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The presidential campaign has entered the anything goes phase for the far right. Polls, are being used as weapons. Anything goes to keep Lula from winning the runoff. Anything goes
President Donald Trump has been less than coy about possibly ramping up his illegal war of aggression against Iran after the mid-term elections, and now states the United States would
The wave of high-school protests in France, which began in late September 2026 in the suburbs of Paris and spread to many other cities, has revived an old question on
How does one resist dispossession and displacement, ongoing genocide, culturicide, scholasticide and epistemicide, and all forms of erasure of a people’s past, present and future? The answer: Resist by all
Tyrants and demagogues love sports and the governing bodies that preside over them. Despite strictures, injunctions and warnings about dealing with unsavoury regimes, a sporting body or organisation can always
The Green Party has put the conversation back on track: the problem is not the lack of creative solutions to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The problem is Zionism itself.
Dear Nizal, On 23 September, Spanish police evicted 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from the Madrid apartment where she had lived for 71 years. After buying her flat, property company Urbagestión had
It is no secret that Lula’s campaign is facing a David versus Goliath battle. As many people have put it, this is “the toughest and most decisive campaign of our
The irony is difficult to escape. Haile Selassie became a symbol of resistance to foreign aggression while denying Eritreans the right to self-determination. Abiy Ahmed was rewarded for accepting Eritrea’s
Northampton, Massachusetts masquerades as one of the most progressive cities in America – a place where police raided a homeless encampment and took away warm clothes on a cold, rainy
In the winter of 2013, Sarait Martinez and I spent our Saturdays in Madera, a midsized farmworker town in California’s San Joaquin Valley. There, in a classroom at the Martin
The auguries are raining down hard. Think or Sink. Comply or Die. Look Up or be Left Out. And so, with these not-so-gentle threats, it has come to pass that
