Three US journalists abducted and detained by Israel in international waters in October while covering Gaza-bound aid flotillas claimed they experienced beatings, humiliation, and US government indifference during a November 3 panel co-hosted by Freedom...
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Not so long ago, K-movies and TV dramas were considered cool, even thought-provoking. That was before their breakthrough into the global mainstream, when ideas were typed into laptops in corner coffeehouses in Seoul by young...
In February 2025, the Principality of Liechtenstein, a microstate twenty-five kilometers long and twelve kilometers wide that is wedged between Switzerland and Austria, proudly celebrated the eightieth birthday of its reigning prince, Hans-Adam II. This...
In 1968, British Conservative Enoch Powell was dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet after what became known as his “Rivers of Blood” speech. In it, Powell recounted a conversation with an “ordinary working man,” who, he...
On Tuesday, November 18, I was meant to address a meeting at Berlin’s Karl Liebknecht Haus, headquarters of left-wing party Die Linke. There I was supposed to speak about the flotillas in solidarity with Gaza,...
America’s system of elite impunity is more complex than the old George Carlin joke about a club with member benefits. The system has unstated rules that we learned a lot about recently, thanks to the (momentary) political...
On September 6, Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani packed a public school auditorium in Brooklyn. When asked what to do to make their vision of politics successful, Zohran answered, “Join DSA.” As those paying attention...
Days after ExxonMobil began pressing the Supreme Court to give corporations a First Amendment right to hide pollution, tech giant RealPage filed a federal lawsuit asserting that artificial intelligence companies have the same constitutional right...
The announcement of a Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) and huge investments between Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is being hailed as a milestone. Prime Minister Mark Carney is using this development to...
December 1 is World AIDS Day. Every year, people around the world remember the epidemic as a medical and moral tragedy, a time of heroic patients and long-awaited medical breakthroughs. But the economic story —...
In October 2017, the tiny country of Montenegro was abuzz. Nestled in the mountains along the Adriatic coast and with a population of merely 620,000, it’s a place that has been overlooked by many. Formerly...
It has been widely reported that the US tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently gave a series of rambling lectures to a private audience in San Francisco in which he laid out his apocalyptic reading of...
