Africa’s Place in the Radical Imagination
Our internationalist concerns for Africa must necessarily transcend the flattened talking points to which the continent is frequently reduced in our discourses.
Month: November 2018
Howard Zinn’s Life on the Frontlines
Howard Zinn's life was a model for left-wing intellectuals to both produce and take action to transform the world.
The Left Is Already Winning the 2020 Presidential Race
Democrats are embracing bold progressive policies—and setting the terms of the debate—for the first time in 40 years.
Midterms Put Republican Efforts to Suppress Left-Leaning Voters Back in the Spotlight
With the midterm vote tallies so close in Georgia, Ohio, Texas, and Florida, Republican efforts to suppress and purge left-leaning voters are once again in the spotlight. “Voter suppression isn’t only about blocking the vote,” Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said. “It is also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making people worry that their votes won’t count.”
“The Great Tide of Junk”: Garbage Politics in a Throwaway World
Two million plastic bags are distributed per minute worldwide. The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the entire weight of the human beings living upon it. The oceanic Great Pacific Garbage Patch of floating plastic is three times the size of France. Coca-Cola alone sends out 120 billion plastic bottles each year – enough to circle our planet 700 times. We must recognize excessive waste for what it is: a shocking loss of resources at the cost of our environment, engineered by the very system we are living under.
Here’s how neoliberal economists wreak havoc on the global poor while protecting the financial elite
Source: Alternet
On December 1, Mexico will have a new president—Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He will take over the presidency from the lackluster Enrique Peña Nieto, whose administration is marinated in corruption. Peña Nieto’s legal office has already asked the Supreme Court to shield his officials from prosecution for corruption. The elite will protect itself. López Obrador will not be able to properly exorcize the corrupt from the Mexican state, let alone from Mexican society. Corrupt weeds grow on the soil of capitalism, the loam of profit and greed as well as of rents from government contracts.