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California Governor Gavin Newsom has made headlines this winter by vowing to defeat a proposal for a one-time 5 percent tax on…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
“These verdicts are a huge blow to government ministers who have tried to portray Palestine Action as a violent group to justify…
Two Human Rights Watch employees—the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team—resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right…
The underlying cause of the ongoing and horrific US intervention in Venezuela is capitalism and resource imperialism. This drives the US to…
US witnessed many ICE-related deaths in 2026. This is a Power 98.7 podcast. Now we’re talking. Subscribe to Power 98.7 podcasts in…
The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules—or designing new ones—to fit US strategic interests. This…
The United States is on a very dark path under President Donald Trump, argues political scientist, political economist, author, and journalist C. J. Polychroniou in…
When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Jeeez, Don, I hear your support is tanking. Bummer. Are you looking for helpful hints? I think I have some. You like…
January 29, 2026, marks the second year since the Israeli military, using U.S. provisioned weapons, murdered Hind Rajab. Had she lived, this…
Trump’s Board of Peace is an intricate play to maintain hegemony in the face of China’s rise, sparking talk of “a new…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trump’s leading opponent and the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee.…
“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War…
Ever since the 1990s, when to the longstanding cooptation of the Western working class by social democracy was added the collapse of…
A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza…
At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Exactly a year ago today, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. He took over a…
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…
Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the reality behind the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ that…
Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not…
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…
