reality, they enable the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism.
Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
Venezuela embodies resistance and regional integration. Argentina, under Milei, epitomizes the collapse into “narco-capitalism,” social devastation, and foreign subjection.
‘It’s a privilege to encourage our generation like the musicians that came before us: Nina Simone, Max Roach, Charles Mingus’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to U.S. pianist Paul Cornish.
It is Israel that must be deradicalized, not Palestine
Calls to “deradicalize” Palestinians ignore Israel’s embrace of fascism.
High Court weighs decision that could silence Black voters Nationwide
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case that could decide the future of voting rights in America.