Category: Thinking Politically

In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, and, above all, a web of international complicity. It is a colony in the full Marxist sense of the term: a territory exploited, dominated, and manipulated…

A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth. Anti-imperialists, socialists, and peace and justice communities across Africa and the world are inspired by the newly federated Alliance of Sahel States and…

The truth is that the all charter school district is a giant failure that even corruption rampant New Orleans is struggling to hide.

AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT sector of the population is almost never recognized in the so-called culture wars over book banning.

Trump and RFK Jr.’s anti-vax crackdown is driving Americans across state lines—and making some pay out of pocket.

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.

The tech-industry bestowed name, “Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, is a head-fake; there is no intelligence, just algorithms.

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission.

The government of Qatar slammed Israel for a “cowardly” attack in violation of international law on Tuesday, an assassination attempt which targeted members of Hamas’ negotiating team in the capital city of Doha who had gathered to discuss a new Gaza ceasefire proposal put forth by US President Donald Trump.“The whole point was to gather…