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Greece’s conservative party New Democracy won another landslide victory in the country’s 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…
“Deep canvassing” 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 force raided 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 don’t 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 “Jakarta” had been…
The potential new leader of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world body’s Nobel Prize-winning scientific network…
A recent Justice Department report concluded that “systemic” racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department “made what happened to George Floyd possible.” 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 “unsinkable” 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 world’s reserve currency and the currency of international transactions. The central…
When a labor organization doesn’t have direct election of its national officers, hasn’t had a contested convention vote for union president since…
Introduction 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. is a world-renowned racial justice, labor, and international activist, scholar, and author; he has served in leadership positions with many…
“Time 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. Ellsberg’s 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 it’s going to change the world is a popular topic of conversation these days. There is concern…
Amnesty International Philippines named FPIF commentator Walden Bello “Most Distinguished Defender of Human Rights” for 2023. 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…
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…
Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible (published by The New Press) shows how the U.S. hides the human toll of its…
The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive…
During the weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the…
Corporate media outlets have often furthered racist narratives, and do so even today. In contrast, independent media outlets have centered racial justice,…
Normal describes beliefs or behaviors considered natural, proper, and permanent. Normal implies innate and unchallengeable. We don’t alter what’s normal. We don’t…
Europe keeps reminding us that geopolitical interests trump ideology. European politics is the prime example of how states and political parties are…
Editor’s note: The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. As a platform for…
Climate change is “making our planet uninhabitable,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in late March. Indeed, the threats of the impending climate…
Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky to discuss the current state of the world, the threat…
Remarks by China’s United Nations Ambassador, Geng Shuang, on the situation in Occupied Palestine on May 24 were impeccable, in terms of…
After signing a military decree on May 18, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern Occupied…
Noam Chomsky discusses the history of nuclear agreements and arms control treaties, highlighting their gradual dismantling by successive U.S. administrations. He criticizes…
The physical and psychological distances of high-tech killing have encouraged belief in frequent claims that American warfare has become humane. Such pretenses…
Noam Chomsky discusses the heroic contributions Daniel Ellsberg made by releasing the Pentagon Papers and revealing the madness of American nuclear war…
As the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee wrapped up in Paris with an agreement to develop the first draft of…
Just days before the start of June, celebrated around the country and world as “Pride month,” Target corporation decided that proudly allying with the LGBTQIA+ community…
Renowned American linguist, philosopher, political activist Noam Chomsky questions Washington’s motives for supporting Ukraine and explains why diplomacy is the only way…
When Sara Steffens was a young reporter from Oakland, she helped her co-workers at the Contra Costa Times form a new Newspaper Guild bargaining…
For Netanyahu, the frequent deadly raids on Palestinian towns and refugee camps translate into political assets that allow him to keep his…
While the Green New Deal started as a proposed national program, some of the most impressive implementations of its principles and policies…
[The following is an edited transcript of the podcast RevolutionZ’s 230th episode. It is from RevolutionZ’s unscripted Ruminations series, but it is…
When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope…
