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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, 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…
When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent ādear colleagueā letter, its second sentence cited āthe position articulated byā¦ pro-peace organizations like…
Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship…
āWe who think about politics all the time rarely have a good handle on whatās going on in the lives and minds…
Outside theology, the term āAntichristā has a broader, more secular, and highly descriptive sense. It names a powerful, grossly malevolent person who…
Despite the raving reviews for the new, and apparently monumental, film The Odyssey, there is something that much of the mainstream media…
When I think about the left-wing reformers who are winning office as Democrats, I recognize that they need to govern alongside people…
Most of this article, like the prior related ones, was conceived and written back in the early 1970s and excerpted from a…
In Trumpās America the Greentech Revolution is being waged from below. Although Trumpās attacks have slowed the advance of fossil-free technologies in…
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israelās general electionsālikely to…
While Trump conducts his war against Greentech, many US states are forging ahead with energy expansion based on sun, wind, and water.…
Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at…
Continuing a presentation of the components of Classical Marxism Leninism preparatory to assessing the systemās merits and demerits as ideology for contemporary…
A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare…
“I just want to say there was tremendous love in that room,” President Trump declared as he wrapped up the 2026 NATO…
Nuclear nonproliferation requires national sovereignty; states must believe that they can preserve their security without nuclear weapons. Where international law is respected,…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau analyse the structural decay of American hegemony at its 250-year milestone,…
This article positively presents Classical Marxist Theory as one part of Classical Marxist Leninist ideology. I hope it will introduce the conceptual…
The following has been edited for clarity and length. Norman Solomon: Youāve downplayed the importance of the individual in history. But the…
There has been something almost surreal in President Donald Trumpās efforts to both whitewash US history as well as make 4 July…
I recently had the chance to send a message to the President of Ireland, Her Excellency Catherine Connolly. President Connolly is a…
ā¦ Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency, Woodrow Wilsonās Committee on Public Information (CPI), created during World War…
Susan George passed away in February of this year. It is good to have waited this long for the movement to give…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the fallout of Keir Starmerās resignation to expose a broader…
In this interview, you’ll learn -Why Mazin moved back to Palestine when he had a comfortable life in the United States -How…
