The Pentagon cannot be pleased with the Washington Post. That’s because the Post has just disclosed a mountain of previously secret documentary evidence within the military showing that the Pentagon has been intentionally lying for years about the “progress” that it was making with its forever war in Afghanistan. While the Pentagon has been publicly More
In this new century, there are a daunting number of important issues which are to be confronted if we are to progress as a nation. Each must be addressed thoroughly and energetically. But in order to accomplish the collective goals of our society, we must first address how we deal with issues. We must reexamine [...]
Congress’s first round of impeachment hearings wound up largely focused on whether President Trump had offered a quid pro quo for receiving a favor from Ukraine, i.e. Trump would release held up military aid and other signs of US support only after Ukraine investigated a particular company that employed Joe Biden’s son, and the former More
To impeach or not to impeach. A lot of decent voters don’t know what to think. Kansas is no exception, but Kansas has a number of exceptional role models for our troubled times, leaders who demonstrated that it’s okay to change one’s mind in politics. In fact, it’s a mark of true character. Changing Sides: Emporia’s More
The two-week marathon of the annual UN climate conference is underway in Madrid, and the world’s expectations have perhaps never been lower. The Amazon is burning and unprecedented storms are raging worldwide, but the world’s climate diplomats are still mostly talking business-as-usual. Never mind that this year’s 25th Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN More
The Monday, December 9th hearings were another repetition of the facts by Democrats and the ignoring of them by the trumpists. The hearings began with a so-called silent protest by the GOP. Despite this misappropriation of a popular tactic by the right wing, one has to admit it’s nice when they keep their mouths shut. More
The US House of Representatives marked a milestone on November 6, 2019, as it decided to report out articles of impeachment on Trump. But there’s a bigger picture to consider. The impeachment represents a new stage in the political ‘food fight’ between the two wings of the political-economic elite in the USA. It also represents More
China’s experiment with socialism was chaotic and failed to produce the much-desired transition to development and prosperity. When the country broke with socialism and cautiously ventured into market-led development in the countryside in the late 1970s, China was one of most equal societies on earth. It was also quite poor, with over 30 percent of More
Summit anniversaries are not usually this abysmally interesting. While those paying visits to Watford, England on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are supposedly signatories to the same agreement, a casual glance would have suggested otherwise. This was a show of some bickering. France, never the most comfortable member, More
My personal impression of Canada is that of a tattered nation where social cohesiveness based on equality of all citizens in the eyes of the law and within our political system, and with a common-good agenda, has been in continuous decline since the post war years of the 1950’s. The sheer genius of universal health More
Hope is the fuel upon which working-class movements for social change draw their core strength. But hope divorced from solid organizing leads no-where. So, if we are to continue to propel our class forward it is vital that we learn the full lessons of how our sweetest victories are seized from the hands of our More
One of the enduring myths connected to the Vietnam War is that the U.S. military could have won the war if the politicians and protestors back in Washington didn’t somehow handicap the generals. When George H. W. Bush launched the first Gulf War in 1990, for instance, he said that “this will not be another More
Many wilderness advocates would be surprised to learn that some well-known conservation organizations that purport to protect wild nature, actually facilitate the destruction of wild nature. Specifically, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, The Wilderness Society and the Montana Wilderness Association, via the “Gallatin Forest Partnership” (GFP), support mechanized transportation and resource extraction for many of the More
Regeringen fortæller os nu helt åbenlyst, at de ikke respekterer forsvarsforbeholdet. De er klar over at de ikke kan få et ja til at få det afskaffet ved en folkeafstemning, og i en pressemeddelelse fra Udenrigsministeriet siger de nu direkte, at de “tager forsvarsforbeholdet med forbehold” og vil støtte den militære oprustning i Europa gennem [...] 
It’s midday outside a taxi office in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, and a man who is still out from the night before is talking about politics. The temperature hovers around five degrees and he’s wearing a grey t-shirt and washed out jeans. He looks jaded. “I’m not fucking voting, there’s no point.” The man, who doesn’t [...] Valget i Storbritannien er lige om hjørnet. Det er et ideologisk valg mellem to helt forskellige politiske projekter i et splittet klassesamfund.
Jakob Ruggaard fra Radioaktivs europapolitiske podcast Et spøgelse går gennem Europa interviewer ekspert i politisk økonomi og kender af Storbritannien Rune Møller Stahl om perspektiverne i det forestående britiske valg.
Indlægget Et spøgelse går gennem [...]
“To be a red in the summer of 1919 was worse than being a Hun in the summer of 1917,” wrote John Dos Passos in 1919, his novel of the war years. The nation was war-weary as the year began, still reeling from the deadly influenza — the “Spanish flu.” It yearned and deserved “normalcy,” [...]
I højreekstremistiske medier cirkulerer der for tiden et fotografi af en gruppe politifolk, som poserer foran en graffiti: ”Stoppt Ende Gelände” sammen med et symbol fra det højreekstremistiske miljø i den østtyske by [...]
