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President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States…
The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and…
RĆ¼meysa ĆztĆ¼rk, one of several pro-Palestine scholars kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration under its dubious interpretation of an 18th-century law…
Prof. Patrick Bond sat down with the MRN to offer insights into the reality behind the rhetoric on Israel. He explains the…
I bet you agree that we need to persistently resist Trumpian fascism. āSmash Trump. Sink his administration. Replace both.ā I said that…
āOur opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by. . . choosing to let…
The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and…
When Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen handsomely to reclaim the French presidency in 2022, the liberal establishment was in ecstasy. Their…
āWe were so close,ā Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones…
Last week, Trump administration officials blasted Germany after a 1,100-page report from that countryās intelligence agency found that the Alternative for Germany…
The Bandung Conference in April 1955 has achieved the status of a mythical moment in the history of the Global South. There…
When President Trumpās cabinet picks trooped up to Capitol Hill earlier this year for Senate confirmation hearings, hardly any boasted about their…
I know you have lives to lead. Friends and parties to enjoy. Tests to take and grades to earn. Jobs to be…
In the early hours of May 2, the quiet of night was shattered aboard the Conscience, a civilian vessel anchored in international waters,…
Press freedom in the United States has fallen to its lowest level since Reporters Without Borders (also known as Reporters Sans FrontiĆØres…
The imposition of tariffs on countries around the world has had a major impact on South Africa and many other countries in…
The last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on 30 April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam…
A seemingly strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israelās Channel 12 when he decided, on April 22, to publish one of the…
Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago. Its great advantage was its sharp deviation from classical…
For my father’s generation, Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn’t just another Arab leader; he set the standard by which all others have been…
Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattanās Penn Station on the…
Not a day goes by without a new shock to Americans and our neighbors around the world from the Trump administration. On…
Back in 2016, I was convinced that, had Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential nomination, he would have beaten Donald Trump because he would…
To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that…
“Rights are granted to those who align with power,” Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This poignant statement…
In 2022, Pope Francis created a will expressing his desire that just one word be inscribed on the stone marking his burial place: Franciscus. Franciscus,…
Growing up, I had virtually no contact with people who identified themselves as Catholics. Perhaps some of my friends and acquaintances in…
How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay…
In the first hundred days of the Trump regime, actions against his juggernaut have swelled from small local demonstrations to nationwide days…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed…
The following is a talk prepared for the āStop Trump and for Mutual AidĀ Rallyā, put on byĀ Evergreen Resistance, part of…
The Future Hope column below was published on July 5, 2020. It is essentially a review of the book, āCitizen Tom Paine,ā…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few remaining…
Imagine you are about to crack open a new book and begin reading. The opening sentenceĀ goes like this: āIt was the…
There are two important anniversaries at the end of this week. Saturday, April 19th is the day the American Revolution against King George…
Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more…
The ACLU on Friday revealed new details about the Trump administration’s plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in 10…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling with no noted dissents affirming a federal judgeās order compelling President Donald Trumpās…
While waiting for the EUās response to the Trump Shock (donāt hold your breath for evidence of intelligent life from Brusselsā¦), those…
In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israelās internal security agency, only…
We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldnāt agree…
An Israeli human rights group on Monday published a report in which Israel Defense Forces officers and soldiers who took part in…
Something is in the air: A perception that American democracy and livable conditions for working people may only be saved by the…
One of the principal difficulties facing the Democratic Party establishment and most leaders of organized labor is a failure to accept a fundamental reality:…
āMillionsā and ā2.3 millionāāthese are the numbers I am seeing from national organizers of the historic April 5 Hands Off demonstrations yesterday…
Donald Trumpās paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on āLiberation…
On February 22, 2024, China’s Ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. His testimony, like that of a number of…
MLK was murdered 57 years ago today…and many of us have still not come to grips with the fact that there is…
The phrase “civil war” is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli…
President Donald Trump has said ātariffā is āthe most beautiful word in the dictionary.ā He claims tariffs will restore American trade supremacy,…
