The Enclosure of the Commons and the War Economy: A Feminist and Anti-Colonial Critique
The war economy relies on the enclosure of the commons. By reclaiming the commons, we can build a world based on cooperation, ecological stewardship, and social justice.
How Grassroots Union Activists Fight Trump, Republican Callousness
By David McCall Author Bio: David McCall is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Credit Line: This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute Harmon Dent’s congregation “adopted” an apartment building in Beaumont, Texas, and started handing out gift baskets,…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Don’t pour champagne just yet to celebrate ICJ opinion on environmental harm
By Sir Ronald Sanders Sir Ronald Sanders On July 23 , the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered an advisory opinion at the request of the UN General Assembly – driven by small island states such as Antigua and Barbuda,…
The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis
As AI adoption accelerates, its soaring energy demands and carbon footprint raise urgent concerns about sustainability, highlighting the need for greener technologies and policies to mitigate its environmental impact.
How the Trump Administration Wields the Federal Government’s Power Over Public Education
With the help of the U.S. Supreme Court and congressional Republicans, Trump is turning public education into the great unequalizer.
Reparations and the Privy Council
Great store has recently been placed throughout the Caribbean in Jamaica making a petition to King Charles seeking a legal opinion from the Judicial Committee of his Privy Council on several questions relating to reparations for slavery.
Sir Roanald Sanders – Stinging slap: Did it hurt political power or press freedom?
Sir Ronald Sanders When it occurred, in the early 1970s in Guyana, it caused a serious period of apprehension. In what was seen as an abuse of power, a politician in Guyana slapped Rickey Singh, an intrepid journalist, because he…
Dying Like Flies or Russian Military Inferiority
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The Russian offensive in the Ukraine or a Special Military Disaster has descended from slight battlefield gains into mass deployment of drones and a few missiles into urban population centers. A genocide attempt reminiscent of…
Opinion: UK Armed Forces in Disarray?
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The glimmer of hope for the bedeviled UK armed forces from an increased budget and expanded public attention from the Ukraine conflict has fallen on the hard and stony ground of hierarchical incompetence. First came…
The Inevitable Militarization of Space?
For decades, international treaties and diplomatic pressure largely constrained the militarization of space. But in the 2020s, open defiance has replaced subtle circumvention, and the prospect of full-scale weaponization is no longer theoretical.