To live in the United States as a person with disabilities is to encounter daily acts of abuse and oppression. Working disabled people can legally be paid less than $1 an hour under federal law, an appalling exemption to already inadequate minimum-wage standards. Disabled people on Social Security Income (SSI) must report any income, including [...]
When Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour manifesto in Birmingham last month, he referred to it as “a manifesto of hope.” If you live in the UK in 2019, and earn less than, say . . . £80k a year, then hope must feel in short supply. A decade of Tory rule has seen a fall in living [...]
I lørdags blev der indgået en tre-årig samarbejdsaftale mellem Solidaritet og Enhedslisten. Mikael Hertoft, kontaktperson mellem Enhedslisten og Solidaritet Efter[...]
Indlægget Solidaritet og Enhedslisten underskriver samarbejdsaftale blev først udgivet på
Lone Aburas er aktuel med sin første digtsamling: ’Den sorte bog’. Lole Møller, Rød+Grøn Er det fint og litterært nok[...]
Indlægget Kulturstafetten: Var du turist i slummen i går? blev først udgivet på
Hvordan igangsætter vi den nødvendige udvikling i og uden for Enhedslisten i de kommende år? Lone Degn, Finn Sørensen, Line[...]
Indlægget Debat: Sådan bevæger vi os fremad blev først udgivet på
Arbejderidrætsklubberne opstod som en modvægt til de borgerlige klubber i de store byer. Mange af arbejderklubberne hed Frem eller Fremad.[...]
Indlægget Når idrætten er en kamp for demokrati blev først udgivet på
This election campaign has underlined critical questions about how polling works, and whether the statistical models that underpin it are still able to accurately predict electoral behaviour. If our polling methods work, Labour is heading for a defeat of massive proportions on 12 December. There is, however, increasing evidence that the way in which polling is [...] Staten blåstempler manglen på ligestilling i kulturen, fortæller musiker Stine Liebman, der som kvinde straffes ekstra hårdt for at spille[...]
Indlægget Problemet er strukturelt blev først udgivet på
Et lille spillested endte i kæmpe mediestorm, da det besluttede at bruge 2019 på at give kvinder bedre plads i[...]
Indlægget Da Forbrændingen blev feministisk blev først udgivet på
I ’Olivengren’ fortælles og digtes om det kurdiske folks lidelser. Ibrahim Benli, medlem af Enhedslistens Kurdistan-solidaritetsgruppe Hvad kan en 17-årig[...]
Indlægget De har magt, men vi har ret blev først udgivet på
Det forståelsespapir mellem Socialdemokratiet, SF, Radikale Venstre og Enhedslisten, som sikrede Mette Frederiksen plads på statsministerposten, varsler medieændringer. Søren Søndergaard,[...]
Indlægget Vigtige medieforhandlinger på vej blev først udgivet på
Over the weekend, Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson published a piece in the New York Times that argues Finland is actually a “capitalist paradise.” The article is a very familiar one to those who keep track of this debate. It notes that Finland has high taxes and a generous welfare state, but then says that [...]
Venstrefløjen skal turde påtage sig lederskab i kulturdebatten og stå fast på, at kultur og kunst har værdi i andet[...]
Indlægget Vi skal insistere på, at kultur har en værdi i sig selv blev først udgivet på
Uret tikker for EU-Kommissionens klimaplan, der skal være præsenteret inden for kommissionens første 100 dage. Men hvad er det egentlig,[...]
Indlægget EU har minimale klimaambitioner blev først udgivet på
Lige nu er EU ved at afgøre hvordan EU-borgere i fremtiden har ret til danske dagpenge. Disse forhandlinger kan ende[...]
Indlægget EU vil harmonisere arbejdsløshedsydelser blev først udgivet på
Den gode nyhedVi får i 2020 den første finanslov i mange år, der mindsker uligheden, styrker velfærden og tager de[...]
Indlægget Måneden der gik blev først udgivet på
Årsmødet i oktober udpegede to vigtige opgaver for partiet i det kommende år: At understøtte og styrke de folkelige bevægelser,[...]
Indlægget Retning: Enhedslisten og bevægelserne skal styrkes i 2020 blev først udgivet på
The working-class port city of Marseille has always had something of an independent streak — and today, that extends to politics. Galvanized by fears of being crowded out by the competition, left-wing activists in this age-old melting pot on the shores of the Mediterranean are setting aside their differences — and working together. Ahead of [...]
I fredags blev et stort flertal i Folketinget enige om en klimalov, der gør Danmark til et af de absolut[...]
Indlægget Klimaloven – Enhedslistens største politiske sejr blev først udgivet på
For months, the names of Michael Horowitz and John Durham have figured in the pounding rhythms of right-wing media in which a heroically afflicted president faces down his perfidious enemies. A steady drumbeat of reports from Fox News, echoed by President Trump and Republican loyalists in Congress, proclaimed these two obscure Justice Department officials would get to the bottom of [...]
