Submitted by intern on
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
Steve Rushton
Follow:
Steve Rushton
-
Icelandic Democracy on the Screen: "Pots, Pans and Other Solutions"
Examining the little island with big direct democracy ideas, the documentary Pots, Pans and Other Solutions tells the story of Iceland’s reaction to the financial crash.
-
Rushton: Poverty in Britain
In Britain, austerity is vastly increasing poverty while the rich are getting richer.
-
Activists Converge on Canary Wharf in London and Proclaim: "They Owe Us"
Hundreds converged on Canary Wharf in London last week to protest the G8 and publicly discuss issues of debt, inequality, corporate tax evasion and climate change.
-
Unconventional Oil and Austerity: The Dual Crises of Our Time
Bank bailouts, tar sands and fracking appear distinctive, yet the forces driving them forward share the same rationale, mindset and tactics.
-
The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
Regulators' complicity in the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal is a weak point for the global banking cartel—which, like Al Capone's network of gangsters, may finally be on the way out.
-
New Shell Oil Laboratory at Oxford Meets Organized Resistance
A coalition of environmental protesters has targeted Shell for co-opting one of the world’s most prestigious universities and demanded an end to Big Oil's pollution of British education.
-
London Exposed: Are the Walls Crumbling Around the World’s Tax Haven Capital?
Secrecy is crucial for tax havens and corporate tax evasion. Without it fraud can be prosecuted, money laundering revealed, corruption calculated and justice applied.
-
Complicit No More: Tar Sands and What to Do About Parasitic Capitalism
The parasitic form of capitalism that is harvesting the tar sands applies the same rationale that is intrinsic to austerity and bank bailouts.
-
In Austerity, London’s Police Are Making Families Homeless
"Save our Homes: Haringey" is a fast growing campaign to resist the Metropolitan Police throwing a community of 21 families out into the street.
-
In Britain, Entrusting Healthcare to the Loan Sharks Who Ate Us
Britain is putting its public services - the vital safety net that we get in return for our taxes, like healthcare and education - in the hands of the least trustworthy and transparent investors imaginable.
Pages
Sign Up
Article Tabs
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Whether Republicans want to be the party of Christianity or the party of worshipping false idols is a question they’ll have to seriously reckon with very soon, unless they want the American electorate to speak for them.
“Storytelling teaches not through instruction, but through imagination and example,” says the Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. “These stories don’t provide direct answers, but rather the ethical tools to navigate and sustain the world.”
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Whether Republicans want to be the party of Christianity or the party of worshipping false idols is a question they’ll have to seriously reckon with very soon, unless they want the American electorate to speak for them.
“Storytelling teaches not through instruction, but through imagination and example,” says the Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. “These stories don’t provide direct answers, but rather the ethical tools to navigate and sustain the world.”
Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
Posted 6 days 19 hours ago
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
Posted 6 days 18 hours ago
