Subjects Archives: Media

CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.

Under Trump the U.S. is moving towards the centralization of power in the executive branch while its Southern neighbor, despite the flaws, is going in an opposite direction.

The letter—addressed to the Association of University Heads in Israel, the Board of Academic Public Colleges, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Academics for Israeli Democracy—is a reaction to the launching of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.

Mandy Tröger, Richard Maxwell, Ben Scott, Sut Jhally, Des Freedman, Deepa Kumar, and Victor Pickard on Robert W McChesney

This entertaining Wes Anderson satire on imperialist scheming combines a slightly weak plot with clever characterisation but is mysterious in its intention and timing, finds Lucy Nichols.

The Classroom Is a Battleground Teaching U.S. history in a public high school today is a subversive act. In the face of mounting attacks on education, educators like me are caught between the curriculum we are allowed to teach and the truth students desperately need to understand. It is no exaggeration to say that the […]

CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s aid blockade.

It has been five years since police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in the streets of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.

The Venezuelan youth has faced special hardships under the U.S. blockade. The new parliament could help.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard University Thursday informing the school’s administration that she was revoking its ability to enroll international students under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Amidst the uproar of news pouring in about the genocide in Gaza, the news of the martyrdom of Shaima and her family in the Nuseirat area of the Gaza Strip passes as if nothing happened, as if she were just a number added to a list of numbers.

Many critics of Microsoft’s outsized role in Israel’s war argue that when a foreign state and its allies in Silicon Valley can paralyze an international court with the click of a button, it’s not just Gaza under siege, it’s in our institutions, our tech, and our sovereignty.

Dr. Brown said the museum had previously asked to keep the items permanently. “Now, all of a sudden, you can have it back,” he said. “There was no conversation. Just an email.”

Student protestors across the country are adapting their strategies to Trump’s crackdown on the pro-Palestine movement, but it’s safe to say the activism is not slowing down.

One hundred years after his birth, 60 years after his assassination, Malcolm X is synonymous globally with revolutions and all forms of militant struggle by exploited and oppressed people.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a judicial doctrine that for years shielded law enforcement officers from civil liability in police shooting cases by allowing courts to assess force based only on the final moments before an officer pulled the trigger.

Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about ‘white genocide’, revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it.

The latest season of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian hit series Black Mirror reflects a world shattered by capitalism, argues Lucy Nichols.

The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming “persecution”—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still controlling most of the country’s land and resources decades after apartheid allegedly ended.