If there was an award for the world’s most hypocritical political party, the Liberal Party of Canada would be frontrunners to take the prize.
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Beijing 2022 and China’s challenge to sports imperialism
In this essay, Charles Xu exposes these narratives for the new Cold War propaganda they are. At the same time, he draws from valuable left analysis of the Olympic movement’s historical imbrication with white supremacy to explore China’s fraught relationship with...
How to lie with inequality statistics
It’s a “simple story,” with clear political implications. Maybe that’s the reason the Krugmans of the world don’t want to tell it. . .
A week has passed—and still not a single word in the ‘NYTimes’ about Amnesty International’s landmark report that found Israel practices ‘apartheid’
The New York Times's failure to report on the Amnesty International report accusing Israel of apartheid is no oversight -- it is a deliberate effort to suppress the news.
Portuguese elections – ‘Socialist’ party wins but defeat for Left
Dave Kellaway looks at the Portuguese general election result.
Barack Obama’s father identified as CIA asset in U.S. drive to “recolonize” Africa during early days of the Cold War
Over the last decade, the U.S. has been quietly expanding its covert intelligence empire in Africa as part of a growing geopolitical rivalry with China.
Dossier no. 49: A map of Latin America’s present: An interview with Héctor Béjar
Four emblematic coups have now been substantially reversed: Chile (1973), Peru (1992), Honduras (2009), and Bolivia (2019). Each of these coups was driven by political forces of the far right backed by the military and by the United States government.
Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom
It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector.
What Cuba can give the peoples, and has given, is its example
On February 4, 1962, in José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, the Second Declaration of Havana was ratified by popular acclaim, an emphatic response to the aggression, sabotage and crimes against our country, financed by the United States.
Alex Saab is being tortured in the U.S., denounces Diplomat’s wife Camila (+Oscar López Rivera)
Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab “is suffering torture and inhumane treatment everyday in the United States,” decried his wife Camila Fabri Saab during a solidarity event for the diplomat, hosted last Friday, February 3, by the US-based human rights organization Alliance...
USA CIA veteran hosting anti-China ‘Uyghur diaspora’ podcast funded by U.S. government
The “WEghur Stories” podcast claims to speak on behalf of “the Uyghur diaspora,” and uses intersectional feminist rhetoric to demonize China. But it’s co-created and hosted by an ex CIA agent, with funding from the U.S. embassy in France.
Class struggle and freedom beyond colonial borders
The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how truly interconnected our world is, how superficial colonial borders are, and thus how the struggle for freedom must link localized organizing to broader global insurgencies.