As Our Bodies and Planetary Systems Become ‘Inflamed’, How do We Heal?
In their new book, authors Rupa Marya and Raj Patel explore how capitalism and colonialism have caused sickness and how Indigenous knowledge can offer healing.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Online Blog | USA | World Politics
Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S.
Book Review: ‘Capitalism on a Ventilator’ compares the impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S., in the words of “social justice activists discussing a global choice: cooperation vs. competition.
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Revealed: the True Extent of America’s Food Monopolies, and Who Pays the Price
An investigation into the shocking scale of big food corporations’ market dominance and political power, and its consequences for the people.
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The New International Relations of Latin America: Interview with Bolivia’s Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta
Rogelio Mayta, who is pressing for a more democratic process of regional integration, explains why Bolivia is raising its voice against Luis Almagro, head of the OAS, both for his role in the 2019 coup, and his wider political actions, on behalf of the USA, in the domestic affairs of member states.
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While Western Powers Undermine Haitian Sovereignty, Venezuela Continues to Show Solidarity
Articles on the ongoing tragedy in Haiti do not highlight the nefarious role that groups affiliated with the United Nations and the US have played in Haiti in the past, and the positive role that other countries in the Global South, particularly Venezuela, have had on Haiti’s development.
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Struggles of the Roofless
Amid the debacle of Bolsanaro’s rule, Guilherme Boulos – coordinator of Brazil’s homeless workers, the MTST – speaks about the political crisis, barrio psychoanalysis, the balance sheet of the Lula-Dilma govts, the politics of impeachment and the militancy of practical experience.
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Nicaragua Launches New Plan to Fight Poverty and Promote Human Development
Interview with Ivan Acosta, Nicaragua’s minister of housing and public credit, with responsibility for key aspects of government planning. In July, he presented the country’s new “National Plan for the Fight against Poverty and for Human Development.”
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Lesley Blume’s ‘Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World’
Lesley Blume, a journalist and biographer, tells the fascinating story of the background to John Hersey’s pathbreaking article “Hiroshima,” and of its extraordinary impact upon the world.
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Einstein and Landau: Scientific Geniuses as well as Anti-Capitalists and Anti-Stalinists!
A discussion about Einstein and Landau, not in their capacity of exceptional scientists who marked the modern era, but in their capacity – mostly unknown as it was thoroughly buried—of anti-bureaucrat socialists and anti-Stalinist communists!
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Poetry of the Soul: the Sublime and Wondrous Odes of John Keats
John Keats relentlessly strived to achieve the ‘sublime’ in life and in poetry since he sensed that only this could help him to reach a stage of refined sensibility and heightened consciousness.