Have you noticed? From Hong Kong to Baghdad, Paris to Tehran, 2019 is shaping up to be, as the New York Times dubbed it, “the year of the protest.” Violent—and often deadly—anti-government protests are breaking out throughout the world in an unprecedented fashion, in rich countries as well as poor, as people everywhere are expressing their anger at corrupt, inefficient, [...]
Pernille Frahms ønskeseddel til jul er kort og præcis: "Politikere, der tør kræve højere skat, flere hænder og mere demokrati for ansatte i kommunerne!"
Indlægget Har vi råd? blev først udgivet på
Sunday, Nov. 24, I watched some white media women led by Stephanie Ruhle, a former Bloomberg employee, gush all over Bloomberg’s announcement that he was running for president. When the interviewer asked about Bloomberg’s condoning Stop and Frisk, Ms. Ruhle said that it brought down the crime rate. She probably had black and Latinx men in mind, whom bourgeois feminists [...]
News item: Three rightwing Latin American governments have forced out Cuban doctors working in their countries. Over 8000 of them departed from Brazil in late 2018 and 382 doctors left Ecuador in mid-November, 2019. Some 700 Cuban doctors exited Bolivia after the coup there on November 10. Brazilian President Bolsonaro alleged that Cuban doctors were More
Airedales to deter grizzly bears from coming into camp? This was one of several novel recommendations made at a recent meeting of Yellowstone grizzly bear managers in Cody, Wyoming, during a lively brainstorming session about ways to reduce human-bear conflicts. Another was establishing an academy where citizens could learn from each other by exchanging stories More
On November 29, FBI agents arrested hacker and cryptocurrency developer Virgil Griffith. His alleged crime: Talking. Yes, really. The FBI alleges that Griffith “participated in discussions regarding using cryptocurrency technologies to evade sanctions and launder money.” Griffith, a US citizen who lives in Singapore, gave a talk at conference on blockchain technology in April. Because More
A succession of social upheavals over the last decade has radically realigned political power throughout the world. As a result of these tectonic shifts, what had once been on the furthest fringes of the right has now moved toward the center while the left has been pushed to the margins. “Things fall apart; the centre More
Will the Democrats move to impeach Trump for a narrow brace of violations and accept that the Senate Republicans will keep this outlaw in the White House? Or will they present the Senate with the President’s many proven impeachable offenses, thereby requiring the Senate Republicans, before live national television, in a public trial to defend More
Mohamed Ali infuriates Field Marshal President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt. His waspish, cruel, outrageously funny, solemnly pedantic videos and social media messages transmitted from his self-exile in Spain, mocking the man who overthrew Egypt’s first elected president, even brought demonstrators back on to the streets of Cairo in September. But the 45-year-old actor and More
Sri Lanka is a role model for the dictum of diplomacy being the extension of a country’s national policies. Sri Lanka’s performance must be commended since it also grapples with an unresolved nationality question in which its big neighbor India has historically staked claim as stakeholder, a claim that Sri Lanka cannot brusquely repudiate due More
Recently, I was in Homer, Alaska, to talk about my book The End of Ice. Seconds after I had thanked those who brought me to the small University of Alaska campus there, overwhelmed with some mix of sadness, love, and grief about my adopted state — and the planet generally — I wept. I tried More
State, federal and tribal representatives voted again to slaughter 600-900 Yellowstone Park bison this winter. The agencies and tribes use the less offensive sounding euphemism “cull”. But let’s be honest, what happens is nothing more than butchery done to appease the livestock industry. It is shameful that these agencies and tribes legitimize the annual butchery More
In the United States there was a time in the previous century when a political campaign was waged against “premature antifascists,” namely against members of the socialist left who warned and fought against fascism well before World War II. In the wake of that war, the leading career politicians also worked within a corporate consensus More
Hundreds of letters are pouring into the office of Polish Minister of Health, Lukaz Szumowski, from Polish citizens and people all over the world, responding to Mr Szumowski’s proposition to exponentially raise the officially recognized limit for cell phone emissions. Under the proposed change, new emission levels will be aligned with the introduction of 5G More
The NYT had an article that focused on Buchanan County, Virginia as an example of a left behind area in the United States. The county’s economy had centered on coal. While the discussion implies that its downturn is a recent story, the data presented in the piece shows that most of the decline occurred more More
Let’s bomb Iowa! Or maybe Texas or Michigan or Nebraska . . . Oh wait, I got confused for a second. Those places are part of America and we love them. We would never bomb them. These are places we would bomb: Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, Congo, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama, More
Stort set alle partier fra DF til Enhedslisten samt alle kapitalens lobbyorganisationers lader til at være rørende enige om retningen for det der angiveligt skal løse klimaproblemerne og sænke det danske CO2-udslip med 70 % frem mod 2030. De bakker op om den kommende klimalov og regeringens andre tiltag, som 25 mia kr til en [...] Enhedslistens hovedbestyrelse har godkendt at støtte Solidaritets arbejde, og støtter ifølge aftalen "et venstreorienteret, demokratisk mediehus i Danmark."
