The Israel-Palestine conflict is not only a severe human rights issue and the longest ongoing military occupation in the post-WWII era, but a major source for region-wide tension

Not long after the first stirrings of revolt began in Tuzla last month, the western liberal press was already lining up to praise the boldness of the Bosnian people

A revolt of the well-off, not a ‘terror campaign’

Once we stop Shunning Venezuela and we start broadly Understanding Venezuela, what can we do to aid Venezuela?

Witnessing a brutal occupation, where permanent insecurity and maximum humiliation are the norm

Here is my position in a nutshell. The Ukrainian popular uprising was legitimate. It has been taken over by an illegitimate and illegal government in which the extreme right has four ministers

In the 21st century, women of the working classes have entered the global political stage in an astonishing array of movements

Errico Malatesta (1853-1932) was an important Italian anarchist that contributed, in theory and practice, to the trajectory of anarchism in a lot of countries

All states act in their own interests. States do not have moral values. What we need to count on is the civil society – and Russia has one

An extensive exchange between Michael Albert and Gar Alperovitz on Parecon and Pluralist Commenwealth…

Why, do you suppose, war has not yet broken out between Russia and Ukraine? The answer is very simple: no one plans to go to war, and no one can

Our current economic model, he said, will be of little use to us in an age of ecological deterioration and growing scarcities

The enemy of your enemy might still be your enemy

Often the attempt to maintain secrecy is motivated by the need to guarantee the security of powerful domestic sectors

What are the dimensions of the current economic crisis in the Ukraine? And its origins in the preceding decade?

These two commentaries were written in January and February 2014 – before the fall of the Viktor Yanukovich regime and subsequent events

People are confused about Venezuela. Why conflicts? Who is protesting? At what scale? What is the government response? What are the deeper issues? Even more, what do the deeper issues and possible responses portend for the future?

Glenn Greenwald and Michael Albert discuss the difficulties of doing good journalism within the confines of mainstream media, secrecy and corporations and Greenwald’s new media project – The Intercept. This interview is published in collaboration with New Left Project

These days in TED talks and tech-world conversation, commerce is described as art and as revolution and huge corporations are portrayed as agents of the counterculture

The NSA often identifies targets based on controversial metadata analysis and cell-phone tracking technologies