The horrors Israel has committed against Palestinians should shock anyone who dares learn the truth. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Screengrab from a video posted by Israel Channel 12 that appears to show the sexual assault of [...]
A highly sceptical take on AI. Cross-posted from Counterfire Picture by deepak pal Is AI Going to take my job? Statistically… no, but you’re not supposed to know that. The capacity for AI to eliminate [...]
What neither side can admit is that neither Brexit UK nor the EU has achieved any success in the past decade. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a [...]
The con of neoliberalism has gutted our democracy and paved the way for fascism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served [...]
The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the [...]
Fiscal consolidation packages reduce approval, drive protests and raise the odds of a major government crisis – especially in downturns Philipp Heimberger is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) Anna [...]
History remembers those who committed atrocities. It also remembers those who looked away. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (with Grieve Chelwa) is How the International [...]
Britain’s ruling class and PMC keep plumbing new depths Internal emails reveal changes resulted directly from complaints by pro-Israel activists, with the museum and its director subsequently misleading prominent critics Namir Shabibi is an independent [...]
Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of [...]