Indlægget Solidaritet og Enhedslisten underskriver samabejdsaftale blev først udgivet på
Der er blevet sagt mangt og meget i den sidste uge om det væltede stillads på Tikøbgade. Kom til pressemøde og få opklaret nogle af misforståelserne.
Indlægget 10/12: Fup og fakta om stilladset i Tikøbgade blev først udgivet på
By Liebig34 Tegeler Weg District Court this morning: Activists covered the walls outside the court with colour attacks. Before the start of the trial, there was a bomb threat. The defendents were taken forcefully away by the cops shortly before the start of the trial. Soon after, the courtroom moved location to a much smaller […]
Indlægget Nipples, Blood [...]
Uber, that most ethical of ride-hailing companies, is in hot water once again. This time it isn’t for slashing drivers’ pay so low they can barely survive or having an institutionalized culture of sexism — I’m sure its PR department only wishes it could throw out the canned lines it has prepared for such situations. [...]
On November 21, hundreds of thousands of Colombians poured into the streets all over the country. A diverse coalition including labor unions, indigenous organizations, the student movement, and LGBT activist groups had called for a paro nacional, a general strike, in the country. The outpouring of citizens defied all expectations. The streets of the main [...]
UDSENDELSEN D. 7. december 2019 I denne uge er der virkelig sket meget på den politiske scene, og vi prøver at nå rundt om både svindelsager i forsvaret, en ny Klimalov og Finanslov, og Natos 70 årsdag, og Julian Assange, stifteren af Wikileak. Først i udsendelsen taler vi den nye skandale sag i den offentlige [...] There’s no doubting the importance of Friday’s strikes in France. The actions on December 5 provided a powerful rebuke to Emmanuel Macron’s assault on pensions — and showed that millions of people are prepared to resist the planned dismantling of France’s welfare state. Reflected in local mobilizations in hundreds of towns and cities across France, [...]
As Britain faces a crucial general election, its second in two years, one of its most venerable institutions has been busy demolishing what’s left of its reputation. The BBC has long been admired internationally for its well-resourced drama and documentary programs, and respected for the professionalism of its journalism. But its hollowing out by a [...]
Every marathon ends in a sprint. The result of this election will be the culmination not of the six weeks that preceded it, or even the three years since the EU referendum, but the decades of disenchantment and austerity that form its real backdrop. And yet, to win from behind, Labour will have to pull [...] 
Earlier this week, Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists protested against the Labour party by blocking the party’s battle bus. This latest action follows the protests – including hunger strikes – which have been taking place at Labour’s headquarters. XR have also targeted the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, stating that “party politics is not fit to address [...] Late last August, prominent FARC commanders Iván Márquez and Jesús Santrich declared that they would be taking up arms against the Colombian state once again. The announcement signified a partial breakdown of the 2016 peace agreement which was meant to mark the end of the decades-long conflict. The vocal cynics within Colombia’s hawkish right wing [...]
The National Health Service is at risk of being eroded and privatized if Boris Johnson and Donald Trump get their way. Opening a service already underfunded and riven with privatization to a further round of exploitation by the vultures of the US pharmaceutical industry could really be the moment that the NHS as its been known [...]
Mona har været i systemet siden 1985, og har mærket systemet ændre sig siden dengang, hvor det hed 'bistandshjælp'
Indlægget “Et systematisk pres”. Jobcentrets Ofre II blev først udgivet på
Libaneserne har protesteret i snart to måneder. Men hvad demonstrerer de for? Er det alle libanesere? Og hvorfor? Hør Sune Haugbølle, professor MSO ved RUC og Libanon-kender give sin analyse af protesten, der indeholder både et opgør med sekterisme og en fejlslagen økonomi - samt en førstehåndsberetning fra protesternes udbrud ved arabisk-studerende på Købehavns Universitet, Nick Soltani.
Indlægget Yazdanis [...]
The decommodification of health insurance was always an anomaly in Elizabeth Warren’s liberal reform agenda. After all, Warren famously called herself a “capitalist to my bones.” But after months of cryptic rhetoric, she has reconciled this inconsistency with a health care plan that won’t get us closer to achieving Medicare for All. Warren’s recently unveiled [...]
I work with some of the most vulnerable people in our society and have done for some time. These women come from every race, religion, walk of life and economic status, united only in their experiences of abuse. There is no ‘face’ to gender-based violence because it truly does impact everyone. With one in four [...] Baltic Pipe-projektet binder sig op på forsyningen af norsk gas til resten af Europa. Men er der overhovedet fremtidsperspektiver i investeringen?
Indlægget Hvor længe holder gassen i den norske ballon? blev først udgivet på
Folkebevægelsen mod EU har snart været på banen i 50 år, og holder fanen højt som en klar modstandsbevægelse, der vil have Danmark ud af EU. I årene der er gået, er det parlamentariske billede til gengæld flyttet til en omfavnelse af Unionen, alle partier i Folketinget vil bevare EU-medlemskabet. Folkebevægelsen er derfor så vigtig [...] Scott Morrison’s Pentecostal faith claims to channel the religion of Christ’s time, in which God’s presence was immediately felt and people spoke in tongues. Combining a postmodern obsession for feeling with the dogmatism of prosperity gospel, it is a completely unselfconscious anachronism. This self-centered admixture can sanction any evil. On December 4, it did. Morrison’s [...]
There are two essential facts that every single Labour supporter must grasp about the few days until the election: 1. In 2017, more than one third of all Labour voters only made up their minds to vote Labour in the last week of the campaign. 2. In 2017, face-to-face conversations were second only to the [...] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rammed through eight of President Donald Trump's lifetime judicial picks in just three days this week, accelerating the far-right court takeover that Vox's David Roberts warned is "absolutely going to hamstring efforts to make the U.S. into a responsible, civilized country, for as long as we live."
The latest slew of confirmations, according to Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur, [...]
Yesterday, an eighty-three-year-old retired farmer named Merle Gorman addressed Joe Biden at a New Hampton, Iowa campaign event. Gorman rightly questioned his son Hunter’s qualifications for a lucrative post he once held on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, a job which saw him compensated up to $50,000 some months. (Though Gorman more dubiously [...]
“Breathe!” The contemporary white-collar worker is constantly exhorted. Capitalism drives us crazy and makes us sick. But whatever the malady — anxiety, hypertension, or trouble focusing at work — “mindfulness” is touted as the cure. On November 21, at McNally Jackson’s bookstore in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport, Jacobin’s Liza Featherstone talked with Ron Purser, a [...]
On September 22, a small group of civil activists in Iraq called for a protest on October 1. They had no idea the kind of rebellion they would spark. The call echoed through various social media platforms, in part inspired by Egyptian businessman Mohamed Ali’s plea for an uprising against Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s corrupt dictatorship. [...]
The electoral dynamics in Scotland are very different from those in the rest of the UK, and its 59 seats are often decisive in a general election. 2019 will be no different. With the historical infallibility of Labour support in Scotland having long since melted away, this election will hinge on whether Jeremy Corbyn can [...] Enhedslisten fik med i næste års finanslov, at psykiatrien akut får tilført 6oo mio. kr. Pengene skal allerede fra næste[...]
Indlægget Psykiatrien får en akut håndsrækning blev først udgivet på
The upcoming UK general election was billed as the Brexit election, though it’s turning out to be fought over a much wider range of policy issues than expected, including the NHS, welfare, the environment, education, tuition fees, and taxation. Much of this is thanks to Labour’s grassroots campaigning machine, which has brought issues into the [...]
Politiet har i et årti ulovligt gemt på fingeraftryk fra sigtede, men ikke dømte danskere. Nu har justitsministeren besluttet at slette dem.
Indlægget Politiet sletter 33.400 registreringer i fingeraftryks-register blev først udgivet på
Jeremy Corbyn announced on Tuesday that, under a Labour government, schoolchildren would be taught about the injustice and violence of the British Empire. Labour also promised to promote a “new internationalism” and a progressive foreign policy, as outlined in its recent manifesto. In response, the Conservatives claimed it was “staggering” to hear Labour “lecture people” [...]
LØBESEDDEL TIL ERHVERVSSKOLERNE Fra APK, Arbejderpartiet Kommunisterne Det er ikke bare hul i hovedet, at der igen skal spares på erhvervsskolerne. At mulighederne for at få en faglig uddannelse forringes. Der skal skæres på skolepraktik, bonus til erhvervsskolerne for at indgå praktikpladser, praktikcentre, skolehjem og mindre tilskud til de københavnske erhvervsskoler. Det er ikke bare [...] Impeachment is the most under-utilized, but politically potent check on executive power in the Constitution. It’s there for a reason and the authors of our organizational parchment surely envisioned it being used more frequently than once every 60 years. Indeed, impeachment may well be the only defense we have against the rising authoritarian powers of a presidency which seeks to [...]
"Det er afgørende, at vi husker at kritisere kapitalismen frem for den enkelte forbruger", skriver Sofie Lippert om forbrugsræset på 'Black Friday'.
Indlægget Black Friday: et årligt clash med klima- og uligheds-krisen blev først udgivet på
Volden i Iran tager til i regimets forsøg på at knuse opstanden. En revolutionær gruppe socialister beretter fra landet, der "nu må betragtes som en krigszone".
Indlægget Iran: 5 grunde til at kalde protesterne en opstand blev først udgivet på
In the long-running nightmare of the Syrian civil war, the attack at Douma was a déjà vu atrocity with big consequences in Washington. On April 7, 2018, a working-class neighborhood in greater Damascus suffered a chemical attack that killed at least 43 people. Six days later, President Trump ordered a cruise missile attack on a More
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can…Its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. – Dwight Eisenhower. For the first time in decades, passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been delayed due to disagreements between Democrats and Republicans. The disagreements at the center of the delay in Congress are, as usual, partisan in nature: funding for the President’s border wall More
Kamala Harris is out. This makes me almost sad; she was a snarky debater and, for a “moderate,” she wasn’t all that bad. Perhaps her managers ought to have stressed that point: “Better Than Booker” would have been a fine slogan for her to run on. Now, with Harris gone, it falls to that dreadful Obama wannabe to take the lead [...]
I never cease to be amused by the brazen hypocrisy of the dismal, dollar-drenched Goldman Sachs-Citigroup-JP Morgan Chase-Council on Foreign Relations Democrats. Yesterday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Net Worth: $101 million, D-CA) blessed the drafting of Articles of Impeachment against the demented fascist oligarch Donald Trump. She gave the nod in a short oration that cited the Declaration of [...]
A lot of pundit verbiage and Democratic Party internal debate as well is being wasted on the question of whether Trump could be convicted successfully in a Senate currently run by a lickspittle Republican majority afraid of their shadows and devoid of any concern for the fate of Constitutional government. Let’s accept that the 2-plus More
The week began with a few tweets from ignorant congresspeople and the president decrying the supposed unfairness of the proceedings. Pompeo chimed in with a remark that the timing was “unfortunate.” His reasoning was that Trump had important business to take care of in Britain at the NATO meeting. You know, the North Atlantic Treaty More
An abiding myth of UK politics — if viewed through the prism of Westminster — is that the Midlands and the North of England are hotbeds of reaction. Once “Labour heartlands,” they are, so the story goes, ready and waiting to be taken by the Right. All that’s required is for Boris Johnson to don [...]
You’re liable to run into trouble if you try to suggest there is a greater threat to planetary survival than climate change. But there is. It’s called nuclear war. Granted — and thank goodness — climate change is finally all the rage now. Rage has taken over, and rightly so, especially among the young whose More
In 1975, I took a job as a Cobol programmer at Salomon Brothers in New York, mainly on the buzz generated by a N.Y. Times profile of its star block trader Michael Bloomberg. The November 9th article noted that “The single‐minded dedication of Mr. Bloomberg’s pressure‐cooker life goes hand in glove with the aggressive business More
For tens of thousands of years the Arctic’s carbon sink has been a powerful dynamic in functionality of the Earth System. However, that all-important functionality has been crippled and could be permanently severed. According to new research based upon field observations conducted from 2003 to 2017, a large-scale carbon emission shift in the Earth System More
The Warming Planet “The United Nations released an exceptionally bleak report today, which warns that, at the current pace of greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures will rise by as much as 3.9 degrees Celsius (almost 7 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.” – The United Nations Environment Programme report, Nov. 2019 “Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a More
The power of the chemical industry in the United States all but wiped out the US EPA. The politicized department administers laws and regulations that prescribe what it can do. However, in practice, it’s the political appointees that decide what EPA does. Related to this political reality, and knowing the deep roots of industry influence More
In August of this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India suspended Article 370 of the constitution, the provision that granted some level of autonomy to Kashmir. Already heavily policed by Indian soldiers, nearly 40,000 additional troops were deployed to ‘calm’ (read: further oppress) the population following Modi’s repressive and illegal decision. Travel in and More
The Section on Political Science from the South of the University of Havana in Cuba is now working on a project dedicated to the formulation of a theory of truth, in order to respond to the lies that are the foundation of imperialist policies. The lie is fundamental to the historical development of domination. In More
The Battle of Seattle in late November 1999 is, for me, memorable in many ways. For one, I still remember being given a good beating by a policewoman when I tried to prevent her buddies from hauling off the irrepressible Medea Benjamin, then the director of Global Exchange, from a sit-in at the entrance to More
A court case is currently running in France that is of relevance to more than the French. During two weeks to 29 November, Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas is being sued in the Tribunal correctionnel of Paris (a mid-level criminal court) by lawyers representing borrowers of loans denominated in foreign currency. The issue is of More
On Thursday afternoon, the Washington Post sent out a news alert headlined “John Kerry Endorses Biden in 2020 Race, Saying He Has the Character and Experience to Beat Trump, Confront the Nation’s Challenges.” Meanwhile, in Iowa, Joe Biden was also touting his experience. “Look,” Biden said as he angrily lectured an 83-year-old farmer at a campaign stop, “the reason More
The capitalism we grew up in has collapsed. Its democratic mask has become transparent and its social pretensions hollow. In times of crisis, capitalism resembles a wounded predator and attacks indiscriminately. Crises also open up new possibilities for workers’ resistance, but this needs organizations that can sustain it. The last decade has painfully shown that More
An account of a journey from Croatia to Kosovo, by way of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia, and with a detour into Montenegro. This is part III of a series. Serb war memorial outside the Banja Luka train station. To catch the train from Banja Luka to Sarajevo, I had to ride a bus to the edge More
In early November, French president Emmanuel Macron complained that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is experiencing “brain death” as its member states go their own ways, with “no coordination whatsoever of strategic decision-making.” US president Donald Trump’s reply: “Nobody needs NATO more than France.” The two continued their duel over NATO’s future at an More
Since coming to power on November 12, Bolivia’s right-wing coup government, led by interim president Jeanine Añez, has quickly consolidated power and achieved international legitimacy. So far, the Añez government has succeeded in calling elections for 2020; persecuting journalists, political opponents, and human rights activists; and, following two massacres of unarmed, mainly indigenous protesters that More
Denmark is in the news now because of its purported hostility to immigrants. Brooke Harrington, a sociology professor at Dartmouth, published an op ed in the New York Times on Tuesday about how she was nearly carted off to a Danish prison for giving invited guest lectures to the Danish parliament. Danes had tightened up More
It is the era of disavowal of Trump. Long despised by anti-racists and humanists of many stripes, his foreign policy has now even offended US empire builders, leaving us with an overlap of interests between those who wish to scuttle Trump’s overt policies of hate and those who hate to see US power decrease in More
Human Life is a sexually transmitted planetary disease, Climate Change is the disinfectant that will cure it. (I’ll explain myself on this later.) Sam Kean’s concluding 5 paragraphs, on CO2 in the atmosphere, from his book Caesar’s Last Breath (And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around More
Leaders currently in office rarely make an appearance before either the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court. International law remains affixed to the notion that heads-of-state are, at least for the duration of their time in office, safe from prosecution. Matters change once the time in office expires. Be that as it More
Like nearly all Americans of a certain age, I was told in school that tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are gateway drugs — and that is why marijuana should remain illegal. First of all, even if you accept that these three substances are “gateways” to something worse, why is it that adults can use alcohol and More
Gulzar Ahmad Bhat is sitting quietly on a wooden bench at Ghat No. 15 of Dal Lake. Like other shikara rowers in Srinagar, he has seen barely any customers since August 2, when the Jammu and Kashmir government issued an advisory to tourists to leave Kashmir Valley immediately. “That made our future uncertain. In my More
Rome. I have wondered if the German Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus after his defeat and capture by Russians at Stalingrad in February 1943 really changed when as a prisoner of war in Soviet Russia he joined the National Committee For A Free Germany and the anti-Fascist Union of German Officers. Were his words sincere when he More
In India today, if you do not belong to the majority community, your nationalism is suspect. If you do not hail their worship, you are a dissenter. But can a deity represent a nation’s ‘asmita’, self-esteem? Is building a temple nationalism? On November 9, 27 years after mobs destroyed the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the More
In 2016, the democrats and republicans openly agreed on one major vital point in the presidential campaign. Both organizations agreed that the best candidates they could put forward were devious, obfuscating windbags who disingenuously and deliberately used words to give the impression that they gave a rat’s ass about people who were suffering under the More
“How much are these lies going to cost?” asks the nuclear physicist Legasov, as played by Jared Harris in the American series Chernobyl. This HBO series, broadcast a few months ago and based partly on Svetlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl, reveals how the Soviet state tried to cover up the lethal explosion of the More
I’ve gotta give it to Bernie and/or his strategy folks. “Not me, us” is the best political slogan I’ve heard in long time. Seriously, all cynicism aside, those three words sum up what has to happen in order for Bernie to win and, if elected, to serve effectively. It has to be about people power, More
I had long heard of Aldo Leopold but never got around to reading his famous book till my sister put it in my hands a few weeks ago. Any book considered a classic almost certainly has a lot to recommend it, and this is no exception; but before getting around to that, I would point More
“Good evening, my fellow Americans. “I want to speak frankly with you tonight about a reality that the nuclear powers have so far refused to acknowledge as the arms race goes forward unchecked. We have arrived at a point in history when the destructive power and complexity of our weapons systems have become so overwhelming More
It all made sense thanks to a simple trumpian tweet. At first glance it had seemed to be just another in the never-ending tweet storm inflicted on the country by the boy in the Oval Office. Placed in the proper context, however, it makes perfect sense. It started on August 24, 2019, with a proclamation More
Never overestimate the knowledge, intelligence, or courage of elected representatives. Tip O’neill spent 50 years as an elected representative, his last ten years as Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was a lifetime student of the political process and wrote a slim volume All Politics is Local and Other Rules of the Game, in which More
