Sweden Is Giving Elon Musk a Taste of Union Strength
Over the past several weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been getting a taste of what it’s like to operate a business in a part of the world where unions still have formidable power.
UN Report Details Rampant US Human Rights Violations at Home and Abroad
In its blistering November 3 report, the UN Human Rights Committee documented how little the U.S. has done to challenge the systemic, wide-ranging racism that continues to infuse every aspect of its society.
ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in Latin America
In a referendum on December 3, 2023, the Venezuelan people voted to affirm the sovereignty of their country over Essequibo. While doing so, they saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two countries.
A Tarnished Halo: Reassessing Nelson Mandela’s Legacy 10 Years After His Death
The most crucial contradiction when it comes to Mandela’s legacy is the central role played by him in: the gaining of democratic legitimacy alongside political control of the state without a corresponding transformation of the socioeconomic sphere.
Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
In this interview, Gabriel Rockhill dives deep into the CIA’s campaign to propagate thinly veiled imperialist and capitalist ideology through the institutions of the Western left intelligentsia—and how this state of affairs continues among intellectuals to this day.
Reclaiming Kimathi, Leader of the Mau Mau
On the legacy of Dedan Kimathi, leader of the Kenya Liberation and Freedom Army, also known as the Mau Mau.
If Capitalism Is ‘Natural,’ Why Was So Much Force Used to Build it?
Review of ‘The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism’ by Ian Angus: On how peasants fought to protect common land and resisted wage labor.
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence – Part I
A 3-part series explains the main features of the rapid growth of AI today, current research and issues in regulation. Part-I discusses the core idea of AI, the growth of ‘generative’ AI and, crucially, explores if it will serve humankind or develop an autonomy that can make it do dangerous things.
Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached $1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level
For decades, it has been recognized by independent researchers that actual U.S. military spending is approximately twice the officially acknowledged level. In 2022, actual U.S. military spending reached $1.537 trillion—more than twice the officially acknowledged level of $765.8 billion.
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The Pentagon Proclaims Failure in its War on Terror in Africa
America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. Its greatest failure however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa.