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This Public Health Conversation Starter features Noam Chomsky, āthe father of modern linguisticsā in discussion with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Chomsky…
For a whole year, Israel has struggled in its attempts to articulate a clear and decisive position regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. The…
A toxicology report revealsĀ a “great quantity” of the neurotoxin clostridium botulinum was found in the body of the leftistāwho claimed he was…
We can all list many perspectives that propose different post capitalist economic aims. Must we see each perspective as a contender against…
Though it was clear that Burkina Faso was eventually going to follow in the footsteps of Mali and the Central African Republic…
Advocates of peace, truth, and basic human decency on Sunday excoriated the National Football League’s “whitewashing” of former Arizona Cardinal and Army…
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Ahead of his first White House meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, Brazilian President Luiz InĆ”cio Lula da Silva met Friday with…
Introduction This paper begins with a brief presentation of participatory economics. The presentation focuses on the class aspect of the model. It…
My favorite chair is surrounded by piles of art supplies. There is yarn stacked high in baskets that I once aspired to…
After working more than 1,000 days without a contract, more than 200 unionized NBC NewsDigital workers on Thursday launched a 24-hour walkout…
Power companies have hiked the price of electricity, making a tough winter even worse. And this time, itās not just the poorest…
After sustained pressure from organized workers and their allies, freight rail giant CSX Transportation agreed Tuesday to provide 5,000 employees in two…
Degrowth versus ecomodernism. Ecomodernism versus degrowth. Whatās it all about? From where the passion? Why any anger? How about reaching for unity?…
The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Centuryby Erica Smiley and Sarita GuptaCornell University Press, 2022, 276…
Though Israelās past wars on Gaza have often been justified by Tel Aviv as a response to Palestinian rockets or, generally, as…
Republicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract from the fact that they have no economic agenda…
Emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, lethal autonomous weapons systems, and hypersonic missiles pose a potentially existential threat that underscores the imperative of…
Consider the potential of certain progressives winning high office in the U.S. Beyond their being much better than who they defeat, would…
Review ofĀ Un-American: A Soldierās Reckoning of Our Longest War, byĀ Erik Edstromās (Bloomsbury, 2020);Ā Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A MarineāsĀ Unbecoming, byĀ Lyle JeremyĀ RubinĀ (Bold…
The right-wing riot and insurrection led on January 8 by followers of Brazilās incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro had strong echoes of the…
The latest Arab Opinion Index 2022 is yet more proof that Arab societies are diverse in every possible way, from their assessment…
When the Democratic National Committee convenes its winter meeting on Thursday in Philadelphia, a key agenda item will be rubber-stamping Joe Bidenās…
On Friday, January 27, 2023, DiEM25 co-founder and MERA25 leader Yanis Varoufakis gave a speech at the Havana Congress on the New…
Two prominent activists, Medea Benjamin and Bill Fletcher Jr. were recently hosted by the Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War for a…
To struggle against the forces of fascism, war, oppression, and ecocide is to confront and resist fearsome foes. The path is not…
Hereās one of many indicators about how broken the United States health care system is: Guns seem to be easier and cheaper…
January 27th marks the 50th Anniversary of the peace treaty that ended the American war against Vietnam, and Bob had a long…
Talking Foreign Affairs with Adil Cader presents a rare and wide-ranging interview, where Professor Chomsky discusses being in “the most dangerous point…
āFor how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?ā These…
On January 19, during one of its raids in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen…
An important articleĀ just published in Inside Climate NewsĀ revealed good news from a new federal government report, Short Term Energy Outlook. That study…
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this āa time of unprecedented danger.ā It…
(Image: protest in Spain on February 24, 2022 (Shutterstock)) The U.S. war against Vietnam provides a rather close analogy to the Russian…
On the evening of January 21, a couple dozen people came out in the rain and grouped together in a circle outside…
The Global Firepower ranking was published on January 6. The annual report classifies the worldās strongest militaries based on over 60 factors,…
Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Bidenās shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable…
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has announced it will lay off about 6 percent of its global workforce. Google CEO Sundar…
Over 90% of the rainforest carbon offsets sold by the nonprofit organization that sets the world’s leading sustainability standard “are largely worthless…
As part of a special show with Jeremy Corbyn marking the second anniversary of the Peace & Justice Project, Noam Chomsky sent…
Hundreds of University of Illinois Chicago faculty members went on strike Tuesday after nine months of deadlocked contract negotiations over pay and…
Have you ever heard a fellow progressive, leftist, radical, or revolutionary say, āI remain on the left despite the left, not because…
In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behavior at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines…
To mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, leaders of a modern iteration of the slain civil rights champion’s final…
For many months, conventional media wisdom has told us that Joe Biden would be the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump in…
When the Russians began their invasion of Ukraine, it seemed to me to be a no-brainer regarding how progressive forces should respond. After…
In an influential 1963 pamphlet titled āThe Two Souls of Socialism,ā the Marxist revolutionary, Hal Draper, said āsocialismā encompassed three tendencies. First,…
The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders…
The current notion of a āmoderate Republicanā is an oxymoron that helps to move the country rightward. Last week, every one of…
Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will offer a legal opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.…
