“Mexico for Mexicans” — the country’s new president displays the dynamism and determination of an emergent generation of non–Western leaders.
Patrick Lawrence: Speak, Claudia!
Category: Mexico
The Global Spread of Palestine’s Agony
Antony Loewenstein on Israel’s role in developing the military tools of imperial control around the world.
Vijay Prashad: Readers, Not Commodities
Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life — it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present and demand the impossible of the future.
US Border-Industrial Complex’s Bipartisan Boom
Joe Biden proactively helped build up Donald Trump’s deportation infrastructure and left office as the king of border contracts, writes Todd Miller.
Chris Hedges: The Western Way of Genocide
The Gaza genocide portends a dystopian world where the Global North’s industrialized violence sustains its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth, argues Chris Hedges.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s Failures Are America’s Failures
What can Americans learn from these opening days of what looks like a very long four years?
Searching for Monsters
Public acceptance of U.S. foreign excess — searching for monsters to destroy — leads to acceptance of war, and to acceptance of war by other means, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Mexico’s New President Vows to Uphold Obrador’s Agenda
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, has promised to continue her predecessor’s course of anti-neoliberal economic development.
Vijay Prashad: Violating Diplomatic Missions
From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North.
Palestinians Still Not Denied Right to Dream
Israel saying the ICJ remained “silent during the Holocaust” when the court didn’t exist yet, shows Israel has no answers to the ICJ orders, writes Vijay Prashad.