South Africa: Community at the Heart of Hunger Struggle
Communal gardens and farming enterprises are the beginning of sustainable food sovereignty in South Africa, but a basic income grant is essential to address hunger in the shorter term.
The US-Led “War on Terror” Has Devastated Much of the World
Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview that the outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, and also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that belies the actions of the global empire.
Over Two Decades, US’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion
A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars. Also: Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad.
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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.
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.
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.”
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.
The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan
A 40-year chapter of American involvement has come to an end. But we need to understand how we got here, or else we will simply be waiting for the next monstrous, long-running atrocity to arise, with the same rationalizations of Liberty and Freedom that our leaders have used to cover up their deliberate policies of mass murder, war profiteering and corruption.
WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture
Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.