The framework of food sovereignty remains a powerful alternative to an agribusiness food system that is fueling the climate crisis, writes Adam Termote.

John Collins surveys some of the key perspectives within an ongoing dialogue about the present and future of Spain’s perpetually fragmented Left. Is a change on the horizon?

The “newspaper of record’ misses a golden opportunity to explain the material connections between violence “there” and violence “here.”

The common message of “we are all to blame, we all have to do our part” serves to shield the global elite from responsibility for the current crisis, writes Fernando Luengo.

In a Q&A recently conducted on Facebook, the widely cited author of We Created Chávez argues that the US attack “was never about democracy or drugs” and that “revolution is a process - always.”

On the latest phase in the weaponization of social media and LLMs.

How low-income women profit in the Urban Kilimanjaro region

Denise Brennan writes for openDemocracy

What kind of future is being constructed in our name? And who profits from its manufactured inevitability?

In Buffalo, housing is public health, writes Steve Peraza.

Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan write for Project Censored

Can we still choose what we pay attention to, or is that being chosen for us?

In Myanmar, the search for rare earth minerals is a tangle of militarization, environmental damage, and resistance.

For journalists who work outside corporate paradigms and who often elevate underrepresented voices and challenge dominant narratives, the integration of AI raises urgent questions about editorial autonomy, authorship, and the risk of ideological conformity.

Vienna, Austria, is the site of what is viewed internationally as the most successful model of social housing development since the early twentieth century.

Trump is pushing a new artificial intelligence-driven bureaucracy to gut public services and use our data to exploit us, writes Ulises A. Mejias for Truthout.

For the past few months, the world has been watching mass protests unfold in Georgia. These actions represent more than just opposition to the current government; they also reflect a deeper struggle over the country’s future. Caught between European integration and growing Russian influence, Georgians continue to push back against years of Kremlin-led democratic erosion. Their fight extends beyond Russia, shaping Georgia’s place in a shifting global order where the European Union (EU), the United States, and China also hold powerful influence.

In this piece for Turning Point magazine, Gaia Guatri and Shekufe Ranjbar explore the ongoing struggles of Iranian women in the years since the start of the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement and the subsequent wave of state repression.

According to the Real Academia Española, a euphemism is defined as a word or expression used in place of one that is harsh, unpleasant, or rude. Euphemisms are more and more rampant in political and economic debates (which is a way of describing what is often mere propaganda). The citizenry, passive and defenseless spectators, summoned only when there are elections and in the face of the enormous power of the mass media and social media, swallow them one after another, incorporating them into our everyday language as if they were undeniable truths. 

The first time I ever heard the term “social housing” was at a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) meeting in Buffalo, NY, in the fall of 2024. A former colleague of mine invited me to the meeting, which was hosted at Crane Branch Public Library in the Elmwood Village neighborhood where I live. Convening that day was the infrastructure subcommittee in the DSA’s Buffalo Chapter. They were discussing housing issues, which have been a professional interest of mine since my first job in public policy in 2016.