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266 to 0: Canadian Parliament Says China Is Committing Genocide

Canada's House of Commons delivered an uncontested rebuke to Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party by declaring that the Chinese state is committing a ...

A Powerful Moment for Palestinian Unity

Benjamin Netanyahu’s days as a free man are numbered.His opponents in the Knesset are conspiring to end his criminal 12-year premiership (the longest ...

Amazon Prime Won't Let You Go? Time to Break Free

If you've ever made the mistake of becoming a member of Amazon Prime, you should already be familiar with how painstaking it is to cancel your members...

America at the Edge of Autocracy

In an established autocracy — like Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, or Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia — it is nearly imposs...

America, Defiled

Four dead, the U.S.'s democratic reputation indelibly sullied, and its hapless political class unable to rally itself to take up even elementary justi...

An "intergalactic memorial carnival" for David Graeber

"This is an invitation to come together across the world for a memorial carnival in the spirit of the one and only, David Graeber, who just left us so...

Another Failed State

It was only a matter of time. Graft, corruption, and negligence had left 2,750 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate lying unchecked for 6 years i...

Are We Plunging Into a New Dark Age?

Plagued by climate change–induced disasters, political turmoil, and the worst pandemic in a century, the world barely noticed when the United Nations ...

Art or Insult?

Vice recently ran an article in which photographs of Cambodians disappeared by the genocidal Khmer-Rouge regime were colored and altered to appear as ...

As hundreds of thousands die, billionaires rake in riches

Amid the global pandemic of coronavirus that has seen over a million dead and millions more out of work, the wealth of the world's richest has reporte...

Belarus

On Monday, masked men snatched Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova off the streets of Minsk, stuffed her into an unmarked minivan, and drov...

Biden Won. What's Next for the Left?

The greater of two evils has been ousted. That's reason enough to breathe a long-held sigh of relief. But for the next four years, America will be stu...

Big Corruption at the Big Banks

Between 1999 and 2017, the world's biggest banks filed over 2,000 "suspicious activity reports" with American federal regulators.

Big Oil wants YOU to buy more plastic

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, and as climate-change anxieties increase by the day, oil and gas are facing record-low demand.

Can Universal Values Survive in the People's Republic?

In his book Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique, Xu [Jilin] gives a wide-ranging analysis of China’s recent history. His main point is that Ch...

Capsule history of the 21st century

I don't want to get to 2050, when Elon Musk and his libertarian chums are eating dog food on Mars, and then for them to look back on Earth and see tha...

Conversation Interrupted

Studies have shown that people who can see their phones can't concentrate on the live conversation they're having, even if they never touch the phone....

Could he be the man who heals America?

Joe Biden. Could he be the man who heals America?

COVID-19 Strikes the President. What Now?

After months of downplaying the threat of the virus that has killed over 200,000 Americans (and, tragically, counting), the president and first lady h...

Eat the Rich

People have been told all their lives that this economy is inevitable and indispensable, and that if they just give it free rein it will ultimately wo...

From hate-mail to hashtags

That's only one of hundreds of similar messages which have made their way into our inbox since we began our campaign for the White House Siege.

Fuck You, Bezos!

Jeff’s no longer the richest person on Earth: he recently had to settle for a paltry second-place position behind French silver-spooner Bernard Arnaul...

Google is watching. Here's what it knows about you

In 2018, an Irish technologist named Dylan Curran downloaded the information Google had collected about him. All in all, Curran found, the corporation...

History Weeps: The Ugliness of Trump's America

The first presidential debate of the 2020 election was possibly the ugliest in the tradition's 60-year existence.

History's Largest Protest Just Happened . . . and Farmers Led the Charge

November 25th marked the largest protest in human history — over ten times the size of demonstrations that erupted in the wake of George Floyd's murde...

How Much Does It Pay to Propagandize on Behalf of Tyrants?

What do the dictatorial Mugabe regime, the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, the Sudanese junta, and now Myanmar's genocidal military government have in ...

In Hong Kong, Beijing Asserts Its "Might Is Right"

The law of the Mainland is coming down hard on long-suffering Hong Kong. In July, teenage pro-independence activist Tony Chung became the first politi...

It May Get Worse.

The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals. Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year.Wildfire smoke in U.S. exposes millions to...

Its Sculptor Has Died, But "Charging Bull" Lives On

Though Arturo Di Modica has left us, his most famous artwork lives on — a brazen idol to be honored and worshiped amid the modern world's financial Ba...

Keystone XL Is Dead. Now What?

In his first day in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden did much to undo his predecessor's atrocious legacy on climate-change, rejoining the (inadequ...

Napoleon: Cancel or Commemorate?

On the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s death, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the empreror’s reinstatement of slavery in 1802, saying it wa...

Navalny's Beginning a Hunger Strike — So Should We

On Wednesday, imprisoned activist Alexei Navalny began a hunger strike to protest the unfair treatment he has received as an inmate of a penal colony ...

