US suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the...
Craig Murray’s jailing is the national security state’s latest assault on independent journalism
Former British diplomat and independent journalist Craig Murray is the first person imprisoned in the UK over media contempt in 50 years.
This article was originally published at Jonathan Cook’s blog.
Craig Murray,...
Foreign Agents #1: Exposing the San Isidro Movement & US culture war on Cuba
In new Rokfin livestream, Max Blumenthal details his investigation into Cuba’s San Isidro Movement and the US sponsorship of the right-wing cultural dissident group
Watch the full livestream of Max’s first Foreign...
A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there’s no single way to define Black Twitter’s complex, ongoing legacy.Getting Through, 2016–PresentBy the end of the Obama era, Black Twitter seemed like...
The Cost of Preventing Deaths by Climate-Driven Heat
A new formula measures the “mortality cost of carbon,” and how much would have to be removed from the atmosphere to save a single life. For the past few years, climate economists...
Michigan Supreme Court Limits Use of Restraints on Juveniles
The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday significantly limited when handcuffs, shackles and other restraints can be used on young people when they appear in court.
The new court rule, which goes into...
La contrarrevolución cultural cubana: raperos y artistas apoyados por el gobierno de EE.UU. ganan...
El Movimiento de San Isidro, que se presenta como un colectivo popular de artistas que luchan por la libertad de expresión, se ha convertido en un arma clave en el asalto...
The Number of People With IRAs Worth $5 Million or More Has Tripled, Congress...
The number of multimillion-dollar individual retirement accounts has soared in the past decade, as more wealthy Americans use the tax-advantaged vehicles to shield fortunes from income taxes, according to new data...
Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology
For decades, VR has failed to live up to expectations. Yet somehow, it keeps receiving more chances and more resources. It has been seven years since Palmer Luckey appeared on the cover of WIRED magazine. The June 2014 issue declared, “This kid is about to change gaming, movies, TV, music, design, medicine, sex, sports, art, travel, social network, education—and reality.” In 2016, Facebook acquired his virtual reality company, Oculus, for $2 billion. It now invests $18.5 billion annually into research and development, and Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality division, accounts for as much as 20 percent of its entire workforce, with no sign of slowing down.