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The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel’s breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable…
"SEIU has evolved into a dictatorship in which Andy Stern and others have consolidated power, decision-making authority, and resources among a few."…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it’s comforting for the truth to be stated the way…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
In September 2001, a group of terrorists from al Qaeda killed over three thousand Americans in New York. US friends and enemies…
The plot, so unexpectedly, thickened in Iraq on a Sunday like no other. The two main actors – US President George W.…
Not surprisingly, the swift unraveling of the global economy combined with the ascent to the U.S. presidency of an African-American liberal has…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to…
(December 16, 2008) — The rise and fall of Teamster reformer Ron Carey, who died December 11, is still a much contested…
As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country,…
Reading about the involvement of SEIU International vice-president Tom Balanoff in wire-tapped conversations leading to the arrest of Rod Blagojevich on Dec.…
The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world by refusing to take part…
It’s only been a month since hundreds of thousands of union members and their families helped Barack Obama win key “battleground states.” …
World media rashly celebrated the "historic" security pact that allows for US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after…
In Canada, the Conservative minority government might just become the opposition in parliament this week, replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition with support…
AK: The economic crisis is felt acutely in the US, but has now spread to the entire world, even to countries (in…
Today’s Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini…
President Elect Barack Obama wants to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan. But the US/NATO occupation is less popular than…
When Gaza’s electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It’s neither…
The Election The word that immediately rolled off of every tongue after the presidential election was “historic.” And rightly so. A…
Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with similar tragedies. But their losses…
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (University of California Press, 2008; $30.14) Author,…
The message from last weekend’s G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: …
(An earlier version of this commentary was delivered as the Ted Wheelwright Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on Sept. 1,…
The Communal Councils In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating…
The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have…
I spent the week Oct 25-Nov 1 at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). Because a friend of mine gets the occasional…
My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about…
While millions of Americans are celebrating the election of Barack Obama, the wealthy and corporate interests who dished out billions of dollars…
Two days before he lost the election, John McCain summarized what had become the central message of his campaign: “Redistribute the wealth,…
Imagine it is January 2, 2011. Imagine that Barack Obama has been President of the U.S. for two full years. …
“It was, however, the inauguration of a president [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] who promised to look to the forgotten man and the passage…
At a recent conference I was repeatedly asked about the prospects for a third Palestinian uprising, or Intifada. The question, although seemingly…
The ‘Joe the Plumber’ story has unraveled, yet Senator McCain continues to make reference to what is, in fact, a mythical character.…
Its banks secured in the warmth of the southern spring, Australia is not news. It ought to be. An epic scandal of…
When last seen on the picket-line, Puerto Rican teachers were fighting their way through police barricades to appeal to fellow workers from the…
The 25th annual World Food Day, marked on 16 October, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or…
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: As the financial crisis and the economic crisis deepens, working people are asking, "How bad is it…
MICHAEL GOODMAN, REAL NEWS MEMBER: We support The Real News Network because we want to have independent journalism, and in a democracy…
President Chavez managed to hand Human Rights Watch a major public relations victory with his recent expulsion of its America’s Director José…
Europe has showed greater willingness in recent months to play a larger part in the Middle East’s most protracted conflict, that of…
Am I the only American voter who’s getting annoyed by all the faux-populist obeisance and condescending lip-service that’s being paid to “average…
"This extraordinary capacity to finance not on past wealth but on the present value of future anticipated cash flows is at the…
October 3, 2008 — The global economy’s vast financial sector expansion – in the context of productive sector stagnation tendencies – has…
It was encouraging to see, as I was literally sitting at my computer getting ready to start this column, an email from…
I would like to talk about the current crisis. How is it that so many people could see it coming, but the…
I had almost literally just finished reading William Gumede’s acclaimed biography of South African President Thabo Mbeki, Thabo Mbeki and the Battle…
Thirty years ago, unions came closer to strengthening the Wagner Act than at any other time since Congress enacted labor’s “Magna Carta”…
