“The United States is a big and unique country in its own way. It took the people of America only 300 years to turn it into a superpower; this is a relatively short period, by our standards. This is an obvious fact. We also know outstanding American politicians; we know outstanding American businesspersons and cultural…

BYADELE WALTON Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, is well known for opposing the neocolonialism of the Global North. But on International Women’s Day, we should also remember his strident commitment to women’s liberation. On March 8, 1987, Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, spoke to a rally of thousands of women…

Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt)  on October 31, 2023 by Yorgos Mitralias (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitamet Debt)) (Posted Mar 06, 2024) Fascism, Movements, Strategy, StrikesGlobalNewswireAlbert Einstein We republish the following text because it is now even more timely and even more useful than when it was first published in August 2021.…

BY MARIA POPOVA The most reliable portal into another’s psyche is the mental library of that person’s favorite books — those foundational idea-bricks of which we build the home for our interior lives, the integral support beams of our personhood and values. And who doesn’t long for such a portal into humanity’s most robust yet…

How should we explain the near complete absence of feelings of guilt or shame on the part of Western politicians — especially over Gaza? Thomas Fazi Mar 11 Michael Brenner — Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and a fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS/Johns Hopkins — isn’t…