China is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African countries, after already cancelling $3.4 billion and restructuring $15 billion of debt from 2000-2019. Beijing pledged more infrastructure projects and offered favorable trade deals in a “win-win” model of...
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Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism
Nicolas Graham’s book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke
U.S. taunts Russia to escalate in Ukraine
In military terms, the crude, locally assembled drone dropping a country-made bomb or two on unguarded sites in Crimea are at best pin pricks in the big picture of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. But it can be profoundly consequential in certain other...
Ukraine uses NATO ammunition in attacks on nuclear power station
Representatives of the civil-military administration of the Zaporozhie region denounced today that Ukrainian troops use artillery with NATO ammunition in attacks on the Energodar nuclear power plant.
India’s Prabhat Patnaik: Fascism Is Rooted in the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Interview)
Renowned Indian economist and political analyst Prabhat Patnaik spoke with Bengali newspaper Ganashakti about the present state of India’s economy and politics, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence from British colonial rule.
India’s Prabhat Patnaik: Fascism Is Rooted in the Crisis of Neoliberalism (Interview)
Renowned Indian economist and political analyst Prabhat Patnaik spoke with Bengali newspaper Ganashakti about the present state of India’s economy and politics, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence from British colonial rule.
Four years later, parents of 40 school bus children killed in US-supplied bomb await accountability
Parents were angry at the Biden administration's resumption of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia on August 2, one week ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Yemen school bus children attack on August 9.
Inside Nicaragua’s free socialized health-care system
An inside look at the free universal health-care system created by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which has saved countless lives.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Harvard: Why the Crew, and not the Captain, Will Save America
“You fucked up; you trusted us.”
There are ‘no real consequences’ for toxic emissions events
In some cases, these “chemical releases” aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.
Why the Great Migration did little to bridge the Great Racial Divide
Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.
Lying whore, lying whore, lying whore, lying whores: Amber Heard and Women’s Right to bear witness
Why were people so ready to believe that Heard was lying–about everything?











