Harris Moves Right in Search of a Majority

3 months 1 week ago

Vice-President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic nominee of an enthusiastic party, has had phenomenal initial success. Since entering the race on July 21, she and her running mate Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, have raised $540 million, organized Zoom calls involving hundreds of thousands of supporters, and held rallies of thousands. Blacks, Latinos, women, and young voters are driving her surge. With her party solidly behind her, she has moved to the right to try to win over independents and perhaps even some Republicans.

- IV596-September 2024 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

The Kenyan Uprising

3 months 1 week ago

More than two months after its government's controversial Finance Bill 2024 sparked widespread unrest, the flame of resistance remains bright across Kenya. The youth-led struggle—largely forged on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and WhatsApp by Generation-Z Kenyans—has ignited years of smoldering frustration into fresh demands for accountable governance, dignity, and justice. Following the government's cancellation of the bill, the rallying call shifted from #RejectFinanceBill2024 to #RutoMustGo—a shift from opposition to a tax increase that would disproportionately impact the poorest of Kenyans to a rejection of the neocolonial political arrangement, a public indictment of both elite colonial agents and the comprador class, and a mandate to renegotiate the broken social contract between Kenyan citizens and leadership. Kenyan youth are rejecting the poverty and humiliation perpetuated through the inequitable power relations of the global capitalist system, which have left Kenya vulnerable to aggressive foreign interests and the shadowy manipulation common within the imperial global agenda.

- IV596-September 2024 / Youth and student movements, Kenya
Zachary J. Patterson

Hypocrisy: The Conflict of Zionist Hawks and Vultures

3 months 2 weeks ago

What is the conflict within the Zionist power elite about? Do not believe that it is a conflict between hawks and doves as the Western media portrays it. Nay, do not even think that most of the Israeli masses who are demonstrating to demand an agreement leading to a new exchange of captives between their government and Hamas, are seeking to end the tragedy of Gaza and withdraw the occupation army from it. No, as we have repeatedly stressed, the Zionist army will not withdraw from the Strip a second time, since even the “moderates” in its ranks believe that a new withdrawal would mean a repeat of the same mistake.

- IV596-September 2024 / United States (USA), Israel
Gilbert Achcar

The Indus Water Treaty

3 months 2 weeks ago

Rising temperatures experts argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, er­ratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for sustenance.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, National question
Mohammad Ebad Athar, Mona Bhan
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