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On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UNās history. Article…
One of the rare times that Noam Chomskyās name has been mentioned on a big national NPR program came two months ago.…
In January 2023, nearly a year before the latest United Nations climate conference began, there was deep concern and alarm over the…
I want to thank the organizers of this important event. We are living in a time of many crises. Letās draw strength…
āTis the season for holiday sales. But on the other side of the planet, thereās a high cost for those low prices.…
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation, I was in a debate with the English historian E.P. Thompson about the…
DH: Last year when we were in touch you said you thought COP27 āshould be the most important meeting in the history…
Donald Trumpās electoral defeat in 2020 and Jair Bolsonaroās loss to Lula in Brazil in 2022, along with Rodrigo Duterteās leaving the…
āA habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants.ā āBertrand…
It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if…
The major parties on Capitol Hill like to boast about how much more ārepresentativeā their Congressional delegations have become in recent years.…
Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James ElderĀ raised his voiceĀ over the…
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages ofĀ The NationĀ magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about…
Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide. And they can…
On the occasion of his death at 100, praises and denunciations of Henry Kissinger are being sung and spewed out in record…
In this year’s Ellsberg Lecture, Norman Solomon reflects on what Martin Luther King Jr. called ‘the madness of militarism’ and offers an…
The dramatic victory of the far right provocateur Geert Wilders in the recent Dutch elections is yet another extremely worrisome sign that…
As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability,…
Elite Stretching Exercises to Warm Up the Conference of Polluters 28 Summary In the months prior to the 2023 United Nations Framework…
The Green New Deal is happening, and whatever happens is possible. The Green New Deal is not an impossible leftist fantasy, or…
Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez…
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissingerās quip that āpower is the ultimate aphrodisiacā rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their…
I remember how I felt on October 7thĀ and 8thĀ as the news reports came out about the killings and kidnappings by Hamas and…
While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict in Gaza…
Dear Z Community, Most of us on the ZStaff are new to the fundraising world, so for us it’s our firstĀ Giving Tuesday.Ā …
Johannesburg ā By late November, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, there were 15 000 recorded Israeli murders of…
Over the weekend, Politico published the latest in a tidal wave of stories about President Bidenās dwindling prospects for re-election. Under the…
For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for…
For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for…
Highlighting the end of a yearslong trend of declining hunger in the United States due largely to federal policies like the expanded…
Itās one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store…
It is simply inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace all, or many Palestinian refugees from Gaza to Sinai…
Professor Noam Chomsky discuss in May 23, 2023, Israel-Palestine conflict which he describes as āthe main issue of my lifeā with academics…
Controversies over protests and counterprotests about actions in the Mideast now rage in communities across the U.S. and particularly, it seems, on…
Political labels, more than any other time in the late modern history, which traditionally begins with the French Revolution of 1789, not…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) has inspired thousands of progressives to seek elected office, but few have been as successful as Vermont farmer…
Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked our permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating…
The ongoing discussions on the Israeli military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether Israel is planning a long or a…
On Saturday, November 11, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a āterroristā who had prevented 1,000…
āTis the season for holiday shopping, and as American consumers ready their spending dollars, few of us are likely to link our…
During Trumpās tumultuous four-year reign (2017-2021), democratic norms in the U.S. experienced a huge shock. Almost overnight, the U.S. became a different…
This discussion, hosted by Real Utopia and chaired by Urska Breznik, was opened with talks from Peter Bohmer and Steve Shalom. Peter and Steve…
Gaza is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as Israel continues its massive assault across the besieged region. More than 11,000 people have already…
This interview is a behind the scenes follow up to DCās Got a Gas Problem, and Theyāre Not the Only Ones. From…
We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S.…
āClimate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of…
Israel’s genocide of Gaza is intentional, planned and ongoing with no sign of slowing down. The contrary, with no water, food and…
The new letter has been signed by Reps.Ā Alexandria Ocasio-CortezĀ (D-N.Y.),Ā Jamaal BowmanĀ (D-N.Y.),Ā Ayanna PressleyĀ (D-Mass.), Greg Casar (D-Texas),Ā Ilhan OmarĀ (D-Minn.),Ā Cori BushĀ (D-Mo.),Ā Rashida TlaibĀ (D-Mich.), Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), Marjorie Taylor…
Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the…
Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli aerial assault and massacre of Ā Gazans begun on December 27, 2008, lasted for 22 days. The Israeli…
