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The recent government shutdown was a stark reminder that 42 million people across the United States rely on federal food benefits. That’s 12…
In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko explore how EU leaders are undermining Ukraine to justify their plans to…
When, in a few years’ time, almost everyone is claiming that they opposed Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, the world will remember…
Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally…
It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the…
The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having…
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction,…
How we lost the argument on Britain’s relationship with the European Union forever? What is the point in our nuclear weapons if…
Baristas have launched the largest strike in their company’s history and are standing firm until their demands are met. Thousands of baristas…
Across the political spectrum – with alarm on the right and delight on the left – the display of warmth from President Trump toward Zohran Mamdani…
Two of the most significant dates in my life as a progressive activist and organizer are April 4, 1968 and August of…
The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon city of…
The Trump administration’s stance on the Ukraine war is quite the roller-coaster. Initially, the Russo-Ukraine war would end “within 24 hours.” According…
On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed by Trump…
The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing…
Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof Patrick Bond, Director of the Centre for Social Change in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty…
Sometimes there is so much rage at a tyrannical government that millions of people are willing to participate in general strikes and…
Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a…
Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the…
Since February 19, a battle has raged over who pays taxes to Pretoria and for what, a technical and political fight about…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang Munchau debunks the “cordon sanitaire” or “firewall” orthodoxy that European centrist parties must never form…
Ever since the Internet was born, along with Big Tech, in the 1990s, the world has had a sense that we have…
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow…
The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes. On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about…
In the face of the international legal and political systems’ paralyzing silence and utter failure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide…
Interim judgment. Are you nervous? Or are things getting better? Who is winning? I refer to “him and his” versus “you and…
Colorado voters on Tuesday handily approved a pair of ballot measures to fully fund free meals for all K-12 public school students, give…
Turning the spotlight on the King while letting the barons off the hook will not stop Donald Trump and his copycats from…
Discussion of general strikes, nonviolent “people power” popular uprisings, and similar forms of mass revolt has become widespread in the movement to…
For more than two decades, Marwan Barghouti has sat behind Israeli bars—a living emblem of a brutal occupation that has denied Palestinians their freedom…
Has Donald Trump’s sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments…
This article is an adapted transcript from a talk given on October 10, 2025 (updated, October 28, 2025) for Economics for Everyone,…
Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn. A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot…
During the mid-term election next year, the Democratic Party hopes to regain lost ground on Capitol Hill by running a new crop of …
The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems…
On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan…
Icould not read Max Elbaum’s excellent piece without thinking about the late Jack O’Dell and his proposed Democracy Charter. But we shall get back…
In this discussion recorded in Athens, Grace Blakeley and Yanis Varoufakis expose how our so-called democracies have been captured by elites. From…
For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza, particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans,…
“I think we can do a lot, if a critical mass of organizations steps forward and develops a plan to go public…
Elphas: Marcus Zahaba Online Radio, serving you wherever you are. Four minutes after 12 p.m. Central African time, welcome to the Tuesday…
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for…
It’s October 22nd 2025. The shine of the recent No Kings outpouring of resistance is still with us. And what a shine…
Walden Bello is a leading figure in the alter-globalization movement and a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus. This is the…
Israel on Wednesday returned the bodies of dozens of Palestinians abducted during the Gaza genocide showing “signs of torture, mutilation, and execution,” as one US-based…
A single, candid statement by US President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on October 9 may illuminate the true calculus…
The terrain in which social strikes might occur in the US is mostly unknowable. So preparation can’t be for a specific type…
Israeli occupation forces killed numerous Palestinian civilians in Gaza on Tuesday in an apparent violation of a ceasefire that Israel’s government said…
On October 6th, 2025, the Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS), a Palestine Solidarity group in Olympia, Washington organized a gathering for its members.…
