Capitalocene: How Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis
The current climate crisis emerged out of a specific set of historical and economic factors which have maintained capitalist accumulation and class inequalities to this day. Jason W. Moore, geographer...
View Article“Killing People Around the Clock”: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti & Muhammad Shehada...
Israel’s war on Gaza hit the six-month mark on Sunday, a grim milestone. Over 33,100 Palestinians have been killed, including 14,000 children. Nearly 76,000 have been injured, and tens of thousands are...
View ArticleIsrael’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation
President Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies in Gaza a “mistake” and urged Israel to call for a temporary ceasefire to allow in more aid in a televised interview on...
View Article‘If We Burn’: The Limits of Mass Protest with Vincent Bevins
The 2010s were a decade of revolt. From Athens to Atlanta, Santiago to Seoul, a global wave of protest brought masses of people into confrontation with the status quo, demanding an end to...
View ArticleZionism Killed the Jewish-Muslim World
Born in Israel, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, a filmmaker, curator, and academic, rejects the identity of Israeli. Before becoming an Israeli at age nineteen, her mother was simply a Palestinian Jew. For much...
View ArticleSolidarity Forever: Building Movements Amid Today’s Crises
“None of us benefit from a burning planet,” says activist and documentarian Astra Taylor on this week’s Deconstructed. Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix join Ryan Grim to discuss their new book,...
View Article“Models and Bottles” Clubs’ Extravagance and Exploitation
Much of the discussion of the massive economic inequality that characterizes American society in the twenty-first century stays in the realm of abstract, bloodless statistics. We don’t often get much...
View ArticleKidnapping of Jorge Glas: US-Backed Oligarchy in Ecuador Locks Up Its Critics
Mexico has cut all diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Ecuadorian police officers forcibly raided the Mexican Embassy in Quito and detained former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas. Glas had been...
View ArticleIs Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from...
The Middle East is bracing for the possibility of regional war after Iran responded to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus with a major drone and missile attack Saturday. The attack...
View ArticleInterview With Asad Abukhalil on Gaza, Hezbollah and the Decline of Zionism
Joining me on today’s program, Professor Asad Abukhalil grew up and studied political science in Beirut and later received his Doctorate in the United States. He’s taught at multiple US universities...
View ArticleYanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down...
As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that...
View ArticleProject 2025: A Warning For Labor
The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such...
View ArticleIran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a...
View ArticleNo Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
View ArticleNobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for...
View ArticleRemembering one year of war in Sudan | The Take
April 15 marks one year since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its paramilitary rival the Rapid Support Forces. The war has caused the largest displacement crisis in the world...
View ArticleFired by a German University for Solidarity with Palestine
The University of Cologne canceled a guest professorship with the philosophy professor from The New School. In this interview, she speaks about Germany dividing between “Good Jews” and “Bad Jews,” her...
View ArticleAbolition Is a Project of Human Liberation That Must Be Ongoing
One of the most common misconceptions about prison abolition is that it’s “unrealistic.” However, in Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché’s new book, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement...
View ArticleIsra Hirsi On the Resilience of Columbia University’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
On Wednesday, students at Columbia University and its women’s college, Barnard, pitched tents on the lawns at the school’s campus commons. They planned to stay until Columbia divested from companies...
View ArticleHistoric Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes Monday as campus protests over the war in Gaza enter a sixth day. The protests have swelled after the school administration called in the police to clear...
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