Новости за 07.08.2025

I rarely visit Rome without stopping at the Campo de’ Fiori to pay homage to Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher who, in 1600, was brutally burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition. His crime was daring to challenge entrenched dogmas and to think freely about God and the infinite nature of the universe. As More

The elusive promise of interracial solidarity is an age-old question, one made all the more urgent in the current political climate. Can Black and white workers stick together against their bosses? Might their solidarity scale up to a multiracial working class movement, powerful enough to defy the capitalist system? In the sociology of labor and More

In an amazing court victory for wild wolves and advocates who tirelessly speak on their behalf, the federal district court in Missoula, Montana ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it determined that gray wolves in the western United States do not warrant federal protections. Western Watersheds Project, Alliance for More

Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brought his administration to a new level of crazy. Firing the head of a statistical agency because he didn’t like the data is extreme even by Trumpian standards. But Trump’s statements on the firing and the response of his More

Incumbent presidents are notoriously vulnerable to losing control of whatever House and Senate majorities they might come to power with. It’s one of those near-iron laws of American politics from which few chief executives have managed to escape. Remember Barack Obama in 2010? He wowed the entire electorate in 2008, handily defeating maverick Republican John More

This past week was punctuated by a perfect storm of negative US economic reports and events. Together they mean the door to recession in the US has now opened—quite contrary to all of Trump’s hype that the US economy is doing great. The reports in question are the July jobs report lasts Friday and the More

Recent US events have called attention to children’s trafficking and exploitation, a phenomenon that is widespread and causes enormous suffering. Among the several forms of children’s exploitation are forced labor, sexual abuse, involving them in armed conflict, marrying them when they are underage, or selling them for illegal adoption. Millions of women and girls are More

Northern Cyprus: A hub of threatening Turkish danger Shay Gal, an Israeli strategist, suggested recently that Israel, Greece and Cyprus need to think and possibly act to end Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus. Of course, Israel would join Greece and Cyprus to fight Turkey not for humanitarian grounds or the freedom of Cyprus but, primarily More

wrapped in red ribbons and sparkles that blind they drone on about war as if they were talking about stock prices as if it were a bloodless event war when they should be reporting that the sun has stripped the yellow from its flower in shame and the rose has lost her scent to the More