1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (643+ words) While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power. Juan O’Gorman, Mexico, Mexico City, 1949. (Via Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) For 40 years,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1184+ words) When imperialism turns knowledge, technology and art into instruments of submission, radical traditions teach another lesson. Imperialism, the delegates understood, does not survive by the gun and the bank alone. It also occupies the school, the radio station, the publishing…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (476+ words) Shell posted nearly $10 billion in second-quarter results as consumers struggled with higher living costs and the U.K. suffered a deadly heatwave, Jake Johnson reports. Shell station in Canada. (Raysonho/Wikimedia Commons / CC0) The London-based oil behemoth Shell has reported its net profit…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1017+ words) Pine Gap is a garrison outpost dominated by the U.S. imperium that defiles sacred native land and aids Israel in its cleansing conflict against Palestinians, writes Binoy Kampmark. Pine Gap, a key U.S.-run listening post in Australia’s Northern Territory, Pine Gap…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1490+ words) Across much of the Global South the old certainties of the IMF’s dogma of austerity models have evaporated. What replaces it must come from the people of Global South. Attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari, Italy, Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (774+ words) Gabriel Accascina says that the international body, in setting up the IAEA in 1957, has addressed the supply side of a dangerous industry before and in the case of fast of fast-growing AI it can do it again. By Gabriel Accascina…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (808+ words) Long before it became the jugular vein of the modern global economy, this narrow waterway was the sacred and strategic maritime gateway to the Persian empire, writes M. Reza Behnam. Persian Gulf near Hormuz Island in the Hormuz Strait, Iran, 2011. (Ninara…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (687+ words) The prominent Australian journalist, in court accused of racial hatred for her reporting critical of Israel’s genocide, has won Consortium News’ 2026 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award, which she was given at a ceremony in Sydney on Sunday. The…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (115+ words) With the war on Iran stuck in low-intensity conflict, new focus is on the U.S.-Israel relationship. Everyone has a theory, but it’s perhaps more complex than it looks. This week we try to unravel it. 8pm EDT Tonite. Guests: Peter…Read…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (759+ words) Instead of being boycotted, Israel, in the midst of genocide, sold more weapons to Arabs in 2025 than to the U.S. Europe was the biggest purchaser, per Israel’s MoD, and India bought more Israeli arms than any single nation. Israeli Ministry of…...