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Many U.S. companies are experiencing long delays in getting export licenses to sell their goods in China. Most of these products, however, are already available in China. Furthermore, 82 percent of these firms say the products stuck in Commerce Department review already have a Chinese or other non-American supplier standing by to take the order anyway.

I was incarcerated by the Florida Department of Corrections on a ten-year sentence. When my custody status finally dropped to minimum, the administration treated it like I won an award. To me, it felt like a damn insult. The thought of stepping outside that main prison gate made me sick to my stomach. I assumed […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

The US empire cracked in 1971. History tells us it was a minor fracture, but a fracture nonetheless. The forces in control of the government in DC at the time—Nixon, Kissinger, the Pentagon—recovered from their fall with a vengeance, but only because they employed clearly unconstitutional, authoritarian, even fascistic means to keep control. A new […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Norma Hashim and Dr. Nazari Ismail from the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in this two-part podcast with solidarity activists from Malaysia. Hashim and Dr. Ismail share reflections on almost two decades of grassroots organizing with BDS Malaysia and Viva Palestina Malaysia.

Image by Austin Anderson. “We still have time” has been superseded by “How much worse can it get.” The world has been turned upside down by a destructive, out-of-control global climate system. “Unprecedented” is found in every corner of the planet. There are no safe harbors, whilst disillusionment and anger build amongst 8.3 billion people. Indeed, climate deniers are at risk of being run out of town on a rail.

Photograph Source: InformedImages – CC BY-SA 4.0 In the latest chapter of the “Democratic Socialism in Office” saga in New York, the City Council recently unanimously passed sorely-needed one-time $10,000 bonuses to public school teaching assistants, through the RESPECT Check Act, and democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is working hard to overturn it.

Fire at the Shahran Oil Depot in northwestern Tehran following an Israeli airstrike on March 7th, one of several facilities struck in the vicinity while around thirty oil storage and processing sites were attacked across the country. Source: @sentdefender When we talk about war, it’s usually in numbers. Innocents and soldiers killed. Bombs dropped. Money spent. We hear figures like 7.6 million and 37.5 billion. There are so many like this that they often feel meaningless, even with context.

Jason Arday speaking at the Society for Experimental Biology symposium. (Screen capture from video posted to YouTube.) The controversy surrounding the death of Jason Arday has produced a revealing moment of institutional self-defense, if not abject moral cowardice, within the liberal press. Three recent interventions are especially instructive. The Guardianhas defended its reporting on Arday as legitimate and responsible journalism while condemning the racialized abuse directed at its journalists.

Industrial clearcutting in the Oregon Coast Range. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Last week, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brook L. Rollins moved forward on the agency’s promise to revoke the 2001 Roadless Rule, opening a public comment period on the proposal and a draft environmental statement on its impact. If this sounds familiar, that’s because we covered this almost a year ago during the scoping process. So what’s changed, and what hasn’t?

Photograph Source: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit photographer – CC BY-SA 3.0 It has been hot in Switzerland. Temperatures have hovered around 35C (95F) during recent peaks. One longs for cooler, even cold weather. And yet, when it comes to war, it is often hot conflicts that attract attention. What continues for years, even decades, can gradually become background. And as it does, what was once considered temporary and exceptional can begin to look normal and permanent.