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• We support UN Human Rights Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
  8 November 2024

  As Jewish organizations and groups, we express our support for Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967.
  Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate. Those organizations have one objective: shielding the Israeli government from (…)

• Quantity to Quality
  22 November 2024, by Yanis Varoufakis

  You are one of several theorists, along with Cédric Durand, Jodi Dean, Mariana Mazzucato and others, who have speculated that the hegemony of Big Tech – using algorithms to build data empires that function as a seemingly limitless source of value – may be pushing beyond capitalism’s frontiers. In your 2023 book Technofeudalism you claim that, just as the early modern period saw land supplanted by productive capital as the dominant factor in production, the early twenty-first century has seen (…)

• Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
  3 December 2024, by Economic and Political Weekly-Editorial

  The Israeli campaign of systematic erasure of Gaza exposes the hollowness of the “rules-based order.”
  More than 400 days have elapsed since the beginning of Israel’s relentless aggression against the people of Gaza. According to the most recent figures from the Ministry of Health, Gaza, 44,249 persons have been killed so far and more than 10,000—not included in the number of casualties—are reported missing or under the rubble. However, these figures only account for direct deaths and the (…)

• Settler Colonialism and the Act of Selective Deafness
  9 November 2024, by Archisha Rai

  The genocide of the people of Palestine is still ongoing. Despite a plethora of video evidence and testimonies from Palestine itself, the world remains deaf to the cries of Palestinians. Locating the sociality of sound and the act of political listening in the case of the ongoing genocide, it is argued that listening, in the truest sense, is a political act that shapes our experience of the social. When we close ourselves to the sounds of certain people, ideas, movements, etc, we create for (…)

• Fascism in the United States
  13 November 2024, by Taki Manolakos

  Trump secures victory, controls both chambers of the legislature. The end of neoliberalism heralds the rise of fascism.
  Citizens of the United States cast their ballots on Tuesday November 5th. We elected a President, Congressmen, Senators, and voted for state offices and ballot initiatives across the country. Focusing on the presidential race, Donald Trump secured a second term. The President is elected according to a system known as the Electoral College, where each state is allotted a (…)

• Tunisia: Green Hydrogen for Export
  26 November 2024, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Faced with the dangers of global warming caused by fossil fuels (especially oil and gas), the world is increasingly turning to clean, renewable energies, because they are environmentally friendly, as they reduce carbon emissions that are polluting both the air and oceans. So the countries of the world, especially the industrialized nations, whose industries consume a lot of energy, are banking on green hydrogen, produced using the triad of water, solar energy and wind turbines installed over (…)

• It’s Happening Again
  7 November 2024, by Matt Karp

  And until Democrats can find a way to win back some large chunk of working-class voters, Donald Trump’s successors will be favored in the next presidential election too.
  It is happening again.” This morning, with Donald Trump in command of another crushing presidential victory, the dreadful words from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks sit like lead inside many stomachs. As the climax of a frenzied campaign and the triumph of so much that is vicious and corrosive in American society, Trump’s second (…)

• The Sri Lankan Left’s Long Road to Power
  26 November 2024, by Devaka Gunawardena and Ahilan Kadirgamar

  The victory of the National People’s Power (NPP) candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in the Sri Lankan presidential election represented a major shift in the South Asian state’s political trajectory. Dissanayake’s upset was soon followed by parliamentary elections in which his coalition won two thirds of the seats, an unprecedented feat since the system of proportional representation was established in the late 1980s. For the first time since the 1970s, a left-wing party is not only (…)