The preoccupation with fame and wealth and wall-to-wall media coverage of the Swift-Kelce wedding on Friday evening—overlapping with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—is one way the ruling oligarchy is seeking to divert the attention of the public away from the terminal crisis of capitalism.
The name of each martyred child is listed in small script, both Arabic and Roman, in the chronological order of his or her death.
Göktaş, a left-wing stand-up comedian whose video of a political comedy show garnered 8.5 million views in a week was taken into custody.
The actor’s death plunged millions into mourning. He was buried in Istanbul on June 28 in a ceremony attended by large crowds.
Attenborough continues to explore new scientific opportunities and discoveries in covering all aspects of the natural world. His series are distinguished by a systematic approach, to groups of organisms or specific eco-systems, grounded in the history of science.
Series creator, co-director and co-writer Lee Sung Jin makes the pressures of capitalism and class society a persistent theme and source of crises in the series.
The interest in the series is a sympathetic response to an unusually humane treatment of social life as a whole in the US.
It is another indication of the broad-based opposition to the Trump administration and its drive toward dictatorship, including its vicious anti-immigrant witch-hunt.
The film serves up a very limited portrait of the rise of Putin, based on a book by an Italian cultural figure and bourgeois politician.
Artists of Soderbergh’s generation were cut off at the knees, so to speak, by the reactionary atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s.
In a darkly humorous and disturbing movie, a media executive approaches the high point of her career just as a mysterious illness begins to kill the world’s plutocrats.
Under the cover of a generally humane portrayal of the impact of the Ukraine war on a beat-up working class Russian town, the film, at its core, promotes typical US-NATO anti-Putin politics.
Internationally acclaimed musician Peter Gabriel is developing a new album in 2026 entitled o/i (output/input) as a year-long series of track-at-a-time releases timed to arrive with each full moon cycle.
The comical costumes worn by the two conceal the identities of two very accomplished musicians who are masters of their instruments and equipment.
Both avoid serious examination of the complex lives of these great artists of the 20th century.
A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”
The fourth and final volume of Rabinowitch’s books on the October Revolution in Petrograd is a major contribution to the history of the civil war.
The book is a scathing critique of the 2020 Royal Commission of Inquiry, which declared that fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant acted alone and that his mass murder of 51 people could not have been prevented.
The capitalist state is not a neutral instrument that can be picked up and aimed at the wealthy by a sufficiently determined government. It is an organ of class rule.
Frank Dikötter’s new book is a fundamentally flawed work that makes little pretence of academic objectivity or intellectual honesty.
The mass anti-government agitation in Sri Lanka “was the result of real class differences in our society, the divisions between the haves and the have nots” – Prasanna Vithanage
One of his most accomplished works is Omar, a 2013 film about a young Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) who becomes involved in complex political and moral matters.
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”
