In September 1960, in the heart of Black America, Harlem’s Hotel Theresa became the stage for one of the world’s most monumental encounters.
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Fighting Trump and the Black collaborators too
Fighting Trump’s racist attacks is obviously a necessity but that fight must include opposing the Black misleadership class and their collaboration.
Trump turns Kirk memorial into campaign for theocratic-fascist dictatorship
The only serious question in American politics today is how this movement toward dictatorship can be stopped.
‘Fishing provides for everyone’: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part III)
On the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo, communards sustain themselves by fishing, but just as much through practices of solidarity.
Eating the future: The Metabolic logic of AI slop
An image of a downed U.S. F-35 jet—wings destroyed, afterburner still glowing—starts to trend.
‘A march of humanity’: Italy rediscovers its collective voice for Palestine
Hundreds of thousands marched across Italy on September 22, blocking highways and ports in one of the country’s largest mobilizations in decades, signaling the return of a collective voice against war and arms trade with Israel.
Beware Independent Central Banks
President Trump’s snide barbs against his appointee, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, have revived support for central bank independence–long used by powerful financial interests against growth and equity.
4 critical revelations about U.S. restrictions on Harvard highlight political control
U.S. restrictions on Harvard tighten, reflecting political pressures to curb academic freedom and impose ideological agendas.
Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed
Study shows U.S. death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050.
India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU
India found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with the Western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave...
Israel’s Biblical myth is burying the West Bank alive
With full western backing, Tel Aviv is entrenching a one-state apartheid system and extinguishing any prospect of Palestinian sovereignty.
Writing the Human Genome
A BOLD new project has been recently announced by a strong group of UK universities supported by the Wellcome Trust, which has more than £1 billion in funds.