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Tag: Social issues

  • Artificial Intelligence: At Heaven’s Gate

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises all sorts of wonderous things. We are told that it will add trillions to GDP; diagnosis, prescribe treatment and register cures for all manner of illnesses; relieve us of mind-numbing tasks at work and at home; and ensure that every one of us is better than average. Doubtless, AI does carry the […]

  • Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions

    Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear. On October 31, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned the attacks, saying that the “mounting human costs are unacceptable.” The […]

  • ‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed

    ‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed

    And then came the universities. After waging war on public broadcasting and the arts, the Trump administration threatened last month to cut federal funding to nine prominent colleges unless they restricted campus speech that opposed conservatives. “Academic freedom is not absolute,” read part of a Compact for Excellence in Higher Education that offered the schools preferential research funding if they […]

  • Low Enrollment Continues to Plague Many Charter Schools

    Nearly three years ago Dissident Voice published an article titled “Low Enrollment Plagues Many Charter Schools.” Since then countless news articles have documented low enrollment at many charter schools across the country, raising doubts about, among other things, so-called “long waiting lists” at many charter schools. Low enrollment has always been one of the four […]

  • Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty

    Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty

    Which sounds more likely: (A) that things are bad because the population keeps organically voting for policies which just so happen to hurt ordinary people while benefitting the rich and powerful, or (B) that things are bad because the rich and powerful want things this way? Does it seem more likely to you that (A) […]

  • Portugal’s Fight over the Muslim Veil

    Portugal, long admired for its tolerance and moderate social fabric, has taken a shocking and regressive turn. The country’s parliament has recently approved a bill proposed by the far-right Chega party to ban face veils such as the burqa and niqab in most public spaces. The bill, still awaiting constitutional review, introduces draconian fines ranging […]

  • Florida “Schools of Hope” Law Intensifies School Privatization

    Florida “Schools of Hope” Law Intensifies School Privatization

    Over the past 33 years privately-operated charter schools have seized billions of dollars in public funds and public property that rightly belong to public schools. This neoliberal parasitism has been achieved mainly through state laws and schemes that legalize and normalize such wealth transfers in the name of “school choice,” “parent empowerment,” “accountability,” “competition,” and […]

  • How can the British Establishment maintain credibility in proscribing a non-violent direct action group as a terrorist organization?

    In proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, along with criminalizing many of those who have challenged this government policy decision, the British Government has opened itself up to criticism and ridicule. In the past few months alone, there have been over 2,000 politically motivated arrests, mostly of elderly people who have held up placards […]

  • Seven Theses on the Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South

    Seven Theses on the Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South

    Guillermo Grebe (Chile), Muro sagrado de la dignidad (Sacred Wall of Dignity), 2021. The walls of Santiago, Chile – the city where I live – are marked with faded graffiti from the estallido social (social uprising) of 2019. Years later, these slogans continue to spill onto the sidewalks, from Nos quitaron tanto que nos quitaron hasta el miedo (they took […]

  • How Gratuitous Talk About Values and Identity Become Canada’s Raison d’État

    How Gratuitous Talk About Values and Identity Become Canada’s Raison d’État

    Draw the Line action, Ottawa, September 20, 2025, part of a country-wide day of action against the Carney government’s anti-social pro-war agenda. The measures taken by the Carney government since it took over power after the last election confirm this government’s adherence to the methods Carney and several of his ministers and point men of […]

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