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As governments converge on Washington for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Spring Meeting (April 10-16), they are confronted with the daunting…
The phrase ‘fake news’ continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust…
American unions increasingly recognize the threat of climate change to workers and their communities. Yet some unions continue to promote programs like…
Sanders joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Katie Porter, and others in questioning Cal-Maine Foods’ claim that an avian flu outbreak is to…
(Image: Jared Rodriguez, Truthout) The report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how capitalism undergirds the climate crisis. The…
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. – Matthew 5:9 Ā In a brilliant Op-Ed published…
By his own admission, Israelās new Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is a āfascist homophobeā. This declaration, which he made on January 16,…
“For those asking about my statement on the indictment of Donald Trumpāwho never said sorry for calling for my executionāhere it is,”…
“Leaders in Congress who join this letter are following the demands of a rapidly growing number of Americansāincluding American Jewsāwho want to…
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsā Doomsday ClockĀ has recently been setĀ to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination.…
Imagine we were to assemble in one massive stadium everyone who favors changing societies to attain political, economic, and social justice for…
The final exchange, caught on camera between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian host and counterpart, Vladimir Putin, sums up…
The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of…
In a move that critics say will push people to attempt more dangerous border crossings, the United States and Canada on Friday…
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…
Paul Jay interviews Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg as they continue their discussion about how to avoid nuclear war. Part I available…
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in…
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,…
The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that Chinaās top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran…
Fears of an escalation between nuclear superpowers Russia and the United States mounted Tuesday after a U.S. Air Force Reaper drone went…
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…
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…
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.,…
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,…
