Here are seven theses to begin to understand the protests that young people have led across the world and perhaps channel them in a progressive direction.
Vijay Prashad: Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South
Tag: Neoliberalism
Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Trump
Democrats may be denouncing the current assaults on social programs, writes Norman Solomon. But three decades ago Bill Clinton’s embrace of the private sector began clearing the path for Trump’s wrecking crew.
Vijay Prashad: Liberals Paved the Way to the Far Right
The passivity — and complicity — of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far-right of a special type.
Vijay Prashad: Nuclear Missile Diplomacy
Europe and the United States have adopted a path of austerity and war. That is their promise to the world for the period ahead.
The Fragility of Jewish Supremacy in Israel
Israel’s new front with Iran signals the Netanyahu government’s willingness to induce terror in its own public, writes Miko Zeldes-Roth from Jerusalem.
Vijay Prashad: Frankenstein Disavows His Monster
Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
The late U.S. president may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
An Ignored US Diplomat’s Warning on Russia
In an interview with Natylie Baldwin, E. Wayne Merry reflects on his 1994 State Department telegram concerning Western relations with post-Soviet Russia.
Chris Hedges Report: How Fascism Came
The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. He is the symptom, not the disease.
Patrick Lawrence: The Center the Centrists Can’t Hold
What is unfolding now in France and Germany is happening one or another way across the Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress.