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Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers went on strike March 21-23, 2023, for the first time in four years, shutting down the nationās…
Reading Bridget Meehan’s moving conundrum about voting in a society where no candidate who represented your convictions has ever stood for any…
Back in November 2022, I was watching the night time news. The headline story was the G20 leadersā summit taking place in…
The scene of Israeli Ambassador, Sharon Bar-Li, along with other Israeli delegates, being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African…
The programs that are needed to fight climate change will produce millions of new jobs. Local and state climate programs are already…
Responding to worried questions raised by many about the ongoing banking crisis that started in the US with the bankruptcy of the…
As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at how the corporate U.S. media…
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in…
Paul Jay interviews Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg as they continue their discussion about how to avoid nuclear war. Part I available…
The title, The Old Folks Home at the College, is from a song lyric. I bet you can guess, or know, the author.…
Perhaps itās coincidence, or perhaps it has been of my own subconscious making, but there has been a community of people right…
March 20, 2023, marks the 20-year anniversary of the illegal US invasion of Iraq. Two decades later, over a million Iraqis have…
Michigan is expected very soon to reverse its so-called āright-to-workā (RTW) law. The repeal, led by Democrats and passing along strictly partisan lines, is…
At least tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of cities and towns across Greece Thursday to protest the government’s…
In a hypothetical race to claim the mantle of biggest threat to humanity, nuclear war, ecological catastrophe, rising authoritarianism, and new pandemics…
Recovering from a brutal assault that left him with a broken nose and cheekbone, leftist Greek lawmaker Yanis Varoufakis on Tuesday urged…
As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined anti-government protests, questions began to arise regarding how this movement would affect, or possibly merge,…
Fears of an escalation between nuclear superpowers Russia and the United States mounted Tuesday after a U.S. Air Force Reaper drone went…
The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that Chinaās top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran…
March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of…
“The impacts of the global arms trade aren’t just about the volume of weapons delivered,” said one expert, citing “a few examples…
Even in the era of identity politics, one category of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe Glenton calls āveteranhood.ā In the U.S.,…
Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets…
While advocates of peace and a multipolar world order welcomed Friday’s China-brokered agreement reestablishing diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, U.S.…
āMy creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. It has no room for cowardice or even weakness. There is hope for…
As is the case of long wars, the warring parties and their affiliated media in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have painted each other…
Is it Russian imperialism or great-power politics that explains Putinās invasion of Ukraine? And how likely is it that we could see…
I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of…
The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness, and President Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough. We…
The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting…
Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and…
This week, when the New York Times featured anĀ opinion pieceĀ by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas…
Independent journalist and commentator Richard Medhurst interviews Noam Chomsky about his opinion on the current protests by Israelis against Netanyahu and the…
Some time back, I opened the Sunday New York Times. The main headline, front page, top right, was āAt many nursing homes,…
Noam Chomsky Interview with Richard Medhurst: Ukraine, China, BRICS & Middle East
In France, again, the public rebels as we ought to everywhere. Will the French strike widen? Will the French occupy, expand, diversify,…
Daniel Ellsberg, whose leaking of the Pentagon Papers and decades of anti-war activity have inspired generations of whistleblowers and activists, said Wednesday that he…
Thereās something irrational about President Bidenās knee-jerk dismissal of Chinaās 12-point peace proposal titled āChinaās Position on the Political Settlement of the…
Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli…
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, in a recent interview with CNNās Poppy Harlow, proudly showed off his newest invention: a tablespoon of olive…
Noam Chomsky on the Ukraine war and how the world outside the west perceives it and how western narrative is being shaped.…
A coalition of more than 240 advocacy groups on Wednesday launched aĀ “Shareholder Showdown”Ā campaign in support of shareholder resolutions urging climate action and…
“We’re not the subjugated and disenfranchised people that we were,” said one Ponca elder who took part in the 1973 revolt. “Wounded…
To understand the current fierce attacks on the progressive leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, itās helpful to recall the panicked reaction…
Workers in the logistics industry often make headlines when their handling of goods is disrupted by pandemic conditions or labor conflicts. Thanks…
Media and individuals too often field too few questions about the systemic causes of trends and events. More often they ask about…
On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a āwatered-downā version of an earlier…
125 years ago the USAās imperialist/militarist interventions outside the borders of the continental United States began in earnest with the Spanish American…
Though it has been argued that the so-called American dream is long dead, Nikki Haley is proof that the dream is still…
The war in Ukraine is almost a year old, with no end in sight to the fighting, suffering and destruction. In fact,…
