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Snapshot of a War Against People and Nature: A Chronicle from Mexico

In Perspective In 2006, the former right-wing Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, decided to formalise a war on drugs to boost the economy and, thus, legitimate the new government after he defeated the progressive candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in a controversial election. Since then, the country has been exposed to terror of every type

By Inés Durán Matute

The Cold War Was Never about Democracy

Interview The author of The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins, talks about how the West’s violent anticommunist crusade shaped our modern world

“Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”

Interview A year after the outbreak of war, Alexander Tushkin from Russia spoke to Sergey Movchan, left-wing activist in Ukraine, about Ukrainian nationalism, the far right and antifascists in the Ukrainian army

By Alexander Tushkin

Making Russia Great Again?

In Perspective How the Kremlin suppressed Russian nationalists, but ended up pursuing their greatest ambition

By Alexander Tushkin

New Study: Independent Media in Myanmar Since the Military Coup

Theory & Research Nine months after the elected government was overthrown, free and independent media is almost non-existent

By Nwet Kay Khine