Squid Game 3: Ending not with a bang, but a bleak (and lucrative) whimper

With its explosive entry into social consciousness looking ever smaller in the rearview mirror, Squid Game’s third season sets out to close its story saga while seeding potential for a financially lucrative successor.

Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled, new board apologises for censorship of Randa Abdel-Fattah

South Australian Labor Premier Peter Malinauskas has intensified his vicious denunciations of the Palestinian academic and writer.

Netflix takes over Warner Bros. Discovery in $82.7 billion deal

The acquisition poses a serious threat to entertainment workers, undermining creative labor and endangering art and cultural expression.

Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War

Their testimonies are first-hand accounts of war crimes perpetrated by the self-proclaimed “the most moral army in the world”, flatly contradicting the IDF’s insistence that it operates in accordance with international law and takes measures to minimise civilian harm in its genocidal assault on Gaza.

Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch: A character study of a woman with dementia

Kathleen Chalfant stands out, as she must, considering the theme of the movie. Now 81 years old, she is known for decades of work in film, television and especially theater.

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind: “Honestly, I don’t think you’ve thought things through enough”

It impresses the viewer primarily as a criticism of the self-involvement and self-delusion of a certain masculine type.

Popular music in 2025: Signs of resistance emerge amid war, fascism and corporate conformity

Overall, musicians made their strongest statements outside the recording studio, reflecting the growing mass opposition within the world population.

Eurovision 2026 plunges deeper into political crisis as boycotts multiply

“Participating in Eurovision allows Israel to maintain the illusion that it is a modern and exemplary Western democracy, and thus to more easily conceal its criminal actions”, said the collective of 170 Belgian artists and cultural figures.

A lawyer’s account of his struggle on behalf of a victim of the “war on terror”

Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay

Jaber Mohammed, only one among hundreds of prisoners who faced a similar fate, lost five years of his life to a regime of abuse and torture, part of the imperialist reaction to the 9/11 attacks.

Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza

While Oborne offer a biting and passionate critique of the UK’s support for Israel and complicity in its genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, his disgust and moral outrage is no substitute for explaining its causes.

Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza

“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”

Roger Stahl discusses Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood with WSWS

Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”