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Dec 4, 2024 | 
theanalysis.news | Talia Baroncelli
According to recent Lebanese Health Ministry figures, Israel has killed a total of 4,047 people in Lebanon since October 2023, with 3,402 people killed in the past few months alone. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared Israel’s invasion of Lebanon a political victory for his coalition of right-wing fanatics.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
theanalysis.news | Talia Baroncelli
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues unabated and has been expanded to a second front in Lebanon. American writer Richard Silverstein, author of Tikun Olam, a blog reporting on the Israeli security state, describes how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is weaponizing national grief over the attacks of October 7 to legitimize its murderous regional project.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Robert Pollin |Talia Baroncelli
Given voters’ concerns over rising food and housing costs, Kamala Harris has pledged to combat price gouging if elected president, though she has yet to clearly lay out the hallmarks of the rest of her economic policy. In part 2, Bob Pollin, economist and advisor to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Pramila Jayapal on Medicare For All, explains the meaning of price gouging and delves into the causes of inflation during the COVID pandemic.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Robert Pollin |Talia Baroncelli
The issue of banning (or not banning) fracking has been at the forefront of the 2024 presidential debates between former President Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Fracking, a technique that involves horizontal drilling to extract gas and oil from shale rock, risks methane leaks and other environmental hazards.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Trita Parsi |Talia Baroncelli
The assassination of Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, on Iranian soil was an embarrassment to the Iranian regime and its new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, lays out how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to corner Kamala Harris – should she win the presidency – into steering U.S. policy in the direction of an all-out war in the Middle East.
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May 22, 2024 | 
theanalysis.news | Talia Baroncelli
The post-World War II era was characterized by decolonization in Asia and Africa, with resistance movements leading to the unraveling of the British empire in colonies such as former British Kenya, where the Mau Mau launched a lengthy uprising between 1952-1960, as well as in former British India, with the dissolution of the British Raj and creation of an independent India and Pakistan in 1947.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
theanalysis.news | Talia Baroncelli
The fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX passenger aircraft and the recent Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident, in which a door-plug blew out after take-off, are consequences of Boeing’s systemic incentivization of profits over safety.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Jason Moore |Talia Baroncelli
The current climate crisis emerged out of a specific set of historical and economic factors which have maintained capitalist accumulation and class inequalities to this day. Jason W. Moore, geographer and Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, explains how the development of capitalism fueled European colonialism and Western imperialism, resulting in a novel form of climate destruction. Hi, I’m Talia Baroncelli, and you’re watching theAnalysis.news.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Jason Moore |Talia Baroncelli
In part 2, historian and geographer Jason W. Moore explains why climate and revolutionary struggles must understand capitalist dynamics and deploy a language of universal class solidarity to overthrow transnational power structures perpetuating the climate crisis. Part 1: Capitalocene: How Capitalism Created the Climate CrisisHi, I’m Talia Baroncelli, and you’re watching theAnalysis.news. This is part two of my lively discussion with historian Jason W. Moore.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
theanalysis.news | Talia Baroncelli
Facing extradition to the United States, WikiLeaks founder, and publisher Julian Assange has been held in arbitrary detention under psychologically distressing conditions for years in the U.K. Stefania Maurizi, a journalist for the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, recounts what she witnessed at Assange’s most recent hearing at a U.K. High Court in London, where his lawyers argued for the right to appeal his extradition.
