The Catastrophe of the Rohingya
Rohingyas in Burma are now one of most persecuted peoples in the world. What they're experiencing can only be called genocide.
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Stop the War. Stop US Empire.
The United States has no right to bomb countries, to overthrow governments, or toassassinate other states’ officials, though it has been doing so for so long that these practices have come to be widely accepted as natural.
Filmed in Western Sahara, The Odyssey Endorses Colonialism
For five decades, Morocco has illegally occupied Western Sahara. The shooting of part of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in the territory, backed by state subsidies, serves a far-reaching effort to normalize Morocco’s colonial rule.
The CIA Is Not Your Friend
The CIA is rebranding as a rational, progressive arm of the US state. And some liberals are buying it.
John Pilger’s Reporting Demolished Western Propaganda’s Myths
John Pilger, who died on December 30, had an extraordinary career as a reporter. His journalism informed countless people about the catastrophic impact of US foreign policy during and after the Cold War, from Vietnam and Cambodia to Nicaragua and East Timor.
Orbán’s Critics Dropped Their Principles — and Lost the Election
Hungary's election was always going to be an uphill battle in the face of incumbent Viktor Orbán's overweening power. But the opposition's lack of a clear alternative meant it ran simply as an anti-Orbán front — and it failed to mobilize voters.
The Age of Regression
Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived.
Their Internationalism and Ours
The real choice is not between globalization and deglobalization, free trade and tariff walls, but between empowering capital and empowering workers.
When British Workers Stood Against the Pinochet Coup
When Chile’s generals overthrew Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973, Britain’s Tories welcomed the coup as good news for investors. But British trade unions worked to block trade with the newly empowered Chilean fascists.
Jeremy Corbyn: Palestinian Freedom Must Be Part of Our Commitment to Human Rights
Seventy-five years after the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Jeremy Corbyn writes that some of its loudest celebrants are showing monstrous hypocrisy by supporting the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians.
UN Peacekeepers Are Not Your Friends
Even for the United Nations, bombs and troops are increasingly the solution to problems created by an unjust global economy.