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Successive economic shocks over the past three yearsāincluding the Covid-19 pandemic, wars and other violence, and extreme weather disasters driven by human-caused…
The deadly Israeli invasion of Jenin on July 3 was not a surprise. Also, unsurprising is the fact that the killing of…
At his speech during the NATO Summit in Lithuania, President Biden called the U.S. and Europe āanchors for global securityā when in…
āIn a dark time,ā poet Theodore RoethkeĀ wrote, āthe eye begins to see.ā Stanley KunitzĀ observed: āIn a murderous time / the heart breaks…
The Biden Administrationās recent decisions to send deadly cluster bombs to Ukraine and to appoint despicable imperialist Elliott Abrams to a State…
In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the āimperialist bias’ of the International Criminal Court (ICC).…
Roughly ten weeks until U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. Whatās coming to NYU, Wisconsin, SF State, MIT, Howard,…
Work from home arrangements that proliferated during the Covid pandemic and became very popular among white-collar workers are now the subject of…
President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions…
The government watchdog Accountable.US reported Friday that a majority of incumbent members in the U.S. House of Representatives filed extensions this year…
As the West Bank reels from the latest attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers, more than 70 U.S.-based advocacy groups on Wednesday…
California is home to Hollywood and Disneyland, sun and sand, andā¦ nearly one-third of all unhoused people in the entire nation. Compare…
Desecrating, then burning the Holy Quran in Sweden has, once again, raised a political storm of condemnation, but also of justification, if…
Israel is using major firepower against the Palestinian people living in the West Bank and the U.S. says that they support this.…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not just against the establishment of a Palestinian state, he wants to eliminate the very aspirations…
Midway through his cumulatively stunning new book āSoldiers Donāt Go Mad,ā author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from The Times of London…
The United States Supreme Courtās recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college and university admissions was in response to…
Numbers can be dehumanizing. However, when placed in their proper context, they help to illuminate wider issues and answer urgent questions, such…
[Kali Akuno, co-founder of Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi, was given the 2023 Gandhi Peace Award by Promoting Enduring Peace. The award has been given…
Proponents of student debt cancellation reacted angrily Friday to what one leading activist group called President Joe Biden’s “horseshit” response to the U.S. Supreme…
Greeceās conservative party New Democracy won another landslide victory in the countryās second election in just five weeks, trouncing Syriza, the so-called…
The need for unified mass demonstrations in the streets calling for urgent action on the climate emergency, with a central demand that…
āDeep canvassingā offers a model for how anti-racist Americans can practice what they preach and work to promote racial justice narratives. The…
On June 19, a large Israeli military forceĀ raidedĀ the northern Palestinian town and refugee camp of Jenin from multiple directions. Not only did…
An advocate of participatory economics, Mark Evans, has proposed that to attain a self-managing, equitable, classless, participatory economy we donāt need to…
The Fourth of July — the ultimate patriotic holiday — is approaching again. Politicians orate, American Flags proliferate and, even more than…
When I was doing interviews for my dissertation in Santiago, Chile, in 1972, I was told that the word āJakartaā had been…
The potential new leader of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ā the world bodyās Nobel Prize-winning scientific network…
A recent Justice DepartmentĀ reportĀ concluded that āsystemicā racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department āmade what happened to George Floyd possible.ā During the…
“Berlusconi is there because others have failed.” These words by Italian columnist Massimo Franco were made to the Washington Post in 2018,…
Today we speak to Norman Solomon about his new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. Norman…
A hundred and eleven years ago, a ship considered to be āunsinkableā fell to the bottom of the ocean after hitting an iceberg. More…
Here comes election time, yet again. Consider the potential of certain progressives winning high office in the U.S. Beyond their being better…
Until recently, the global economy accepted the U.S. dollar as the worldās reserve currency and the currency of international transactions. The central…
When a labor organization doesnāt have direct election of its national officers, hasnāt had a contested convention vote for union president since…
IntroductionĀ For those of us who are interested in organising for an economy that values self-management, cooperation and solidarity; a fair criteria…
Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan…
Fadi, a Syrian teenager, with curly hair and an acne-covered face, has miraculously survived one of the greatest migrant boat disasters in…
We must be interested not only in the grand scale, systemic, and institutional changes that we so desperately need, but also in…
As Ukraine prepared to launch its much heralded but long delayed counteroffensive, the media published a photograph of a Ukrainian soldier with…
Bill Fletcher, Jr.Ā is a world-renowned racial justice, labor, and international activist, scholar, and author; he has served in leadership positions with many…
āTime itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill…
When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday, the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion and resolve. Ellsbergās renown…
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, a book recently published by Brill, offers a comprehensive account of economic sanctions…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and how itās going to change the world is a popular topic of conversation these days. There is concern…
Amnesty International Philippines named FPIF commentator Walden Bello āMost Distinguished Defender of Human Rightsā for 2023.Ā This is his acceptance speech. I…
On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top of their…
Norman Solomonās new book, War Made Invisible (published by The New Press) shows how the U.S. hides the human toll of its…
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that would make college tuition-free for working families and pay for it with a…
The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive…
