New Production Strategies: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune – Part II
A flagship commune in Venezuela responds to the US blockade by diversifying its production.
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Why Neo-Fascist and Far Right Parties are So Tame Toward Big Business
Unlike in the 1930s, now it is globalised capital, with which domestic big business is integrated, confronting the nation-State.
WikiLeaks Expose: Council on Foreign Relations Controls Most Mainstream Media in USA
While a handful of companies control almost everything the Western world consumes in regard to media, a report by the Swiss Propaganda Research center says that all these media companies are tied to a single organization—the Council on Foreign Relations.
Pegasus and Cyberweapon Threats in the Age of Smartphones
Spyware like Pegasus is not just dangerous as it wrests complete control over an infected phone. It is menacing also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
The US Tries to Take Advantage of the Price Cubans are Paying for the Blockade and the Pandemic
Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages.
Fighting for Survival, Building for Power
For members of ‘nou pap Dòmi’, a collective within Haiti’s petroChallengers movement, the anti-corruption struggle is a space to imagine the kind of society they seek to create.
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Bangladesh Factory Fire Kills 50+ Workers – Yet Another Murder by Capital: Two Articles
Capital’s absolute disregard for life once again surfaces in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, where 52 workers have been burnt to death on 9 July 2021, after they were denied exit when fire broke out in the food-processing factory which had almost no fire-safety mechanisms installed.
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Are Tokyo’s Olympics in Peril?
Japan is currently wrestling with a coronavirus upsurge and less than 3 percent of the population is vaccinated. According to polls, as much as 80 percent of the country does not want to host the games, for fear of it exacerbating this omnipresent public health crisis.
Can Humanity Prevent War from Ever Happening Again?
While conflict and war have written much of modern human history, they offer an incomplete narrative. Anthropological evidence suggests war is not innate to humanity. An interview with Doug P. Fry about his work studying peace systems and their potentially global implications.
The Cinematograph Act Always Gave the Govt Too Much Power. That’s Why We Challenged it.
As we stand at the intersection of freedom and state control, the judiciary is the only hope. Though that hope has also faded in recent years, our challenge is to not give up the Sisyphean fight to set governmental authoritarianism at naught.