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AI is already very nearly everywhere. So far, it is no big deal, right? It assembles data, controls this or that machine,…
Review of Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Higgins (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). Like old soldiers around…
In the narrative of mainstream U.S. media, oligarchs — super-rich, politically connected individuals with influence over the state — exist only in…
Part 4 of this series contains the following chapter: 5. Strategy for Social Self-Defense Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for…
Part 3 of this series contains the following chapter: 4. Social Self-Defense in the First Trump Regime Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny:…
Part 2 of this series contains the following chapter: 3. What We Must Prepare For Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus…
On the last day of 2024, the deputy general counsel for the House of Representatives formally accepted delivery of a civil summons…
The latest news from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) so-called “Protecting the Homeland” operation in the Jenin refugee camp paints a grim picture.…
There’s really no one in the Senate that can equal Senator Risa Hontiveros in terms of rendering service to the Filipino people.…
Yanis Varoufakis dives into the key global trends and challenges shaping 2025. From the return of Trump to the shifting power of…
Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Part…
By Jeremy Brecher A Report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, Co-published by ZNetwork.org January 1, 2025 Click to download the PDF…
The Peoples’ Platform Europe will take place in Vienna from February 14-16, 2025. Under the motto “Reclaim the Initiative”, it aims to…
With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a…
Chomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.
The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a…
Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the…
This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless…
Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern…
President-elect Donald Trump said at a conference for young conservatives in Arizona this past Sunday that the official policy of his upcoming…
I was recently invited to give a talk at MIT on campus organizing and battling against Trumpism. This was because in 1965,…
Almost exactly a month ago President-Elect Trump suffered his first major political defeat when Ultra-MAGA Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his name after…
Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different kind of censorship,…
This fall, shortly after the election, the House passed a dangerous piece of legislation that many are calling the “nonprofit killer” bill.…
This week on Talk World Radio, we welcome back Jeremy Brecher whose latest book is called The Green New Deal From Below
Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road…
The December 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the public outrage over the state of healthcare it sparked, is a…
On June 22, 1941, Operation Barbarossa commenced with a blaze of artillery, accompanied by aircraft bombardment and massive troop advances. The German…
“Jesus recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming,…
A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The reason behind this…
Trump is a pestilence, an abomination. Really. He is. No more debate. It is as evident as a cloud of locusts. It…
Notwithstanding its many downsides, the era of neoliberal globalization had one significant claim to success: the growing wealth of once-poor countries, based…
Empire and injustice are not abstract concepts – they shape our daily lives. Awareness alone won’t change that. We can read the…
A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The reason behind this…
The toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was cheered by U.S. President Joe Biden and other major Western leaders, like French President Emmanuel…
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated…
During his campaign, Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handsomely in exchange for funding his campaign. Within weeks of winning…
France’s National Assembly approved a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Wednesday — just three months after he was appointed…
A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-status…
On December 4, 1969, Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police Department.…
The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the…
Online Talk for MIT Coalition Against Apartheid by Michael Albert, a radical political economist who was MIT student body president and a…
“I have long believed that we need an alternative to the Democrat and Republican parties, and since 1974 I have acted on…
On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to…
Are you like me? Has getting out of bed become a serious challenge? Has getting back in bed become a beckoning distraction?…
During his campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handsomely in exchange for funding his campaign. Within weeks of…
The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are a diplomatic…
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well,”…
To resist and eventually overcome the looming authoritarian national government, we need to create bastions of what the Polish activists who overthrew…
The federal government, whether under Democratic or Republican leadership, has failed to address the climate crisis, instead investing in greater production of…