Mainstream, Vol 63 No 3, Jan 18, 2025
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Tag: current affairs – international
America’s Academic Gulag (w/MIT Student Activists)
The Chris Hedges Report With Richard Solomon and Prahlad Iyengar “You can’t just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it’s serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of the Coalition for Palestine at MIT. On this episode of… Read More America’s Academic Gulag (w/MIT Student Activists)
‘No Civilians. Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
‘Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members’: IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child. These accounts of indiscriminate killing… Read More ‘No Civilians. Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules
The Biden administration has repeatedly undermined international institutions and law to shield Israel. This will come back to haunt them Mohamad Bazzi Donald Trump wants to revive American imperialism. For weeks, the president-elect has threatened to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal, possibly by military force. And he promised supporters that he would pressure Canada, through economic warfare,… Read More Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules
Israel Will Have to Pay a Heavy but Inevitable Price for Hostage-release Deal
After talking about ‘total victory’ for months, Netanyahu folded under Trump’s pressure. The emerging deal means Israel will forgo the obliteration of Hamas’ regime, leaving the terror group free to entrench its position in Palestinian society – but there is no choice: the hostages and soldiers being killed in Gaza for no reason are out… Read More Israel Will Have to Pay a Heavy but Inevitable Price for Hostage-release Deal
Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair
Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerous… Democracy under capitalism has always been heavily curtailed by corporate interests and plutocrats who have enjoyed far greater power than the average voter. When capitalism falls into… Read More Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair
The Hindu: Gaza and the moral crisis facing us. The Guardian on Gaza: a deepening disaster
NB: Since the relentless assault on the Vietnamese people from 1963 till 1975, there has been no crime more brutal, racist and criminal than what the USA and its proxy Israel have done in the past 14 months. As a conscientious Israeli newspaper says, after this there will be no turning back, Israel will implode… Read More The Hindu: Gaza and the moral crisis facing us. The Guardian on Gaza: a deepening disaster
Forget talk of defending workers, the US visa feud is about the market’s needs
Whether in America or Britain, working-class people only matter when immigration is an issue Kenan Malik On the one side stand Silicon Valley moguls and leaders of corporate America; on the other, longstanding Donald Trump loyalists and supporters of the Maga (“Make America great again”) movement. One side claims to be building America’s bright new future by… Read More Forget talk of defending workers, the US visa feud is about the market’s needs
Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws
From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term After 9/11, as Brown’s Costs of War Project reports, “These mass surveillance programs allow[ed] the U.S. government to warrantlessly and ‘incidentally’ vacuum up Americans’ communications, metadata and content, and store their information in data centers and repositories,” sacrificing standing protections in the name of greater… Read More Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws
Yanis Varoufakis: What to watch for in 2025 – Trump, the US dollar, and China
Yanis Varoufakis dives into the key global trends and challenges shaping 2025. From the return of Trump to the shifting power of the US dollar and China’s influence, he breaks down what these developments mean for the world economy and politics. Watch this thought-provoking analysis by DiEM25’s co-founder and leading economist. Yanis Varoufakis: What to… Read More Yanis Varoufakis: What to watch for in 2025 – Trump, the US dollar, and China
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