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In High School, in the early 1960s, despite having watched all too many movies about World War Two, Nazis, and “Good Germans,”…
The outcome of global climate summits has barely changed since the United Nations held the first Conference of the Parties (COP) in…
Is the trade union movement a force to combat right-wing authoritarianism? That’s the question I posed in mid-October to University of Florida history professor Paul…
The Man Who Changed Colors is a murder mystery revolving around race, justice, revenge, Cape Verdean Americans and evolving relationships. It is set in 1978-79 in…
The nation’s biggest investment in the past decade to fix police abuses has failed. The New York Times, in collaboration with ProPublica…
Sasimwani, Kenya | You’ve heard of blood diamonds – extracted by violence, slavery, and displacement then processed through accounting magic and slick…
The most publicized sentence from the final COP28 document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by oil man Sultan Al-Jaber…
We have been writing annual Christmas messages of peace, for human rights,and relating sometimes what happened in the passing year for decades.…
Three months ago about 600,000 people took action in New York City and in 700 other localities around the world calling for…
Top American officials in the “national security” establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth…
What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long,…
On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UN’s history. Article…
One of the rare times that Noam Chomsky’s 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. Let’s draw strength…
’Tis the season for holiday sales. But on the other side of the planet, there’s 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 “should be the most important meeting in the history…
Donald Trump’s electoral defeat in 2020 and Jair Bolsonaro’s loss to Lula in Brazil in 2022, along with Rodrigo Duterte’s leaving the…
“A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants.” —Bertrand…
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 “representative” their Congressional delegations have become in recent years.…
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about…
Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the…
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…
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their…
Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez…
I remember how I felt on October 7th and 8th 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 first Giving Tuesday. …
Johannesburg – 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 Biden’s 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…
It’s 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 “the main issue of my life” 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 “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000…
