The “moral compass” of the anti-war movement has not shifted. It is no better or worse since the day it was founded. Meanwhile the wars continue. I hope there will be a large turnout on Saturday

You may remember Martese Johnson as the University of Virginia student who was slammed to the ground by three police officers and brutally…

The region must aggressively democratize media to block a return to neoliberalism

Why the Gulf States, the Kurds, the Turks, the Sunnis, and the Shia Won’t Fight America’s War

Efforts to police offensive language have seldom achieved their goals, and often been turned against the groups they were intended to protect

Progress against racial injustice is stagnant, yet the demands of student activists are still widely dismissed

Sanders offers a hard target to reduce carbon pollution beyond the current administration, vowing to cut emissions 40 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050

On Dec. 6 Venezuela held its 20th election in 17 years and one of its most difficult yet. With the opposition upping…

Why It’s Self-Defeating and Has No End

Finding Donald Trump’s appeal through “The Apprentice”

When failures occur, progress requires taking responsibility for what one could have done differently and then making changes

The crackdown of the Muslim Brotherhood has strengthened ISIS in Egypt

On the crackdown against ​COP21 protesters​ and why “system change not climate change” is more than a slogan

The official neglect that caused deadly floods

The ironies of all this are all too obvious. The Belgian cops should have been reading Alde’emeh’s book, not condemning him for having copies of it in his car

The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has so far gained just 46 seats in parliament while their political opponents, the MUD, have gained 99 out of a total of 167

Here is a condensed version of President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, unofficially translated into plain English

Turning Up the Heat on History

[Prefatory Note: the post below is based on an opinion piece published by Middle East Eye on December 1, 2015 under the…

It is time to end our self-defeating wars, our support for political repression and the erection of barriers against desperate refugees so that their voices can emerge again