We Are in Palestine, Habibi, and Palestine Is Heaven: Two Articles
Standing up against Israel’s impunity, backed full-throatedly by the United States … There is no time to wait.
Twitter Targets Accounts of News Outlets Covering Unrest in Bolivia
MintPress News, along with a number of independent Bolivian news outlets and journalists covering the unrest there, were all targeted for suspension at the same time.
Latin America under CoronaShock: Social Crisis, Neoliberal Failure, and the People’s Alternatives
In Latin America, the pandemic has furthered – sometimes dramatically – a series of economic and social processes that were already underway before the virus emerged.
Black Lives Matter a Lot in Cuba… Since 1959
Cuban has contributed immensely to African liberation struggles. No wonder that the first country Nelson Mandela visited after his release from prison in 1991 was Cuba. And a tribute to Hatuey, the great Taino warrior.
The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. A look at US wars in Philippines, Korea, Vietnam …
The Storm of Protest in the United States
Foster discusses the future of the ongoing protests in the United States.
Israeli Atrocities on the Rise
Two recent UN reports reveal the extent to which the Israeli regime has intensified systematic violence against Palestinians while it pushes forward with the ‘Annexation Plan’.
Rising Authoritarianism in Philippines and Shrinking Spaces for Democracy
The Corona Pandemic and subsequent lockdown in Philippines have been used by the President Duterte to push for passage of Anti Terrorism Bill, to intimidate civil society and curb any resistance – very similar to what the NDA is doing in India.
How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped capitalism make the effects of its cyclical downturns socially tolerable.
Everything Affects and Is Affected by Every Other Thing
John Bellamy Foster [The following was published as part of roundtable in answer to the question: What is the main lesson that environmental movements should carry forward from the coronavirus pandemic? —Ed.] In his classic ecological work, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, Frederick Engels observed that “in nature…