This interview was first posted by Bibliocracy Radio and broadcast on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. Click here to listen. Thursday, Sept 11 at 2:30 PM on KPFK: My guest this week is the writer and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster on his work in helping Monthly...
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Let them eat plastic!
In her thought-provoking blog, Celiwe Mxhalisa shines light on how capitalism has moved beyond exploiting natural resources to commodifying its own waste and pollution. This shift has created a new form of exploited labour, termed “counter-productive labour,”...
Historic images of slavery removed by national parks after Trump directive
Trump’s crusade to whitewash American history mirrors his administration’s attacks on art and science.
Working while Brown now new living while Black
The Supreme Court’s decision gives federal agents license to treat Latinos like second-class citizens, condoning the same racial profiling Black Americans have long faced from police.
As Ellison buys out TikTok, U.S. moves toward one-Party media
Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the U.S. and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world.
Imagine there was a violent cult committing atrocities with impunity
If someone made a movie about such a thing I’d stop watching halfway through, because I would find it too unbelievable.
Trump in a multipolar world
Chris Bambery describes some shifting global axes after the Shanghai summit.
Volunteer doctors describe how Israeli troops ‘deliberately targeted’ Gaza children
“How is it possible that, in this small hospital, four children are lying here with gunshot wounds to the head – all admitted within the past 48 hours?” said one US trauma surgeon.
The return of drug war imperialism
Trump’s priority isn’t drugs. It’s Latin American resources.
Argentina: Massive demonstration outside Congress coincides with a rejection of Milei inside
On a massive day, the university mobilization coincided with the session in chamber of Deputies that restored funding to universities and the Pediatric Emergency.
Art History Professor Placed on Leave Over Social Media Comments on Charlie Kirk
Karen Leader is a tenured professor who has taught at Florida Atlantic University since 2009.
Erdogan’s ‘domestic front’: The dismantling of democracy in Turkiye
By targeting the opposition and courting the Kurdish movement, Ankara is laying the groundwork for a post-electoral authoritarian system.