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Guatemala's Ongoing Memory Battles

Sunday, 5 April 2026, 7:14 pm | Independent Media Institute

For over ten years, Angélica Macario has sought to preserve the archive of the Council for Ethnic Community Runujel Junam in a struggle to keep the memory of the genocide alive. More >>

Arkeopolitics: Reframing Human History From Scratch

Sunday, 5 April 2026, 7:11 pm | Independent Media Institute

By integrating the order beneath with the order above, we can finally stop treating “the past as a foreign country” and recognize it as our most vital pool of experience for the road ahead. More >>

Why Capitalism Relies On Nature And Care Work It Does Not Pay For

Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 8:10 pm | Independent Media Institute

Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions & undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems. More >>

How Flawed Are Weapons Estimates?

Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 9:08 pm | Independent Media Institute

As munitions grew in number and complexity, reported figures have often misled the public. In modern conflicts, many of these figures are little more than fiction. More >>

How Environmental Laws Are Shifting The Focus From Humans To Nature

Monday, 30 March 2026, 8:52 pm | Independent Media Institute

Environmental laws are evolving from prioritizing human benefits to recognizing nature’s intrinsic rights; this is reflected in the small but growing number of countries that grant legal personhood to natural entities. More >>

Barbecue, Empire, And Haiti’s Child Soldiers

Monday, 30 March 2026, 8:49 pm | Independent Media Institute

Haiti’s gang coalition Viv Ansanm is powered by thousands of child combatants drawn by hunger, displacement, and a century of foreign intervention. More >>

How Will Trump’s Supporters React To Seeing School Vouchers Program Increase Chinese Influence?

Monday, 30 March 2026, 8:42 pm | Independent Media Institute

School choice advocates calling the federal voucher program “free money” may be underestimating its political costs. More >>

How Microplastics Threaten Marine Ecosystems And The Food Chain

Monday, 30 March 2026, 8:39 pm | Independent Media Institute

Microplastics are pervasive pollutants that accumulate in marine ecosystems and enter the human food chain. More >>

Why Climate Change Legislation Hits A Wall In Washington D.C.

Monday, 30 March 2026, 8:37 pm | Independent Media Institute

Decades of political battles, shifting public opinion, and evolving advocacy strategies shaped the path of U.S. climate policy from early scientific warnings to major federal investment. More >>

How A British Overseas Territory Became The Largest Holder Of U.S. Debt

Sunday, 22 March 2026, 6:22 pm | Independent Media Institute

The Cayman Islands sits at the heart of a network of British financial jurisdictions. Together, they manage trillions in assets, influencing global capital flows and investment networks. More >>

Boomerangs Of Empire: Latin America As Colonial Laboratory

Sunday, 22 March 2026, 6:17 pm | Independent Media Institute

This special issue of the NACLA Report traces the returning and disseminating violence that is shaping the Americas today, from border militarization to algorithmic surveillance and the criminalization of dissent. More >>

Scale Raises The Ceiling, But Fiscal Foundations Determine Whether Autocracy Or Democracy Prevails

Friday, 20 March 2026, 10:09 pm | Independent Media Institute

Democracy has emerged through multiple pathways and has sustained under diverse historical conditions—and that its durability has depended not just on shared norms or formal institutions, but on the fiscal systems that underwrite them. More >>

How These Oil Workers Claimed Their Power

Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 9:09 pm | Independent Media Institute

As Bryan Goode and his coworkers prepare to negotiate their first contract, they look with confidence to the future, knowing that all of us in the USW—850,000 strong—will support them every step of the way. More >>

How Informal Caregivers Use Storytelling To Build Community And Influence Policy

Monday, 16 March 2026, 2:04 pm | Independent Media Institute

Sharing caregiving experiences helps people feel less alone, builds community, and strengthens the movement for better support and policy. More >>

War With Iran To Test China’s Energy Security

Sunday, 15 March 2026, 7:45 pm | Independent Media Institute

U.S. military action is disrupting key energy suppliers, putting China’s reliance on foreign sources to the test. Even as Beijing strengthens domestic capacity and diversifies imports, the crisis exposes the limits of its energy strategy. More >>

Surviving A Pan-Crisis

Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 9:34 pm | Independent Media Institute

Why the political, technological, ecological, and epistemological crises of our time are no longer separate—and why existing paradigms can no longer explain them. More >>

The UAE Prepares For Expansion But Faces Pullback

Saturday, 28 February 2026, 10:14 pm | Independent Media Institute

As Iran’s influence shows signs of waning, the UAE seeks to grow its global influence with U.S. backing, even as regional rivalries threaten to check its ambitions. More >>

Will Mamdani Abolish Police, Or Simply Make Them Obsolete?

Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 9:39 pm | Independent Media Institute

What sets Mamdani apart from other progressive mayors who promised to be tough on police is a democratic socialist vision of a society that meets people’s needs. More >>

Widening The ‘We’: Meeting The Crisis Of Common Sense

Sunday, 22 February 2026, 10:17 pm | Independent Media Institute

What do we mean, in a social and political sense, by “we”? Generally, we’re referring to our shared identity as a community: the collective understanding that enables us to discuss, deliberate, and arrive at decisions on matters that affect ... More >>

Can Europe Reassert Itself After Ukraine?

Friday, 13 February 2026, 2:58 pm | Independent Media Institute

As the war in Ukraine drags on and the U.S. priorities change, voices such as Glenn Diesen argue that Europe must rediscover strategic autonomy, whether the liberal international order survives or not. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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