Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Why Wikis are a useful tool to protect online information from being ‘disappeared’

Wiki sites are at the forefront of a shift toward decentralized information sharing.

How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.

For Canada, the insane, insulting Trump land theft stunt is DOA – and GOP...

Why would any functional country, one actively welcoming diversity, science, modernity and democratic values, join incendiary, polarized, know-nothing American dysfunction?

A cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration

The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.”

‘Only the people can save the people,’ say migrant workers

The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights.

Democrats irritated by voters who elected them need an attitude adjustment

While Trump’s forces are setting fire to the basic structures of American democracy, Democrats in Congress are widely perceived to be wielding squirt guns.

When – or if  – will painful, endless  MAGA contradictions doom its bash-America pillage?

Already Americans now strongly reject the J6 pardons, 83-17%, with even 70% of Republicans agreeing on violent offenders.

D is for Donald (and Decline)

The Big 3Ds (or Is It Four?)

Another Blackrock? Nearly 100 US mercenaries are in Gaza right now

96 American special forces are patrolling a checkpoint in the middle of Gaza, as Palestinians return to their homes in the north. If the history of American mercenaries tells us anything, then this could be deadly.

If you believe in social justice, you believe in veganism

Eating animal products is analogous to the oppressive and unjust actions by powerful humans upon other humans.