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Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

July 10, 2026

The latest, in Le Monde: "En 1999, une historienne britannique, Frances Stonor Saunders, a décrit dans Who Paid the Piper? CIAand the Cultural Cold War ( Qui mène la danse ? La CIA et la guerre froide culturelle , Denoël, 2003) comment la CIA infiltrait la culture des années 1950 et 1960 par l’entremise de fondations commeFord ou Rockefeller. Gabriel Rockhill prolonge cette enquête en montrant comment les Etats-Unis ontutilisé ces mêmes canaux pour influencer les théoriciens de gauche – notamment ceux de l’école deFrancfort – afin de rendre leurs idées compatibles avec le capitalisme...."
John Bellamy Foster’s “Breaking the Bonds of Fate”

John Bellamy Foster’s “Breaking the Bonds of Fate”

July 3, 2026

The latest: "Epicurus set up schools, first in Lampsacus (in modern day Turkey), then later in Athens. Other philosophical schools in the city used public space for lectures and attracted young, well educated, aristocratic Greek men. His critique of the ruling classes that dominated these schools that 'Nothing is enough for those for whom enough is too little' is as applicable today as in his age...."

In the public eye: Contributors to “A Land With A People”

March 30, 2026

The latest from Mohammed Mhawish: "We have to ask ourselves: Do we know Hind? Of course we’ve heard her voice, or maybe have seen the building someone renamed after her at Columbia in her honor — which matters, and which she would have deserved, and which is still not the same as knowing her. But do we know her laughter, the way she moved through a room, what she was afraid of, what she loved, the world she was building inside herself at six years old? We learn none of it from the film. We learn it, if we learn it at all, from the interviews her mother gave on the side, on other people’s platforms. The film that claims her voice does not make space for her life."

Venezuela: The United States Against the Sovereignty of Nations

January 7, 2026

On January 3, 2026, at two o’clock in the morning, the United States declared war on Venezuela by bombing several strategic sectors of the capital and kidnapping the elected president, Nicolás Maduro. The latter, the victim of a betrayal at the highest level, was captured by elite troops from U.S. Special Forces during an operation that lasted barely half an hour. He was transferred to New York, accompanied by his wife, Cilia Flores, who was also seized during Operation Absolute Resolve.

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