The danger to human life lies not so much in heat as in heat waves, extreme events that have more than doubled in frequency and length in recent decades.
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Columnist Karen Attiah fired at The Washington Post
According to Attiah, she was the last full-time Black opinion columnist at The Post, where she was employed for 11 years. Other Black Washington Post staffers in senior positions who have recently departed, via the recent buyout round, include Monica Norton and...
United Nations inquiry finds Israel committed genocide in Gaza
The decision increases pressure for sanctions, judicial action, and international accountability.
Israel using booby-trapped vehicles to displace residents and destroy central neighborhoods in Gaza City
Euro-Med Monitor’s teams documented the detonation of ten booby-trapped armoured vehicles this morning, Wednesday, 17 September, between residential homes in Street 8, south of Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, one of Gaza City’s central residential areas.
Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity
The prime minister’s inaction on a U.S. massacre in the Caribbean echoes his past role in undermining Venezuela’s sovereignty.
Trump promotes a “Charlie Kirk Act” to establish a Ministry Of Truth
I’ve said it many times before and I’ll surely say it many times again: when everyone’s emotions are running hot, that’s when it’s most important to be intensely skeptical of everything your government does.
How does China’s system really work? Renowned scholar Zhang Weiwei explains the ‘China model’
How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.
Gaza Inc: Where genocide is battle-tested and market-ready
Gaza has become Tel Aviv's showroom for privatized extermination, where tech firms, mercenaries, and aid contractors collaborate in a scalable model of industrial genocide sold to allies across the globe.
Venezuela targeted because it is ‘the poster child of everything the U.S. empire fears’: Ben Norton
In a recent interview with Jyotishman Mudiar of India & Global Left, respected geopolitical analyst Ben Norton provided an in-depth explanation of why Venezuela has been targeted for regime change by U.S. imperialism since Hugo Chávez was elected to the presidency...
Evidence that the Empire is crumbling
The problem, as Karl Marx told us 150 years ago, is capitalism is an exploitative system so that means its existence is dependent upon saturating the markets to maximize profitability.
Race/Class 101: The Dialectics of Nation, Class Struggle and Revolutionary Rupture in the United States
From genocide and slavery to neoliberal globalization and Trump 2.0, the United States has never been a multiracial democracy—it has been a settler empire. To fight it demands clarity: nation and class cannot be separated.
Venezuela denounces U.S. spy flights, says reconnaissance missions have tripled (+Guyana & Trinidad)
The defense minister warned that this deployment in the Caribbean Sea is intended to generate a war that “we Venezuelans, the peoples of the Caribbean, the peoples of Central America and Latin America do not want. We are a Zone of Peace, clearly established by CELAC...