France seeks to rebrand itself as a partner of African sovereignty rather than as a custodian of neocolonialism while the living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive force.
Vijay Prashad: France’s African Shadow
Category: Income Inequality
Chris Hedges: Tyranny or Revolution
As social inequality has grown, so has state repression. As we stand on the cusp of full-blown authoritarianism and fascism, we face two stark choices.
JOE LAURIA: Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction
WATCH: Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance?
WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Mamdani 5 Months Later’
Theodore Hamm, author of Meet Mayor Mamdani, joins CN Live! to assess Zohran Mamdani’s first five months in office as New York City’s socialist mayor. 8 pm EDT tonight, Wednesday.
V. Prashad: Interval of Time
With the resurgence of socialist politics among young voters in the West comes a resurgence of attacks. Vijay Prashad looks at the early obstacles societies faced in trying to build socialism post revolution.
Jonathan Cook: Western Democracy?
Western societies are not led by individuals. Rather, they are shaped by structural forces that reward the super rich and operate like laws of nature — though there is nothing natural about them.
Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future
Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.
WATCH: Live — Memorial Service for Michael Parenti
Live from Berkeley, California at 2 pm PDT, 5 pm EDT Saturday, a memorial service for Michael Parenti, the great historian, social critic, author and lecturer. Speakers include Dennis Kucinich, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Christian Parenti and Marcie Smith.
US TAX DAY: Avg. Taxpayer Paid $4K for War Last Year
Americans spent about 50 days working and paying taxes last year just to feed the war machine — with 23 days going to pay Pentagon contractors and their millionaire CEOs, Lindsay Koshgarian and Hanna Homestead report.
America’s Inevitable Conflict
As the midterm elections begin, U.S. society is stretching its existing polarization to a new extreme, writes Ramzy Baroud.