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According to philosopher Susan Neiman, the Left abandons the concept of good and evil at our own peril. If we refuse to use such morally freighted language, we concede it entirely to people who will use it for immoral ends.

On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living.

Mitchell Abidor, author of Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, responds to his critics.

Plenty of contemporary comedy gazes upon American stupidity and concludes that Americans are stupid. The Chapo Trap House anthology Chunks suggests instead that people behave strangely because the world around them has become so strange.

Intelligence agencies like the CIA have been cultivating ties with universities for decades. They use money and influence to co-opt research and foster a benign image of their role at the expense of academic independence and freedom.

Florida’s coastal residents know to brace for storm surge, but during 2024’s Hurricane Milton, it was inland communities that suffered some of the greatest flooding. It took three weeks for water to recede from some neighborhoods, remembered Polk County Commissioner Becky Troutman. Her community, along Central Florida’s busy I-4 corridor, is among the nation’s fastest-growing […]

** Please donate to help cover the costs of Ivanna Khrapko and Khrystyna Levchenko’s visits to the UK and our campaigning around TUC Congress here ** On 16 September TUC Congress, the conference representing the vast majority of trade union members in the UK, voted unanimously for the motion from the National Union of Mineworkers … Continue reading TUC Congress votes unanimously to reaffirm solidarity with Ukraine

Polanski’s Claim and Two Documents from 1979

by Brett Wilkins

Citing the 70% depopulation of Gaza, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed to “finish the job” of what he called Palestinian “migration”—a euphemism, say critics, for ethnic cleansing.

by Franklin Frederick

Meet Me in St. Louis The Dream of White Supremacy   Meet Me in St. Louis premiered on November 22, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri. The New York premiere took place a few days later, on November 28. It was the first hit from MGM’s musical department, headed since 1940 by Arthur Freed, the writer of some of the best-known songs in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, who would go on to produce some of the most memorable films of those decades as well. It was Arthur Freed who acquired the copyrights to a series of stories […]

by Logan McMillen

The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil. Now it’s attempting to starve the Cuban people, targeting the country’s capacity to grow, process, and import food — unless it buys from US corporations.

by Brian Kaller

Hot composting offers a faster way to turn household and garden waste into useful soil. Also known as Berkeley composting, the method relies on heat-generating aerobic bacteria, supported by a careful balance of carbon- and nitrogen-rich materials. With proper preparation and regular turning, a compost pile can reach temperatures high enough to destroy weed seeds and many plant diseases, while processing organic waste in weeks rather than months. Brian Kaller explains the principles behind hot composting, the materials and ratios involved, temperature management, and possible uses for the heat generated. The method also offers practical benefits for reducing household waste and fossil-fuel use.

by Rahul Banerjee

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s target of 10 million medical tourists a year won’t create new capacity in Indian healthcare, it will pull capacity out of a public system that’s already short on it

We republish below the policy passed by the Scottish Green Party at its 2023 Autumn Conference. The party is affiliated to and works with Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland, and its co-leader Ross Greer is one of USCS’s sponsors. You can contact USCS, and via it Green Ukraine Solidarity activists in Scotland, at uscscotland@gmail.com. For the … Continue reading The Scottish Green Party supports Ukraine

"Crappy ideas don't have to be forgotten to be abandoned"

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist internationalism they saw as permanent has now crashed and burned.

It used to be that Americans turned to GoFundMe to pay off their medical bills in a dysfunctional, privatized health care system. Now they’re doing it just to afford groceries.

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget that AI is already killing people, as it is increasingly used to direct weapons systems with minimal human oversight.

Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. Ahead of Climate Week NYC, Inside Climate host Jake Bolster speaks to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and asks why so many Democrats are leaning away from climate messaging at a time when the fossil fuel industry’s influence is dramatically […]