CULTURE & HISTORY

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Rubio will be a suitable addition to the list of sadistic manipulators who have served in that role before him, joining the likes of Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger as the next soulless manipulator to lead the US State Department in pressing the imperial boot into the throat of the global south.

EDITOR—While the establishment media downplays the “collective Biden”s horrific decision to escalate even further in the West’s war against Russia, millions of people around the globe are well aware that this may indeed be the start of WW3, and that the population of the United States better communicate their concern to Trump in unrqivocal ways if the world is to avoid a nuclear cataclysm.

EDITOR—The heinous crimes against women and children in Gaza—amounting to a genocide— and the lavish military, financial, diplomatic and media support extended to Israel by the West, especially the US, speak loudly about the uselessness and hypocrisy of Bourgeois liberal feminists.

EDITOR—Global activists and thinkers, dreamers and doers came together during IGNITE! to chart a path towards a society built on justice, equity, democracy, peace, and liberation. The Transnational Institute celebrated its 50th anniversary with a festival of radical ideas! We live in dark times — obscene levels of inequality, uncontrolled corporate greed, rampant militarization, a rising far-right, and ecological breakdown. Most disturbing of all, Western governments’ complicity with the ongoing genocide in Palestine has normalised brutal levels of dehumanisation with profound consequences for all vulnerable people worldwide. We need radical, systemic change.

BRIAN BERLETIC—Despite US voters hoping the incoming Trump administration will end America’s wars abroad, citing apparent interest in divesting in Ukraine as proof of change to come, President-elect Trump and his vice president pick JD Vance have vowed even while campaigning to shift US attention overseas from Ukraine to a much larger and more dangerous confrontation with China.