Millions of Evangelicals have “anointed” Trump as their modern day King Cyrus, despite his deeply UN-Christian lifestyle. Why? Because he promised them to end legal access to abortion in the US, which is all they care about as a fast-track toward Christian theocracy in the US… Six of the nine SCOTUS justices are devout, ideological Catholics,… Read More US Supreme Court is Driven by Christian Theocracy
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, corruption is rife, crime is high and the economy is a mess. The party of Mandela admits it ‘made mistakes’. But will the people forgive them? Steve Bloomfield in Johannesburg In the heart of Soweto, the birthplace of South African democracy has been burned, looted and stripped for parts.… Read More ‘We didn’t fight for this’: ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election
‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile By Jonathan Cook On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building… Read More The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians
NB: Salute! For resisting state oppression, for defending the defenceless people of Gaza, and for upholding the democratic traditions of American students, I salute you. We are Spartacus. DS A group walked out during Harvard College’s commencement to decry the exclusion of 13 would-be graduates who were said to be involved in an earlier pro-Palestinian… Read More Hundreds walk out of Harvard College graduation; UCLA contends with new protest
Thousands of students face severe consequences for protesting Gaza violence. Alan Macleod investigates the powerful financial and ideological ties to Israel driving the harsh responses from America’s top universities. By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept… Read More How Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests
The Arsenal of Genocide: The US Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound and 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and threatened to withhold more shipments if Israel went ahead with its full-scale invasion of Rafah. The move… Read More Arsenal of Genocide: US Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza / NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons and Risk
Sharp rise in number of people facing a crisis in freedom of speech, while authors particularly alarmed by deterioration in India under Narendra Modi Half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind according to a new report on freedom of expression. In its annual report, the advocate group Article 19 found the number of people… Read More More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds
How can the left escape burnout? Hannah Proctor; Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat SAM ADLER-BELL the left can sometimes become “more attached to its impossibility than to its potential fruitfulness, a Left that is most at home dwelling not in hopefulness but in its own marginality and failure, a Left that is thus caught… Read More Between Victory and Defeat
WORLD INEQUALITY DATABASE Given its geographic size and population, now the largest in the world, the distribution of economic growth in India has significant implications for global inequality dynamics. This underscores the importance of accurately measuring income and wealth inequality in India. In this paper, Nitin Kumar Bharti, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Anmol Somanchi… Read More Economic inequality in India: ‘billionaire raj’ is now more unequal than British colonial rule
UK court approves Assange extradition appeal Washington, D.C., May 20, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the U.K. High Court’s Monday decision to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal his extradition case. “We are heartened that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be allowed to appeal his extradition to the United States,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg,… Read More UK court approves Assange extradition appeal / Why Julian Assange’s fate matters
