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Twenty four years ago I wrote an essay titled “Resurrect the R Word.” To many people back then revolution meant chaos, violence,…
The past year has completely discredited any claim that choosing between the Democratic and Republican parties would be merely a matter of “pick your…
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail From January 5-7 I…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
The US attack on Venezuela and its kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife has launched the US on a new round…
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following…
It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military…
My goal in this oddly titled and rather short episode is to suggest a near universally applicable strategic measuring stick for choosing…
The new year began on a very foreboding note. First was the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its President with…
In the U.S., seventeen million people, across multiple generations, have a shared personal identity based on their past military service. About 1.3…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing…
As the Senate voted to advance a War Powers Resolution on Venezuela on January 8th, Republican Senator Susan Collins declared that she…
Professor Peter Bohmer joins the podcast to discuss undercover operations targetting leftists. It is deals with major repression in San Diego including…
Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not…
Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the reality behind the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ that…
Charles Dickens wrote, “Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” It was an advisory. An attitude. Your neighbor might write, “Nothing…
KEY TAKEAWAYS This Time, Merely Exiting the Litter Box Won’t Cut it The year 2026 commenced with a new war: the U.S.’…
I have met Maduro, Delcy Rodriguez too. And before them Chavez. I have walked around the streets of Caracas. Through other locales…
The US currently has two overlapping food crises. One is the elimination of food programs for the needy. According to the Center for…
It’s good to enter the new year with MAGA divided, Trump down in the polls and forced to pull the National Guard…
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did…
Yanis Varoufakis reflects on 2025 — the year Europe fell apart — and issues a warning for 2026. War, de-industrialisation, austerity, and…
It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But…
The world can become a gigantic garbage can. The world can become a liberatory laboratory of fulfillment. Which will it be? To…
On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white…
Grassroots organizations around the United States, with little to no support from local authorities, have spent much of the past year defending…
Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip…
At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23…
The term ‘hypocrisy’ is the most convenient term, but certainly not the most apt to describe the inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song…
A US judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked two federal agencies from arresting noncitizens at immigration courthouses in the San Francisco area, a ruling hailed…
President Donald Trump—the self-described “most anti-war president in history”—has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as…
The December 14 mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, aimed at the Jewish community during Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi Beach, stunned the world.…
One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a document titled…
The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens…
Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the…
The US Department of Justice on Friday released a massive—but incomplete—trove containing hundreds of thousands of records related to the late convicted sex offender…
For the last month or so there have been two small flags flying prominently outside the front door of my and my…
In conversation with Yanis Varoufakis, Leader of MeRA25, the Greek political party belonging to DiEM25, Economist, Academic and Former Greek Finance Minister.…
US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is reportedly set to be announced before the year’s end. This news coincides with increasing reports that…
Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, which formalizes the ideological shift that U.S. foreign policy has taken under Trump 2.0, has won praise in Moscow…
Zackie Achmat is a veteran South African political activist and a leading authority on the role of boycotts in the anti-apartheid movement. Mazin Qumsiyeh is…
It is hard not to notice the word “socialism” appearing steadily more often in steadily more places. Some appearances of the word…
Ten years after Donald Trump first ran for president, he stands at the helm of Titanic America. How did this happen? No…
Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional,…
Israel and its partners continue waging genocide against Palestinian people. Those who, so far, have survived the hideous attacks since October 7,…
Is Donald Trump the worst president in US history? Is Trumpism just about Trump? What lies ahead after Trump? More of the same or a return…
South Africa says it will step back from next year’s G20 meetings after the U.S. indicated it won’t extend an invitation, citing…
First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the…
Jeremy Brecher is a co-founder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network forSustainability. He is the author of more than fifteen…
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