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The underlying theme of this essay is that new ideas have intellectual value largely in proportion to their impact on further new…
In DecemberĀ 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the United Mine Workers of…
During our visits to Kabul, Afghanistan from 2009 to 2019, young friends who welcomed me and other international guests to their urban…
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the…
These days, conventional media wisdom says that President Biden will have a smooth path to renomination if he wants it. Donāt be…
Strike activity in the United States appears to have reached an all-time high as the unionized staff of the New York Times…
With just one weekĀ left at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference for countries to reach a deal to protect Earth’s ecosystems, environmental campaigners…
An economy is a system of production and consumption activities connected via allocation mechanisms. Simply, it is how people produce items and…
The arrest of Peru’s leftist President Pedro Castillo represents the latest and most serious twist in the country’s on-going systemic political crisis,…
“Racism, xenophobia, and discrimination are fundamental determinants of health globally.” That’s the conclusion of a series of research papers published Friday in the eminent British…
Peace advocates on ThursdayĀ slammed the House of Representatives’ passage of a mammoth $858 billion military spending bill as an early holiday gift…
Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc around the world,…
I remember an interview I once did, back about five years, for a British outlet and its first, opening question, went like…
The problem with most Western mediaās political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that…
We were mistaken to think that Palestine represents the central issue for all Arabs. Such language suggests that Palestine is an external…
John Pilger is one of the worldās most important investigative journalists and film makers. He has won an American TV Academy Award,…
The United States Senate acted in a show of rare unity recently in voting 80 to 15 to pass a bill forcing rail workers…
One of the great strengths of capitalism, weāre told, is the individual and corporate freedoms it gives. Compared to other systems, weāre…
Joe Biden has directed the Democratic National Committee to reduce the danger that progressives might effectively challenge him in the 2024 presidential…
A coalition of patientĀ advocacy groups on Monday urged members of Congress to include bipartisan legislation in the year-end budget package that proponents…
Barbara Ehrenreich died a few months ago. She was brilliantly clear, wise, and funny. She was one of the very few people…
In 1965, Ho Chi MinhĀ describedĀ U.S. President Lyndon Johnsonās half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese ā and simultaneous threat of endless bombing…
Peace and economic justice advocates responded to the imminent unveiling Friday of the United States Air Force’s new $750 million-per-plane nuclear bomber by…
Craig Murray is a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who blew the whistle and exposed the torture program of the Uzbek government…
Why NO BOSSES? Is this a utopian vision or a concrete and realizable roadmap? I think it a vision composed of five…
Speaking on the U.S. Senate floor Thursday before votes on a trio of bills affecting the nation’s freight rail employees, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he…
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments…
Charles Dickens wrote, āConsider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.ā It was an advisory. An attitude. Your neighbor might write, āNothing…
As the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nine months and a cold winter is setting in, people all over the…
Part two of a two part interview between Michael Albert and ZNetwork.org. Part one of this interview is here. Noam Chomsky is…
Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of…
Why did you and Lydia Sargent embark on South End Press and then later Z Magazine? Why did the magazine rise; why…
World-renowned philosopher Noam Chomsky commented on Turkey’s use of chemical weapons against Kurdistan. Chomsky said that the Turkish state would not accept…
Images of passing the torch can be stirring. President John Kennedy reached heights of inaugural oratory when he declared that āthe torch has been…
https://tedglick.com/2022/11/29/aoc-for-president/ Iām not close to her or any of her inner team, so this could be no more than a voice crying…
The recentĀ decisionĀ by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu…
Elon Musk had good reasons to feel unfulfilled enough to buy Twitter for $44 billion. He had pioneered online payments, upended the…
The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu…
Protests have been raging in Iran since mid-September in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died…
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War…
In a move thatĀ critics compared to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election, far-right Brazilian President Jair…
Who the hell is Hope? Hope is, hopefully, you. But, if you are over 50, or perhaps over 40, maybe even over…
It is critical to support Ukraineās just war of self-defense against Russian aggression. Russiaās invasion was morally horrendous and blatantly illegal, resulting…
Declaring her intent toĀ “right the wrongs of a flawed, inequitable, and outdated criminal justice system,” outgoing Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on…
Vision can mean different things in different contexts but for the purposes of this essay the most appropriate definition of Vision is…
Capitalism has been around for such a long time that it is hard for people even to imagine a world without it.…
Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the cityās well-organized streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the worldās leading…
Final commentary for the first part of the debateĀ āEcological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialismā The following commentary was written by Marxist economist,…
Nearly 50,000 academic workers at the University of California launched a historic strike on November 14 after contract negotiations with their employer…
Russiaās war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is…