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters, okay?” Donald Trump said at an Iowa campaign rally in January of 2016. That remark gets quoted, mostly by liberals bemoaning the unquestioning loyalty of the president’s stupid supporters, a lot. But there’s another, more interesting, facet of More
Hong Kong is in chaos, with no sign that the protesters will yield on their demands. Mass incarceration and indoctrination of Uyghurs and other Chinese Muslims has become so widely publicized, and evidenced, that Chinese leaders no longer try to deny that a roundup has taken place, though they dispute the numbers. As China extends More
As a practice, I despise both major parties with a passion usually reserved for religious zealotry. But I’m not ashamed, even as a lifelong leftist, to admit that I hate the Democrats most of all. In fact, it’s precisely because I’m a leftist that I hate the Democrats most of all. The only thing worse More
Greta Thunberg was just a little girl in Sweden who learned about the emerging threats to all of us–literally to every human being on Earth and to all species–from anthropogenic (human-caused) climate chaos. More hurricanes with the accompanying destruction from wind, waves, and floods. Melting glaciers and icecaps–rising seas. More than 200 million projected climate More
I’m Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion of the world. I’m black. They never let me forget it. I’m black all right. I’ll never let them forget it. – Miles Davis, A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971) One of the more interesting sub-narratives of Edward Snowden’s recent memoir, Permanent Record, is his discussion of his All-American heritage. More
Indrømmet. Clickbait-overskrifter er ikke en pæn måde at skaffe sig opmærksomhed på, men der var faktisk en antifascist, der gik i Det Kongelige Teater, men hvordan han reagerede overraskede nok mest ham selv. Til gengæld er det overraskende hvordan kulturproduktionen og kulturforståelsen på samme tid har været i udvikling og været stillestående i løbet af […]
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In the late 1990’s I bought an early model Ericsson mobile phone. Traveling around the UK countryside visiting farmers, it seemed quite useful, in spite of the very intermittent signal availability of that time. However, I found the masts which transmitted the signals to be extremely ugly and completely unfitting to the rolling beauty of More
Even movie soundtracks are going green. That’s the color of the vinyl used for the forthcoming double LP of the score of Parasite, the Palme d’Or-winning film of South Korean writer-director Bong Joon-Ho that continues to rake in world-wide box office cash. Its current proceeds of more than a $100 million internationally and nearly $20 More
Class War is Chemical War No one can tell No one can see That thing in your hand As you walk down the street The one you’re unwrapping It looks so banal Like a small piece of gum So, don’t worry — Martin Robin, Jay are birds’ names Right? And how many birds’ll survive the More
MADRID—A few dozen activists had packed a cramped meeting room at the UN climate negotiations, where executives from Shell Oil, Chevron and BP were to speak about their plans to tackle carbon emissions. Just as Shell executive Duncan van Bergen took the mic, the activists stood up solemnly and put their hands over their ears, slowly filing out [...]
In 1871, a fishmonger from the seaside German town of Stralsund renamed his pickled product “Bismarck herrings” after the autocratic chancellor of the day, Otto von Bismarck. Presciently fitting, the name summed up the pioneering social welfare legislation that Bismarck would push the following decade: like herring, the major staple of the German poor, the [...]
Udtalelse fra KVINDER i KAMP Udtalelsen er offentliggjort på Kvinder i Kamps facebookside Forældrebevægelsen #HvorErDerEnVoksen? har ufortrødent og utrætteligt kæmpet for indførsel af minimumsnormeringer siden foråret 2019. Igen og igen har bevægelsen været på gaden og samlet titusinder af mennesker om et samlet krav. Minimumsnormeringer i vuggestuer og børnehaver NU. 1 voksen til max 3 [...] The latest centrist trend in the British commentariat is to claim to be “politically homeless.” The concept rests on the fact that they would rarely vote Conservative but dare not vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, and all energy is spent attacking Labour. The “politically homeless” should have been served by Change UK/The Independent Group, [...]
Uber lost its license to operate in London last week. Transport for London determined that the ride-sharing company hadn’t done enough to tackle fraud on its platform, including fraud committed by drivers who had managed to game Uber’s system, driving under false identities after they had been dismissed or suspended. It’s distressing news for Uber [...]
For the last six months, the people of Hong Kong have risen up to defend their democratic rights against the encroachment of the Chinese state. Their fight has been met with brutal police repression ordered by Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, under pressure from Beijing. After waves of demonstrations, people turned out at the [...]
Emmanuel Macron can think of little else. The last thing he wants is for his planned pensions reform — opposed by the large majority of the population — to provoke a general shutdown. So, with a broad coalition of trade unions planning to strike against this latest measure, for weeks the government has been working [...]
Vi bringer her en oversættelse af essayet “Exiting the Vampire Castle”, skrevet af den engelske socialist og forfatter Mark Fisher. I Teori- & historieredaktionen bestræber vi os på at skabe debat. Det gør man bedst, når man konstruktivt evaluerer, kritiserer og lytter til kritik af vores bevægelser – indadvendt og udadvendt. Fishers tekst fra 2013 […]
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