Steve Witkoff’s tribute asks us to forget what Putin’s state does to people. The evidence runs from Ukrainian children to Russia’s own dissidents argues Simon Pearson.
We’ve all felt the temptation. “Just run it through copilot.” The ease of copying, pasting, clicking a button. When so many things require cognitive function, the bliss of farming out a task to a bot is almost too much to resist, writes Jessica Mackenzie.
Dave Kellaway reports from Italy on a political statement written by some of the youth involved in the recent demonstrations
One month ago we reported on a huge upsurge of wildfires, once again threatening California. When the article was published, the flames were dying down. Now they’re back, notes Phil Hearse.
We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.
Geoff Ryan looks back at what happened at Aberfan in 1966 and subsequent events which suggest that there is a possibility of another disaster, particularly because of climate change.
Piyamit Leelatham argues against Varoufakis's thesis that under our society of techofeudalism Marx's law of value no longer applies.