Marco Rubio’s [peripheral] personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America.
Mahmoud Khalil and Michael T. Workman discuss the new film documenting the student encampments at Columbia University and the brutal crackdown that eradicated them.
Whitney Webb on how mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways under the Trump administration.
Author and attorney Jennifer Harbury describes the “Silent Holocaust” in Guatemala and its links to the genocide in Gaza, using “any methods of barbarity necessary.”
Events will become increasingly difficult to predict as late-stage capitalism sees the oligarchy consume even the structures that had supported it.
The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.
“Obfuscating the killer” — Mohammed El-Kurd on his new book and the kind of journalism that transforms Palestinians into humanitarian subjects, avoiding a critical discussion of Zionism as the root of the occupation and the suffering.
Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media.
Essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra discusses the lesser-known genocidal escapades of Western governments and his latest book, The World After Gaza.
“The culture war was always a proxy economic war” — Catherine Liu discusses her new book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.