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On the occasion of Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery, President Trump took a moment to complain that the…
Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand…
Rhetorically asking whether ‘a wider regional war can be avoided’, GeoTrends had noted in September 2024 that ‘the Israeli government’s gaze is…
On June 24 and 25, the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) will strut around the streets of The Hague…
My first years of progressive activism and organizing took place during the presidency of Richard Nixon, who, without a doubt, led one…
As consultants Jara Dean-Coffey and Jill Casey noted in their recent paper “Strategy for Now,” published at The Foundation Review: “Amid growing…
On the early morning of 13 June, Israel launched an aerial assault on Iran, killing over 224 people to date. This is…
“Freedom isn’t free” is a slogan I have heard much of my adult life, almost always associated with praising our military and the sacrifice…
The huge decentralized turnout for No Kings Day has shown that grassroots power can be a major force against the momentum of…
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is at a critical turning point: while violent conflicts persist in the east of the country,…
I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several…
Israel’s consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member…
The Police State performance On Sunday, June 8, my partner and I were at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary museum in Downtown Los…
“The fog crept in on little cat feet.” — Carl Sandburg, Fog (1916) Eventually, people in countries that are in the process of flipping…
The Global Environmental Outlook (GEO), compiled by the member states of the United Nations, reports on a range of planetary disasters, including…
The Talmud contends that “Whosoever saves a single life is as if he had saved the whole world; whosoever destroys a single…
As Israeli forces unlawfully boarded the Madleen, a boat carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, and detained the volunteers on the vessel on Monday, approximately 1,000 pro-Palestinian…
Noam Chomsky offered a rule of thumb for predicting the ‘mainstream’ response to crimes against humanity: ‘There is a way to calibrate…
The Palestinian town of Bruqin, just off Route 446 in the northern West Bank, was founded in the Roman era as a…
The Rally We Chose to Forget In February 1939, more than 20,000 American citizens packed Madison Square Garden to salute a portrait…
