Michael Laxer
A Nuclear War in Ukraine Is a Distinct Possibility
An interview with Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen. Volodymyr Zelensky during his speech to Congress, December 2022 - public...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 205 min read
We Need Public Education to Help Us Address the Challenges We Face, But It’s Under Threat
By the Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium Over the past few decades, humanity has embarked on an unprecedented...
Michael Laxer
Sep 202 min read
Corporate profiteers are robbing US farmers
America’s agriculture policies were written by corporate lobbyists who couldn’t run a watermelon stand. South Dakota Farm Corn Harvest -...
Michael Laxer
Sep 195 min read
The World Says That Israel’s Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Must End
By Vijay Prashad On September 18, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution that demanded that Israel...
Michael Laxer
Sep 186 min read
Sudanese Communist Party on over 500 days of devastating war
Devastation in the Sudanese city of Omdurman -- image via X video screenshot With the passing of the 500th day of the devastating war in...
Michael Laxer
Sep 183 min read
No to the prohibition of Communist ideology in the republics of Central Asia!
The Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan, with the Communist parties of Greece and Mexico, has issued a statement condemning recent attempts...
Michael Laxer
Sep 176 min read
Forests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples. Praying in the Beginning of Hudoq Kawit Ritual in Dayak Bahau...
Michael Laxer
Sep 179 min read
"A historic legacy for a struggle that continues": On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Amílcar Cabral
Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of the PCP at the event -- image via the PCP September 12 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of...
Michael Laxer
Sep 156 min read
Recycling the Discarded
Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work. Image via video screenshot By Damon...
Michael Laxer
Sep 146 min read
Far-Right Endorsements Unmask Democratic Charade
The fight against Trump's authoritarianism, while certainly necessary, is being used as cover to shore up support for a status quo that...
Michael Laxer
Sep 1414 min read
For Socialism and Communism, the struggle continues! - speech of Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of the PCP at Avante!
Image of the rally via the PCP The tour-de-force speech on international and domestic issues given on September 8 by Paulo Raimundo,...
Michael Laxer
Sep 135 min read
At least 196 environmental defenders were murdered in 2023
New Global Witness report documents the violence faced by those resisting extractive industries, with Latin America remaining the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 123 min read
Why the US far right lies about immigrants
Springfield, Ohio’s immigrant influx is a success story, not a scandal. But when powerful people don’t want to share prosperity, they...
Michael Laxer
Sep 114 min read
Climate change in the Arctic is a wake-up call for the Global South
Arctic melting is intensifying, bringing environmental risks and reshaping the geopolitical landscape, writes Felipe Arango García A...
Michael Laxer
Sep 117 min read
Take Cuba off the list of sponsors of terrorism!: Open Letter
Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons From Casa de las Americas in Havana:...
Michael Laxer
Sep 115 min read
The Israelis Are Conducting Scholasticide in Occupied Palestine
Israeli forces destroy Israa University in the Gaza Strip, January 17, 2024 By Vijay Prashad You must drive up a hill to get to Birzeit...
Michael Laxer
Sep 104 min read
The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...
Michael Laxer
Sep 94 min read
How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza
Protest against the Israeli war on Gaza outside the New York Times building, November, 2023 -- image via X By Norman Solomon As the Gaza...
Michael Laxer
Sep 86 min read
Keys to Building Human Bridges to the Past
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...
Michael Laxer
Sep 72 min read
New bombings, hunger, destruction and chaos in Palestine
Over the 334 days of aggression, the deaths are around 41,000 and there are 94,389 injured. These numbers, unfortunately, are growing by...
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