Daily Digest

The revival of Gourmet magazine as a worker-owned cooperative represents a significant, if modest, development in the ongoing crisis of corporate media. When Condé Nast shuttered the legendary publication in 2009 during the financial crisis, it marked another casualty of media consolidation under...

The situation in Venezuela reveals a stark contradiction at the heart of US foreign policy: Washington has removed Nicolás Maduro while deliberately preserving the entire state apparatus that enforced his rule. This strategic choice becomes comprehensible only when viewed through the lens of...

The launch of Trump Media's 'America First' ETFs at the New York Stock Exchange represents a qualitative escalation in the fusion of executive state power with private capital accumulation. This development illustrates how financialized capitalism has reached a stage where the nominal separation...

The Trump administration's threat to impose escalating tariffs on eight European nations unless they support US acquisition of Greenland reveals the deepening contradictions within the Western capitalist alliance. Far from representing mere diplomatic eccentricity, this move exposes how...

British supermarkets' rush to capitalize on weight-loss injection drugs reveals a telling moment in late capitalism: the pharmaceutical industry creates expensive medications accessible primarily to wealthier consumers, and the retail sector immediately develops premium-priced food products to...

The Free America Walkout represents a significant tactical evolution in American protest movements, as organizers explicitly frame their action in terms of labor withdrawal rather than traditional weekend demonstrations. By calling workers to leave their jobs, students to leave schools, and...

The mass protests across Denmark and Greenland against U.S. annexation threats represent a striking moment where the contradictions of contemporary imperialism become visible to ordinary people. Thousands chanting 'Greenland is not for sale' are articulating, whether consciously or not, a...

The US government's retreat from flu vaccination recommendations amid a severe outbreak reveals a fundamental contradiction between public health imperatives and the ideological commitments of capital-aligned governance. While 7,400 Americans have died this flu season—including at least 17...

The resurgence of the 'abolish ICE' movement following the killing of Renee Nicole Good reveals the deeper function of immigration enforcement within capitalist labor relations. ICE, created in 2003 ostensibly for national security, primarily serves to maintain a precarious, deportable workforce...