Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Libya 15 Years Later: What NATO’s War Still Teaches the World
The world is being sold the same “human rights” pretext for the assault on Iran that left Libya in ruins fifteen years ago.
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Fragile Regimes, Silent Powers: The Political Limits of the Arab World in a Turbulent Middle East – 2 Articles
‘From Palestine to Iran: What Arab and Muslim Silence Really Reveals’: The overriding priority of the Arab regimes is the preservation of the regional status quo, whatever the human cost. And if maintaining that order requires the slow destruction of Palestine, many of them have already demonstrated that they are willing to pay that price. Also: ‘The Fragility of Gulf States’.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
From Empire to ICE: The Historical Roots and Expansion of America’s Carceral State and Detention Regime – 3 Articles
‘The American Gulag 2026’; ‘Trump’s Concentration Camps Are Not New to the U.S.’; ‘Mass Incarceration Arose Out of Empire Building Across North America, Carribean and Pacific’: The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails.
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Bulgarian Misrule
Bulgarians will go to the polls for the eighth time in five years later this month, after a massive wave of protests brought down Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov’s right-wing coalition at the end of last year.
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How Billionaire Elites Help Fund an Oxford Statistics Lab That Makes the Destruction of Earth Look Just Great
Ketcham argues that ‘Our World in Data’, the influential Oxford-based statistics platform founded by Max Roser, presents an overly optimistic narrative of human progress that downplays ecological collapse, inequality, and the destructive costs of global capitalism.
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The Forbes’s 40th Annual World’s Billionaires List; Global Rich’s Hidden Wealth; It’s Time to Tax the Rich – 3 Articles
‘What the Forbes’s 40th Annual World’s Billionaires List Reveals About Our World?’; ‘“A System Rigged”: Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half’; ‘It’s Time to Tax the Rich’.
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Iran Stands Firm as Washington Seeks a Way Out of the U.S.–Iran Conflict – 3 Articles
‘Washington Wants Out. Iran Isn’t Opening the Door’: Eleven days into Operation Epic Fury, Washington faces a problem it created for itself: how to exit a war it cannot win. Also: ‘Mojtaba’s Message to Trump: “Bring It On!”’; and: ‘Iran-US Conflict Turns into Prolonged Attrition’.
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Capitalism | Gaza | Imperialism | Israel | Online Blog
Third Ramadan Under Genocide Has Not Squashed its Spirit
As we bid farewell to the holy month of Ramadan, however, something of Ramadan has survived. The small act of gathering and praying side by side in tiny tent mosques, the unamplified calls to prayer, and the laughter we still manage when someone loses their balance on the uneven floors, make this holy month worth living and are a reminder of the spirit of the people of Gaza.
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On International Women’s Day: Kollontai’s Extraordinary Politics vs the Right’s War on Women – 2 Articles
‘Falling in Love Again: The Extraordinary Politics of Alexandra Kollontai – Book Review’: Kollontai’s writings on women’s oppression and their struggle for liberation are as clarifying and brilliantly relevant today as they have always been. Also: ‘The Right’s War on Women’.
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On International Women’s Day: The Struggle of India’s Women Workers – 2 Articles
‘Invisible Hands, Unrecognized Labour: India’s Domestic Workers and the Limits of Women’s Empowerment’; ‘Women Without Work: Capitalism, Care Labour and India’s Failed Growth Model’: India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates among major economies.
