The ‘Forever Prisoners’ of Guantanamo
The notorious prison camp in Cuba is 20 years old. Over the years, several plans to close it have been rejected. For the detainees, little has changed in the last two decades.
Islamophobia Is Taking its Most Lethal Form in India: Noam Chomsky
Celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky said the “pathology of Islamophobia”, now growing throughout the West, was “taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethnocracy”.
Chile: New Leader, Fresh Optimism, Old Obstacles; Also: Constitutional Convention Declares Chile a Plurinational State”
Now that Chile is about to inaugurate a president who is a fierce champion of human rights, it is time to memorialize victims of the Pinochet dictatorship – maybe then Kast, an ultra-right admirer of the Pinochet dictatorship, would have less support.
Co-lending: Another Bonanza for Private Capital
The State Bank of India recently announced that it had entered into a partnership with Adani Capital. Like with all public-private partnerships under capitalism, the public sector will bear the risk while the private sector will share the rewards generated largely by the investment of public capital.
AOC in Conversation with Noam Chomsky
At 93, Noam Chomsky is the most important leftist intellectual alive. At 32, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of most important leftist elected officials in the USA. The two speak in this interview about our prospects for winning a better world. It is the first time they have met.
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Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
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Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles
2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.
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Highland Resistance: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part I)
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes.
The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.
Nagaland Killings: AFSPA has No Place in a Democratic Country. It Must Go
The very existence of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act undermines constitutional principles such as the right to life and liberty.