The bizarre spectacle of Trump’s candidacy has one word on everyone’s mind: “Fascism”

Not only did the Americans destroy the central piece of our civilizational and collective experience that spanned millennia, it took pleasure in degrading us in the process

Trump’s prominence also reflects the combined complicity of both major parties in the deepening crisis of capitalism

Could Beijing adopt an anti-imperial currency policy – or next week, will it become a tighter sub-imperial ally of Western financiers?

Hollande is silencing those facing the worst impacts of climate change and its monstrous violence

Interview that looks through the complexities to the essentials on the current situation in Venezuela

As key legislative elections approach, lies spread by international press are debunked by long time government critics

Impossible to ignore the grave implications of this event – a Russian jet shot down by the Turks around the Syrian-Turkish border. Stern…

Interview on the economics of war, terror and refugees

How did Venezuela get into this difficult economic situation? What happened since Hugo Chavez’s death? Did the project derail, get stuck, hit a speed bump, or crash altogether?

The real questions now are: can Maduro deepen the revolution before time runs out, and can Kirchnerismo remain a potent political force after Sunday’s loss?

What we are seeing now on the West Bank is not so much a unique intifada as yet another courageous expression of resistance to the occupation

Snowden has revealed the extensive espionage and penetration of the NSA in Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, the lifeblood of the South American nation and fuel of Chavez’s Bolivarian revolution

The last time there was this much climate momentum was in 2008

After Paris, macho language about “pitiless war” defines the contours of leadership. Little else is on offer. It is red meat to our emotions

 Bernie Sanders has a plan to expand, not “save,” Social Security—and it should be popular

Socialism goes mainstream, but what is socialism and why care?

During the 1930s, conservatives repeatedly alleged that Franklin Roosevelt was really a socialist. Today, Bernie Sanders said they were right

The signing of the TPP agreement in Atlanta, Georgia, on Oct. 4, 2015, represents in a sense the founding “Constitutional Convention” of global corporate government

The discourse of war is already upon us. But it must be resisted