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The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearlyānot only in material terms, but also in geopolitical…
Is revolution a single event? Or is it a process? Perhaps a process made possible by the many gaining certain invaluable insights…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallout from the AfDās electoral breakthrough in Germany,…
The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored a landslide victory this past Sunday in Germanyās Saxony-Anhalt state election, although it…
The lesson of 9/11 should be that war is not the answer to any of the problems facing the United States. After…
Three days after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush stood behind…
Isn’t it weird that Labor Day seems increasingly irrelevant. Yes, there may be an editorial in a paper or news outlet, but…
This essay continues an ideology sequence excerpted from the book, Liberating Theory, which myself, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Mel King, Lydia…
āLet no one build walls to divide us,Walls of hatred nor walls of stone.Come greet the dawn and stand beside us;Weāll live…
The death of Palestinian artist Sliman Anis Mansour stirred powerful memories. He passed away at Al-Makassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem on…
A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. During…
Residents discuss their opposition to a proposed data center in Lockart, Texas. (Photo: Caldwell / Hays Examiner. May be republished with attribution.)…
Thereās no shortcut to freedom. No, thereās not. Freedom is a constant struggle. Yes it is. But Freedom,the centuries-long fightall over the…
Industrial union building in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left. If organized labor in the…
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution sponsored by Republican Study Committee Member Jeff Crank (CO-05) to condemn socialism āin…
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and data centers in particular, are generating an unprecedented resistance ā in Texas they call it the Texas Data…
There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the…
Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, āThe United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America…
The following article continues a sequence taken from a book,Ā Liberating Theory, which seven writer/activists collectively co-wrote. The seven authors were myself, Leslie…
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday met with the United States Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III. In a post on…
If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the mainstream economic orthodoxy that reserve currency status grants America…
As a mother of two children who has often been on the losing side of family battles against screen time, Iāve been…
Bernie Sanders has recently taken up AI issues but I have a feeling most leftists are skeptical of AIās critics, not particularly…
Itās a good thing that labor journalist and author Matt Witt was not running for governor of Wisconsin this year like DSA…
Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second…
Donald Trumpās rise to power, especially during his second term in office, has changed the political culture of the United States. He…
Forty years ago seven writer/activists collectively co-wrote a book titled,Ā Liberating Theory. The seven authors were myself, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel,…
This week marks the beginning of Brazil’s presidential campaign, with the two front-runnersācurrent President Luiz InĆ”cio Lula da Silva and Senator FlĆ”vio…
Weāve been hearing a lot of panicky warnings lately after Democratic primary voters chose socialists and other leftists instead of āmoderatesā in…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk dominant economic orthodoxies surrounding wealth taxes as a quick-fix silver…
Christopher NolanāsĀ The Odyssey has returned Homerās epic to the center of popular culture, a feat that must be welcomed. Many have asked…
Data centers are large warehouse-like structures filled with digital electronics that process artificial intelligence (AI). According to the International Energy Agency, āconventionalā…
What should be done about the worldās richest man, and all that he represents? Here in South Africa, it is tempting to…
It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly…
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024…
The chapter from What Is To Be Undone that this last article addressing Marxism Leninism offers, like other chapters I have excerpted for the…
The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has…
When my book Technofeudalism was published, I had not imagined that it would be embraced by the likes of Steve Bannon but…
This article was conceived and written back in the early 1970s and excerpted from a book published in 1974, What Is To Be…
āDonald Trump is running the biggest grift in American history. The unprecedented scale of the presidentās corruption was exposed by the recent…
The previous commentaries have described how people in cities, states, and communities have been expanding fossil free energy production and reducing energy…
So much going on. Existential crises. Fundamental needs. Short and long term agendas. Sounds heard all around the world. Much to think…
Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify…
In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the āArabā side of a…
The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.…
Most immigration debates focus on the border. But the real story starts much earlier ā with trade deals, war, inequality, climate breakdown,…
The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends…
āThe biggest shift in consciousness? Iād say it began in 2026. Really took off by 2028. Thatās when the working-class vote for…
Having recently presented Classical Marxist theory, then Leninist strategy, and last time Bolshevik practice, this essay moves on to critically assess Leninist…