No Cease-fire for Apartheid in Israel, No Cease-fire for Injustice Worldwide

Since the cease-fire, the mainstream media has all but gone silent on the suffering in Gaza. But don’t take that silence for a resolution. Despite the...

Our Planet Is Out of Options. Does Anyone Care?

The earth is getting measurably hotter, each year breaking records set the year before, while Arctic sea ice continues to thin. Wildfires are growing ...

Pandemic or Not, Capitalism Marches Onwards toward Techno-barbarism

As Western Nations continue to grapple with the pandemic, it is apparent that Covid-19 has landed the death blow to the Neoliberal Capitalism that has...

Pandemics and plagues have a way of shifting the course of history

... and not always in a manner immediately evident to the survivors. In the 14th Century, the Black Death killed close to half of Europe’s population....

R.I.P amigo

What advice would you give younger creatives, especially those who have been active and engaged during this time?

Remembering the many lives of our friend David Graeber

David Graeber, the anarchist intellectual whose early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement, died Wednesday, Septe...

Robin-Hood Redditors Are Sinking Wall-Street Hedge Funds

Whether incensed or inspired by Wall Street's misdeeds, the memers of r/WallStreetBets are taking up the Occupy torch.

So let's keep playing

Times like this, indeed. 2020 is a rupture year. Local markets are imploding, economies are in the brink of collapse. The spectacle of politics seems ...

Social Media Is Silencing the Voices of Oppressed Palestinians

Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are cracking down on voices decrying Israel's vicious oppression of Palestinians, shutting down accounts and silencing...

Subversive Smiley Cracks Singapore’s Ridiculous Facade

Think of a symbol of resistance. What comes to mind? A Guy Fawkes mask, a raised fist, an anarchist circle-A? How about a smiley face?

Succumbing To Barbarity

"Kill all you see, whether children or adults." That's what Myanmar's military allegedly commanded as it waged a coordinated campaign of ethnic violen...

Susan Rice

"As a lifelong Democrat and a senior official in the Obama administration, naturally I’d like to see a Democrat in the White House. But far more is at...

Symptom of a sick planet.

Climate change is causing natural disasters to occur more often and wreak more devastation than at any time in recorded history: hurricanes, tornadoes...

Terrorism Is as American as Apple Pie

Gruesome spectacles of violence. Belief in ethno-religious supremacy. Fundamentalist notions of social order. Preoccupations with purity and vengeance...

The Activist Lion Roaring in Putin's Ear

"Respected citizens, the current event is illegal. We are doing everything to ensure your safety," said a police officer, lying through his teeth over...

The Con He Rode In On

Amid the sensory swirl of the airplane hangar in Freeland, Michigan, the leader slow-walks toward us, fist pumping slowly, with that trademark pondero...

The Hypocrisy of Bilious Barr and Pompous Pompeo

American statesmen have breathed a lot of fire over the passage of Hong Kong's draconian, dissent-crushing national-security law. Secretary of State M...

The Internet Splits In Two

The internet is being torn into two irreconcilable halves. One half operates under the watchful eye of the Chinese state; the other revolves around Si...

The Monster Fox News Created

Turning on their maker, Trump supporters chanted "Fox News sucks" and "Shame on Fox" outside a vote-counting facility in Arizona.

"The Social Dilemma" director hopes to spark a movement

A new report from the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel deems that Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook have abusively wielded their monopoly...

Trump is infected . . . with xenophobia

Just before it was revealed that he (and many other Republicans) had been infected with coronavirus, President Trump announced that he aims to limit t...

Uncovered Anarcast: Anarchist Spirits

From Occupy to Antifa, why are anarchist ideas and tactics appealing to an ever broader, younger audience?

Unprime Day

Prime Day, Amazon’s yearly deal-hawking hoopla for its swindled subscribers, begins on June 21. And there’s never been a better occasion to cancel you...

US Debt Will Soon Exceed Size of Entire Economy

American national debt is set to reach levels not seen since World War II.

We Must Not Abandon Myanmar!

As the remaining shreds of Myanmar's long-troubled democracy disintegrate, atrocities are being committed against civilians. But where is the rest of ...

Welcome to the Machine

Google "social media is ..." Depending on where you live, your search might return vastly different auto-completed results. Fun. Cool.

What Does JPMorgan Call Its Crime? "A Little Razzle-Dazzle to Juke the Algos"

The case against JPMorgan Chase for manipulating precious-metals and Treasury markets has many of the usual features. On September 29th it admitted to...

When memes inspire terrorism

Earlier this year, the FBI elevated a new threat to its list of top-level priorities, alongside ISIS: racist violence.

Who Will Win the Planetary Endgame?

Our world is being carved into two spheres of influence. For now, those spheres are limited merely to economic competition. But as the the tension mou...

Why Don’t We Put the Head of the Sackler Family in Jail for Life?

For two decades Purdue Pharma peddled the falsehood that OxyContin, the painkiller at the heart of the deadly opioid epidemic, was safe and non-addict...

Will Autocracy Die or Thrive?

We're caught up in a pivotal moment. The American people await the president's concession. The country — along with the rest of the world — could be t...