President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations–including his family business–at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes...
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Smashing walls, building firewalls, and breaking the digital siege
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting...
Don’t Negotiate: Negotiation Strategy Notes for Law Firms Under Attack by the Trump Administration from Harvard Law Professor of Negotiation (April 13, 2025)
As a law firm under attack from the Trump Administration, you face an impossible choice.
‘From Bad to Worse: The New Political Setting and Challenges for the Canadian Left’
The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism itself is not working.
Comment | The 1930s all over again? Trump and ‘Entartete Kunst’ revisited
There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe.
Hegel reading Heraclitus
Antonis Chaliakopoulos offers an intro to Heraclitus, and to Hegel, via each other.
Trump Administration’s affinity for Salvadoran dictator shows authoritarian nature
El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era.
America’s national parks are among the victims of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to drown our government in a bathtub
Park rangers are our most trusted federal employees, and national parks are America’s gift to the world... but the new Trump regime is choking them, depriving them of the personnel and resources they need.
Trump advisor reveals tariff strategy: Force countries to pay tribute to maintain U.S. empire
Donald Trump’s top economic advisor Stephen Miran revealed that Washington’s strategy is to use tariffs to force countries to pay the USA tribute to maintain its global financial and military empire. This is the idea behind the so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord”.
‘Death Sentence’ – Israel bombs Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, again
The only functioning hospital in Gaza City has been forced out of service after an Israeli airstrike destroyed key medical departments.
Trump’s tariff aggression
It is important for an intellectual position not only to be right but to be right for the right reasons; and the near-universal condemnation of Donald Trump’s aggressive imposition of tariffs, though right, is right for the wrong reasons.
The State of Capitalism in Flux: Economy, Society, and Hegemony under Today’s Interregnum
“Everything gives way and nothing stands fast.” —Heraclitus, as quoted in Plato’s Cratylus1 During the “Age of Catastrophe” (1919–45), a series of profound economic, political, and ideological crises disrupted what had appeared to be the “normal” functioning of...