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Recent news reports brought to my attention something that I completely missed when it first happened almost two months ago: JD Vance…
Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New…
The doctor is in: diagnosing Europeansā āimaginary American voter syndromeā A necessary theoretical introduction: the least of Europeās problems, or at least…
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysisāsuch as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestineādoes not capture…
In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuās coalition and the global…
President Donald Trump promised to unleash mass deportations on immigrants during his presidential campaign. But he has gone much further, with the…
This past week was one for the history books. The German parliament amended the constitutional debt brake so as to enable unlimited…
Inducting Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its pre-2014 borders has been the only strategic aim EU leaders have allowed…
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysisāsuch as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestineādoes not capture…
Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and…
My journey into the realm of peopleās history began during my teenage years when I first read Howard Zinnās A Peopleās History…
U.S.-backed Israeli forces drew international condemnation Friday after bombing the only cancer hospital in the Gaza Strip, where more than 700 Palestinians including over…
I wonder how many people reading these words know the significance of April 19th to US Americans, and others, to all of us…
The South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, left Washington D.C. on March 21 after Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
It is crucial for any American administration to recognize that, regardless of political agendas, the views of the American public regarding the…
Earlier this month, Vietnam War veteran Paul Cox went to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center in St. Louis to…
ā ā ā ā ā ā ā The expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador to the United States highlights “diplomatic bullying” by the new U.S. administration, which should be opposed…
Israelās renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without equivocation that…
Resistance to Trumpest Fascism grows. Discussions, phone calls and emails, meetings, rallies, marches, and soon occupations and encampments. Desires, demands, confrontations, and…
The website of a certain pan-Arab media organization seems fixated on translating, commenting, or briefing its audience on everything that US and…
The attempted deportation of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, met with dramatic and widespread resistance, is one of the first, high profile, specifically…
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail,” warns a timeless Chinese proverb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however,…
At times like theseāwho am I kidding, when were there times like these?āone wants to stay in bed, bury oneās head, dream…
Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman argued Tuesday for ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population so that the Jewish people can…
The United States is a country with a long history of violence and oppression against poor people, women and minorities. And by…
How much joy is in your life these days? How much play in your resistance to all the fear, repression, violence, burnout,…
The conversation on settler colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, clearly demonstrated in the everyday…
The Democratic Party may have twice stymied Sen. Bernie Sanders’ White House ambitions, but the National Tour to Fight Oligarchy launched last month by the…
When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this…
International law is fighting for relevance. The outcome of this fight is likely to change the entire global political dynamics, which were shaped by…
Six weeks into the Trump presidency it is important to recognize that the rapidly growing MAGA resistance movement is turning out big…
Among the Republican voters experiencing buyerās remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin…
In part two, political economist Patrick Bond outlines the activities of Glencore and other South African energy corporations which continue to ship…
Language matters. Aside from its immediate impact on our perception of great political events, including war, language also defines our understanding of…
Iāve believed for many years that in the race against time to prevent ecosystem and societal meltdown because of climate heating and…
As Palestinians released from Israeli imprisonment recount torture and other abuse suffered at the hands of their former captors, the Trump administration…
Donald Trumpās power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a…
We have long argued that the Israeli war and genocide in Gaza must catalyze a change in the overall political discourse on…
Following decades of ongoing mineral extraction, environmental plunder, and the subsidization of the fossil fuel industry, the second Trump administrationās aggressive pro-drilling…
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of āsolidarity, not charity,ā in both fire relief and immigrant rights. When…
I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I donāt disagree with their shutting down…
In Washington, D.C., thereās now a ritual formula for labor gatherings outside a government office to protest the latest depredations of the…
Is todayās moment that different from all prior moments? Havenāt we endured extreme subterfuge forever? āDefense Departmentā? āServe the peopleā? āHealth and…
The results of Germanyās February 23 election have cemented a chilling trend that has increasingly characterized European politics in the 21st century:…
The Capitolās phone lines have been overwhelmed this month, and some Democrats are complaining about the deluge of calls from voters who implore them…
During his first month in office, President Donald Trump has signed a plethora of executive orders that have proclaimed a dramatic expansion…
Former President Donald Trump continues to assert that the Palestinian people will be forcibly expelled from the Gaza Strip, with neighboring countries…
Since Donald Trumpās second term began on Jan. 20, 2025, his administration has aggressively launched a deluge of multipronged attacks on immigrants,…
Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Gaza resistance was the main reason behind Israelās forced decision to accept a ceasefire and begin its gradual…
In this video, Yanis Varoufakis lays bare whatās really at stake in Germanyās upcoming election: Germany votes this Sundayābut donāt be fooled.…
