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Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and…

Who is Claudia talking to?

No one can deny the abilities of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. If we were to draw an analogy between her performance in public office and that of, say, an outstanding professional athlete, we would observe above-average “physical condition”; we would…

Walk, Talk, and Think: How Walking Conversations Can Restore Authentic Learning in the Age of AI

As AI takes over essay writing, one-hour walk-and-talk conversations with instructors allow students to demonstrate a proper understanding through reflection, dialogue, and engagement with nature. The rise of generative AI in education presents both an opportunity and a profound challenge.…

Will the US Attack Venezuela?

Spoiler alert – it already has. This is not a glib answer but a comment on the nature of the conflict. The US mission to wrench Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution out from its roots has a quarter-century pedigree. Stick around to…

The Recent Sino-US Dispute Over Taiwan’s Post-WWII Status Is A Sign Of The Times

As the New Cold War shifts from the US prioritizing Russia’s containment in Europe to China’s containment in Asia, so too is the trend of the US gradually revising the results of WWII in order to give it an edge…

The Travesty of the Nobel Peace Prize

When Alfred Nobel created his celebrated prize in 1895, he imagined honoring those who ‘have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion…

A conversation about Shakespeare with echoes in the present

Interview with Dimitris Eleas about William Shakespeare What follows is what was said between Dimitris Sakislidis* and me for the bibliophilic website Bookia, on the occasion of my book When Shakespeare Was Lost, 1585–1592, published in Athens by the historic…

Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize

The Nobel Committee has frequently given the peace prize to major war makers, and frequently to do-gooders whose work in a variety of fields has been unrelated to abolishing war. It has also often given the prize to opponents and…

Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela

Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combatting “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism. By Roger D. Harris Donald Trump boasted striking small boats off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to “blow the cartel…

The Multi-Million-Year Path to Becoming Human—Are We Actually There Yet?

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. By Jan Ritch-Frel and Deborah Barsky Our chapter in the human evolutionary story is one of a globally connected population that has ballooned thanks to a suite of recent…

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