Natural resources and strategic alliances are important to understanding why Venezuela is in the eye of the storm.
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Private data tells the story Washington won’t: Jobs are disappearing
With the federal government shutdown grinding on, the nation’s economic picture is collapsing into silence and uncertainty.
Inside America’s Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report
It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.
The Nobel Prize goes to… war on Venezuela
Awarded by the Nobel Committee for advancing a "peaceful transition," U.S. govt-sponsored politician Maria Corina Machado is a veteran coup leader who's called for Israel to invade Venezuela
DDR: What was the German Democratic Republic?
On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic was founded.
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution. According...
When Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “peace” has lost its meaning
Far from a symbol of peace, the article exposes Machado's history of supporting coups, sanctions, and calls for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.
What we know about the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and what comes next
The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas includes halting military actions, an Israeli withdrawal, increased humanitarian aid, and a prisoner swap. But it doesn't guarantee an end to the war or that Israel won't resume the genocide.
Trump turns the military inward, and America confronts its oldest fear
Its origin was poisoned by the retreat from Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, but its meaning grew larger. It became a vow that liberty cannot live where rifles enforce the law of civilians.
The Bretton Woods Twins and the Trump Tariffs: Implications for the Global South
If tariffs don’t reduce imports to significantly neutralise the fall in U.S. exports, quantitative restrictions on imports may be resorted to.
Socialism or Barbarism
Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute—and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.
Digital Literacy and Civics Education are Essential Tools in Era of Disinformation and Surveillance Capitalism
Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital...