Expressing the horror and outrage felt by vast numbers of people about the ongoing Zionist slaughter in Gaza, the number of signatories is growing by the hour.
The process by which the film became a TIFF marquee event underscores the central role financial and imperialist foreign policy interests play in the country’s major cultural institutions.
This type of “support” for the rank-and-file soldiers can’t be walled off from confronting the concrete social role and vast, world-historic crimes of the American military.
President Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the Smithsonian Institute, accusing the museum of promoting “anti-American ideology.”
A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence.
Corporate mergers, political pressure and economic decline are reshaping American media.
By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in 1967 under Lyndon Johnson.
The storyline involves rivalries and conflicts that inevitably surface at Mountainhead among the four swollen economic interests and egos
This type of “support” for the rank-and-file soldiers can’t be walled off from confronting the concrete social role and vast, world-historic crimes of the American military.
The half-hour film is a harrowing chronicle of the human cost inflicted on the civilian population, as well as medical professionals, in Gaza.
Ryan Coogler’s film combines monster-movie antics with a racialist interpretation of history.
Billy Wilder’s 1950 film Sunset Boulevard was an unflattering portrayal of the film industry that provoked the ire of its upper echelons.
Midway through their opening song, as they led chants of “Free Palestine,” festival staff cut the band’s sound and tore down the flag. The crowd booed, chanting “Let them play.”
Lehrer, trained as a mathematician at Harvard, taught for many decades after his performing and songwriting career ended around 1970.
Recent albums by artists of diverse styles point to broader problems of current popular music.
The release of Roger Waters’ film of the performance in Prague on May 25, 2023 of the rock concert “This is Not a Drill” provides an opportunity for a wider global audience to experience in full a powerful expression of art and politics.
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago. What accounts for its continuing popularity and resonance?
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
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.”
