Max Ajl

Max Ajl is an editor at Jacobin and Jadaliyya and is on Twitter @maxajl.

Latest from Max Ajl

Syriza’s Dead End: Greece’s Debt and the Elections

Syriza and its supporters committed to an electoral path of change. When that path failed, Greeks were already demobilized.

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

September 30, 2015

News Analysis

Israeli Tent Protests Ignore Link Between Neoliberalism, Occupation

A child amidst a makeshift tent camp during a demonstration in Jerusalem, July 31, 2011. (Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The New York Times) It started in…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

August 13, 2011

News Analysis

Egyptian Counterrevolution Struggling for a Breakthrough

A vendor arranges Egyptian flags before a morning prayer service at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, July 11, 2011. Almost six months after the Egypt revolution that successfully saw…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

July 17, 2011

The Palestine Papers, or How Everything You Thought You Knew About the Peace Process Was Wrong

Common wisdom is that the 20-year-old peace process has been edging towards a two-state solution, based on a formula that half the world can recite verbatim: borders following…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

February 10, 2011

Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation

Tweet Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the forces of revolution and those of counterrevolution. Hundreds of thousands of people – on Tuesday, February 1,…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

February 3, 2011

Return to Gaza

“It was like this during the war two years ago: hot days, brisk nights and the Mediterranean with no waves, windless, so strange,” Ahmed Bakry told me in…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

January 25, 2011

You Are Being Lied to About Dams

It’s a go. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva just signed an agreement to build the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River. It will be large:…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

September 8, 2010

The Late, Unlamented, Not-Really-a-Climate-Change Bill

Last week, Senate majority leader Harry Reid glumly announced that the Democratic leadership lacked the votes to push through even truncated carbon-limiting legislation, which would have called for…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

August 6, 2010

BP, Obama and the Economics of Disaster

The unceasing dribble of bad news from the Gulf of Mexico has been running before our eyes for weeks now: dead plankton; hypoxic zones looming and worsening, the…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

July 16, 2010

BP Is Only the Latest Killer of the Gulf

The news from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe keeps on worsening. First, we heard about a piddling 1,000 barrels per day. That number was from the Coast Guard. Then,…

by: Max Ajl,; Truthout

July 3, 2010