By Chris Hedges* – ScheerPost No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy. The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the…
By Aisha Maniar* – Truthout The so-called “war on terror,” initiated by the U.S. and its global allies in response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001, did not so much change the rules of warfare as throw them out of the window. In the aftermath of 9/11 and the ensuing wars in…
By James Connolly* , 1911 The British monarchy is a vestige of tyranny, a grand monument to hierarchy and plunder. As Irish socialist James Connolly wrote in 1911, the royals are for the other despots of society, the capitalists and landlords — not for the working class.
By Adam Gopnik* – The New Yorker The West’s favored form of self-government is looking creaky. A legal scholar and a philosopher propose some alternatives “Democracy is the worst form of government,” Churchill is said to have said, “except all those other forms that have been…
Fanjul – El País in english, Spain The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too much identity politics Francis Fukuyama…
By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Sep 7 2022 (IPS) – More than two-thirds of 10-year-olds are unable to read and understand a simple text. This shocking finding should be enough to be alarmed about the horrifying fate of an entire generation. But there is much more.
By Lucrezia Reichlin* – Project Syndicate The key to the success of Europe’s two big political families, Christian democrats and democratic socialists, has been their well-developed political and ethical cultures. The Brothers of Italy, which will most likely lead the country’s…
Jake Johnson* – Common Dreams/Truthout Trailing badly in the polls with the presidential election less than a month away, far-right Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro is attempting to galvanize his supporters with incendiary rhetoric and lies about the integrity of the vote —…
By Daniel Lehewych* , Freelance Writer – Newsweek In criticizing hyperpartisanship in general—neither specifically targeting the left nor the right—one readily finds visceral accusations of seeing the far-left and far-right as “equally bad.” By such reflexive standards, this…
By Baher Kamal* Over one year after the Taliban takeover, an estimated 24.4 million people – 59 per cent of the population in Afghanistan – are dependent on international aid and emergency relief in their day-to-day lives. MADRID, Sep 6 2022 (IPS) – Both mainstream media…
