Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination involving control, hoarding, concealment, and mystification of information, wealth, and power.
Featured translation: investigative reporter Hannes Grassegger’s 2022 longform profile of “the Swiss man who built the global passport industry and turned citizenship into a commodity.”
The Man Who Knows No Boundaries Read More »
The Assad regime is finding the earthquakes quite useful: they came to help with the destruction. And on a political level, the Syrian regime is weaponizing the aftermath to get out of international isolation.
The Earthquakes: A Gift to Assad Read More »
Making knowledge in a way that harms Indigenous land for the “greater good” is a colonial land relation.
Entitlement and Extraction: On Colonial Science Read More »
The decline is real. The fall is real. But what’s remarkable is that the idea of Roman decline is always there, even when Rome is expanding, even when its society is getting stronger.
Myths of Decline that Destroy the Present: Rereading Roman History Read More »
Our relationship is directly with the spirit of the land itself. Their relationship is with a man who has dominion – it is based in a feudal system.
Whose Land Rights? Dismantling Settler Dominion Read More »
Most people seem to think California is a bastion of cultural pluralism and progressive policymaking, but California had more Confederate monument than any other free state.
California’s Confederate Past and Present Read More »
For a brief moment there was hope that the Palestinian question would be revitalized and put center stage for the rest of the region. That could have come to pass had the Arab Spring not been usurped.
Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine Read More »
The global police state involves a convergence of global capitalism’s need for social control and its economic need to perpetuate profit-making in the face of stagnation.
Dimensions of the Global Police State Read More »
It’s a chronic condition of capitalism that lower-income people in the income distribution of any city are not going to be able to house themselves decently and legally. That’s true if you’re in Nairobi or Lima or New York.
Contradictions and Crisis in Capitalist Housing Read More »
As we rolled back the welfare state, policing became a primary way of controlling dispossessed populations while at the same time shoring up the interests of the middle class.
Ending Inequality, Ending Police Read More »
