The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from its upcoming Writers’ Week gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026. The post Universities and the arts after Bondi: from definitions to “ambient antisemitism” appeared first on Overland literary journal. Source linkRead More

¿Por qué Estados Unidos lanzó una “operación militar especial” en Venezuela? ¿Para conseguir con sus codiciosas manos el petróleo y otros recursos en ese país? ¿Para sacar a su rival imperialista China y sus aliados (Rusia, Cuba, Irán) de la región y advertir a otros países latinoamericanos del precio que podrían tener que pagar por su presencia? ¿Para conseguir una…Read More

El blog en alemán Communaut pidió a Sanderr de IP que respondiera a diez preguntas sobre las políticas de la administración Trump. Lo hizo con la ayuda de otros miembros de IP con base en Estados Unidos. Una de las preguntas más controvertidas del momento es cómo leer la administración Trump: ¿Un grupo de lunáticos ideológicos aliados con multimillonarios interesados…Read More

On This Day in The History of Mike:89 years ago today, General Motors workers in Flint, Michigan, (including my uncle) took over 3 factories, locked the doors, shut down the assembly lines and refused to come out until GM recognize their union — and give them a 5¢ an hour pay raise. 44 days later, GM caved, the strikers walked…Read More

foThe picture of the clown trump found on the internet. Don’t remember where but it is showed up when I put “open course” in the google label. It is my current take on the many crimes that trump has been part of including the pedophile issue which is still being covered up by he and his minions refusing to tell…Read More

Friends,There is one song that stands out as a plea for peace, as relevant this year as it was during the height of the Vietnam War: Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Its release in 1971 was accompanied by a two-year long international campaign for peace in 11 cities, bearing a simple but powerful message:John…Read More

Over Thanksgiving weekend, tens of thousands of people across the country came together to say “We Ain’t Buying It!” to companies that have capitulated to Trump.From Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, they participated in a shopping pause at Target, Home Depot, and Amazon, in protest of those retailers completely caving to the Trump administration and going along with their harmful, authoritarian…Read More

Last week, several hundred academics, think tankers, and political operators gathered in a spectacular new building whimsically named The Treehouse, across the street from Harvard Business School, to discuss the obsolescence of neoliberalism. The Treehouse is named after its primary donor, the cofounder of a private equity firm that has made its profits by targeting, stripping… Source Source linkRead More

If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral, in which one form of identitarian chauvinism spurs the next, we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence. That’s why the Palestine solidarity movement…Read More