What happened to the 21st-century city? Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives – BY RENE BOER this sadness is felt by so many people who find a place for themselves in a city and who know what it means to see their spaces of security, community, and openness taken away in exchange for more… Read More A Seamless Dystopia
GAZA casualties live statistics Israel’s lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state. It is remarked often enough, including in this space, that Israel’s savagery in its determination to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza — and we had better brace for what is next on the West Bank of… Read More Patrick Lawrence: Authorized Atrocities / Late-Imperial Duplicities
Martin Luther King Jr’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time Michelle Alexander / The Nation This moment feels different. Something new is in the air. Of course, everything is always changing. Impermanence is the way of life. Philosophers, theologians, and poets have reminded us… Read More Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now
By ALFRED MCCOY Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted serious colonial crises in India, Iran… Read More Facing three global crises, the American empire may be nearing final collapse
Historians will find many reasons for the end of this American era, but the siege of TikTok reminds us that its largest cause was the epoch-defining rise of China… The US, that apostle of laissez-faire and free speech, now wants to save 170 million American TikTok users from themselves by banning an app. It’s hard to be… Read More TikTok, tick-tock
NB: Israel and its enablers, the Western establishment, led by the USA & UK have mutated into a global manifestation of the Ku Klux Klan. They are carrying out a mass lynching in front of our noses, in full view of the whole world, and the don’t give a damn. The atrocities they have committed,… Read More Israeli Genocide Causing ‘Complete Psychological Destruction’ of Gaza Children
By Angus Deaton Economics has achieved much; there are large bodies of often-nonobvious theoretical understandings and of careful and sometimes-compelling empirical evidence. The profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic… Read More In Economics, do we know what we’re doing?
GAZA casualties live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem Settler Extremists plan to defiantly settle in Gaza Israeli settlers in the illegally occupied territories continue to wreak havoc on the Palestinian residents, stealing their land, demolishing their homes, assaulting them on a daily basis, and stealing their live-stock.… Read More Israeli settler extremists plan to defiantly settle in Gaza
Analysis shows how jets and tanks are being kept fuelled despite interim ICJ ruling warning Israel to prevent genocidal acts Nina Lakhani Israeli jets and tanks bombarding Palestinians are being fuelled by some of the world’s most profitable fossil fuel companies – and US tax-payers, according to research. Israel relies on crude oil and refined… Read More How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza
Neurological conditions ranging from migraine to stroke, Parkinson’s disease and dementia, are now the leading cause of ill-health worldwide, causing 11.1 million deaths in 2021, research has revealed. The number of people living with or dying from disorders of the nervous system has risen dramatically over the past three decades, with 43% of the world’s… Read More Neurological conditions now leading cause of ill-health worldwide, finds study
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