The passivity–and complicity–of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far right of a special type.
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The consolidation crisis
Mergers, money, and the erosion of patient-centered care.
Beyond Eurocentrism
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin.
On the ethics of embedding With génocidaires
On Sunday, August 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a dramatic announcement: After 674 days of barring foreign media from Gaza, Israel was planning to begin staging guided tours, under Israeli military control, for embedded members of the foreign press.
China challenges legality of U.S. ‘freedom of navigation’ operations
The report is seen as a direct rebuttal to longstanding U.S. military claims and is intended to provide a professional, legal framework defending the maritime rights of coastal states.
African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size
The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa‘s size. Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for...
The digital metabolic rift: Why do we live beyond our means online?
A quick tap on Google Maps, a casual search query, a video to unwind at the end of the day—our digital lives feel light and limitless.
Like dictators of the past, Trump is building a private army
Not since the days of Hitler’s S.A.—the “Brownshirt” stormtroopers—has a leader in an advanced capitalist country wielded a private political army outside the regular military and police forces that is answerable only to them.
How to get the IMF to think
Over its 81-year history, the IMF has published over 15,000 reports. Yet, if you download any one of the reports from its website, it is likely that you will know what is being said before you have even read it.
Don’t look away
The revolution will not be televised but the genocide is being filmed.
The Experience of Nanjie Village and the Possibilities of Socialist Development in Contemporary China: Successes of the Collective Economy under Reform and Opening-Up
With the beginning of the reform and opening-up policy, the People’s Republic of China entered a new historical period in its development. Starting in 1978, the country began to prioritize a development model with characteristics quite distinct from those prevailing...
Whose workers, whose wages? A revolutionary intervention against the Imperial Left’s China syndrome
While China brings electricity, roads, and rail to the Global South, the imperial left brings its measuring tape—only to weep over wage gaps. But whose gap are they really mourning? And in whose name?