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The Berlin-based Lawyers’ Collective on Friday sued the German government in an effort to stop weapons transfers to Israel, whose government and…
Mexico on Friday night announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and kidnapped…
The three most critical heat-trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere again reached record levels last year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday,…
A doctor at an Israeli field hospital inside a notorious detention center where hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are temporarily held is sounding the alarm…
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that…
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs…
Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of…
In my first couple of years of progressive activism in the late 60’s, many of those I worked with who were also…
Yanis Varoufakis’s new film series explains how elites used the financial crisis to terrorize Europe’s populations into submission. “Debt is to capitalism…
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share…
“What we saw on October 7 in Israel, and what we are seeing in Gaza now, represents the blatant violation of international…
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global.…
Books about union presidents are usually penned by professional writers — either academic historians, labor journalists, or paid flacks. Past accounts of…
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone…
As India’s right-wing government cracks down on opposition ahead of next month’s general elections, Amnesty International on Friday urged authorities to “stop weaponizing the…
When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive…
If we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing…
Throughout 2023 and into 2024, the North of Ireland [1] has witnessed the largest and most sustained public sector strikes in all…
Editor’s Note: Recent studies of lawmakers in the United States have found that less than 2% of those serving on Capitol Hill…
In a work entitled “Irish Famine 4,” Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time…
In addition to killing, maiming, and forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has wrought tremendous psychological damage…
“Inside every phone is the blood of a Congolese person.” These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic…
President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons…
‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who…
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and author who served as Greek Finance Minister in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash.…
Social movements often find themselves locked into isolated silos, divided by internecine conflict, or even brutalizing each other in “circular firing squads.”…
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomon’s important new book, War Made Invisible: How America…
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was…
One of the occupational hazards of being a labor activist is over-exposure to “corporate bullshit”—on the job, in the community, and in…
In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war…
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began,…
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that…
“Legendary organizer Bayard Rustin, a consummate practical radical, criticized two other dominant ways of approaching social change: ‘My quarrel with the ‘no-win’…
Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to…
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about “privilege” and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile. Does…
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not only older than Israel, it is also as old as civilisation itself. Rafah has existed…
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from…
Did you see Trump say police incinerate homeless people? Did you see, Biden forgot his own name? Might AI deceptions so flood…
The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself. What is the use of a Palestinian state, if…
Interview with Michael Albert, author, co-founder of South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, conducted by Scott Harris
When the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, it was meant as a counterpoint to the…
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured…
The International Court of Justice has found that Israel’s actions in Gaza may constitute genocide in violation of international law. A US…
Many decades ago in Chicago, I operated the telephone switchboard at a small hospital called Forkosh Memorial. The console of coils and…
“If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long,” famed linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky wrote in…
More than 50 countries are set to participate in next week’s hearings at the International Court of Justice focusing on Israel’s illegal…
The controversial concept of techno-feudalism suggests we have transitioned from capitalism to something even worse — a new era that exhibits disturbing feudal characteristics.…
In the first phase of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza, it was clear that the Palestinian Authority was caught off guard.…
“We are coming together to stop one of the largest fossil fuel buildouts in the world,” said a spokesperson for the #StopLNG…
On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to…