The more the Left focuses on the most prescient issues of our time – ecology, militarism and economics – the more likely people will be to gravitate toward leftist political organizations and movements
There are future radicals in the midst. Who’s going to organize them? Who will be their mentors?
When I was stationed in Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines from 2003-2005, I didn’t know what the repercussions of the war would be, but I knew there would be a reckoning.
Explaining the rise of Donald Trump requires examining White America
Leftists should be demanding radically different political-economic arrangements – in Russia and around the world
After 14 years of War on Terror the West is great at fomenting barbarism and creating failed states
The Left needs to be resilient and serious, because the future isn’t going to be nonviolent
What happened to the U.S. antiwar movement?
The war in Afghanistan was a taboo topic even for the antiwar movement (2002-2007)
Alternative political parties scare the hell out of the existing political class and their corporate masters
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