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A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps. A 2024 Treasury Department report articulated the leading cause…
Your chance to put Yanis Varoufakis on the spot. Politics, economics, philosophy ā or something completely unexpected. Nothing is off the table.…
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capitalānetworked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And…
It is tempting to argue that Israelās new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual warābut the reality is more complex. Not that…
A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the illegality of the war and…
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A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The…
The use of sun, wind, and water rather than fossil fuels to produce energy is transforming economies around the world. How far…
In the aftermath of last weekās big meeting of the Democratic National Committee in New Orleans, supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance have…
What went wrong over the last decade ā and what can we learn from it? In this panel from DiEM25ās Resistance Is…
In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically shallowā a…
According to most mainstream media accounts, a āpolitical earthquakeā has taken place in Hungary. The European far rightās poster boy and MAGA…
There is a publishing house in Germany called Unrast Verlag that recently came to my attention. From its web site, I think…
Can the left still win, and what does resistance look like in a time of war, inequality, and political crisis? At DiEM25ās…
After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is more fragile than ever, and now seems…
Israelās latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut…
āIt is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in…
The knives are outāand this time, they are not aimed at Tehran, but at Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the ever…
Iran said Wednesday that it is blocking shipping through the Strait of Hormuz over Israelās escalating bombardment of Lebanon, actions that are…
The moment a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran was announcedābrokered through Pakistani mediation on April 7āIran declared that Lebanon was…
When I was in High School, I used to wonder how did the German people put up with Hitler and his regime?…
After decades of bipartisan deference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the likely contenders for the next Democratic presidential nomination…
I was honored to be in Paris with 40,000 attendees at this amazing summit of changemakers towards a livable planet:Ā https://www.changenow.world/Ā I spoke to…
Trumpism is waging a war against the people of U.S. and the rest of the world. It is an authoritarian, bullying playbook…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
āIsrael must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,ā UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya…
In the aftermath of the āNo Kings Dayā demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interestāand concernāthat in many cities the…
āI call up France, Macron ā whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.ā It is…
The war on Iran has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history, as oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz…
Does President Donald Trump have an endgame in Iran? Are personality traits a factor in Trumpās foreign policy behavior? How different is Trump from…
Iām pretty certain, based on experiences and study, that a very big majority of US Americans who understand the need for progressive,…
Energy runs the world, and how energy is produced and used is undergoing a historic transformation. As UN secretary general AntĆ³nio Guterres…
You live somewhere. You care not only about there, but about elsewhere. You care about your home, neighborhood, state, country, region, continent,…
The judgment on the Trump administrationās war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the…
Some are expressing frustration that Iranās conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the…
Those who had the misfortune of growing up in a war zone require no explanation. War is hell, it is trueābut for…
Had I not read Angus Deatonās Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, I would not have learned…
Iāve been surprised the past week to hear some people, not many but some, telling me that they or people they know…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Yes, for us to diminish and then end escalating wars, for us to stop and then end onrushing Fascism, and for us…
The Democratic Party has lost to Donald Trump and MAGA twice, and is continuing to lose working-class voters by clinging to corporate…
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or ātargeted killingā as policy. Now, in its…
The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire…
Who better to tell the story of Palestine than a Palestinian? In his new book “Before the Flood: a Gaza Family Memoir,”…
I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see…
The war in Iran, besides being dangerous, is also very interesting because itās an example of asymmetric warfare. The US is obviously…
US President Donald Trump did not invent the phrase āfake news,ā but he undoubtedly transformed it into a political weapon, relentlessly accusing…
Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. āThere are moments in which a nation faces…
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring…
How do you bomb a country āwithout mercyāāand end up strengthening it? When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would…
