AMERICADAVID CAMERONRUSSIAUKUKRAINEWAR   Thomas Fazi APRIL 12, 2024   6 MINS It’s hard to imagine a better metaphor for the miserable state of UK politics than David Cameron flying across the Atlantic in the hope of convincing America to continue funding a bloody war on Europe’s doorstep — only to fail miserably. Over the past few days, the…

Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language.By Louise Matsakis MARCH 26, 2024SHARESAVE Listen to this article 00:00 10:58 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. A few days ago, I watched a video of myself talking in perfect Chinese. I’ve been studying the language…

What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world. ILLUSTRATION BY AARON LOWELL DENTON This is the first in a series of essays that will revisit classic works.   Whenever I land back in the United States after a trip abroad, I feel a warm rush of familiarity, a penetrating relief at having…

Zara Jemuel 12 April, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare “Oppression follows logically from exploitation so as to guarantee the latter.”— Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa In Ceremonies of Possession Patricia Seed describes how the various colonizer nations introduced themselves to Indigenous peoples. The Spanish declared war by literally reading aloud a formal declaration. The French held elaborate processions with settlers…

From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect. APRIL 11, 2024 Afshin Pirhashemi (Iran), Untitled, 2017. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. We live in…