21+ hour, 15+ min ago   (259+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (734+ words) Amodei said the incidents led him to call for a three-step plan to pace AI development and allow companies time to “align and safeguard their models, and for third-party evaluators to confirm this.” Amodei’s essay was published days after Jacob…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (889+ words) This article was originally published by Truthout On the heels of their victory on silica-based powder, baristas are urging patrons to boycott until they win a contract. The boycott of Starbucks’ multinational coffee chain is still in full swing this…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1094+ words) Imperialism, the delegates understood, does not survive by the gun and the bank alone. It also occupies the school, the radio station, the publishing house, the laboratory, the museum, and the imagination. It teaches the colonised to see their own…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (781+ words) Increasingly, prominent analysts are saying the United States will have to “print” its way out. But using whose printing press, printing what? An August 22, 2026 article in Forbes compares the effect of Fed and Treasury bond purchases like this: Under quantitative…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (351+ words) President Donald Trump was accused over the weekend of exploiting an energy crisis of his own creation to make the case for what he dubiously characterized as “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela, a country that the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (808+ words) The ghost of Upton Sinclair. Rob Warzyniak, People's World. When The Jungle was published in 1906, writer and journalist Upton Sinclair hoped his novel would advance socialism by exposing the plight of the wage slave, dangerous working conditions, and the general…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (902+ words) The Red Sea often makes headlines as the launch site for attacks on oil tankers and infrastructure by the Houthi rebels, a political and religious group that controls much of the northern and western areas of Yemen. But the history…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (238+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment In the first six months of the year, Turkiye’s energy import bill alone rose $2 billion over what had been projected, which helped widen the country’s trade deficit. One of the ways Turkish consumers have responded to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1218+ words) This article was originally published by Truthout Amid the destabilization and devastation caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, oil executives are raking in billions. While the U.S. war on Iran is broadly unpopular in the U.S, including among a growing…...