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If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential…
On International Working Womenās Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President NicolĆ”s Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting…
You get focused to resist and the target moves. It doesnāt just move. It morphs. Should you set aside one focus to…
The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that…
Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iranās authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations. Democracy, however, is…
When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a ānational securityā insider, he had…
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network,…
ICE is terrorizing this country and threatening its long term survival. Yet still, many Americans don’t understand the magnitude of this existential…
Cuban exiles on a U.S.-registered speedboat attempted to enter Cuba undetected, but were confronted by border patrol in Cuban waters on Wednesday.…
When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back the curtain to reveal the shifting tectonic plates of…
What sets Mamdani apart from other progressive mayors who promised to be tough on police is a democratic socialist vision of a…
Jeffrey Epstein was a horrifying but oddly ātalentedā specimen of humanity. He had some combination of āqualitiesā that facilitated his assembling an…
Organizers across the USA convened on February 16, 2026 to discuss the potential of social strikes in combatting Trump’s authoritarian juggernaut. Join…
Rebellions against injustice and poverty go back centuries, millenia, throughout the world. People āon the bottomā of human societies, sooner or later,…
A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the…
Jesse Jacksonās two presidential campaigns (1984 and 1988) represented the pinnacle of the Black-led electoral upsurge which began in the late 1970s.…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
As leaders, generals and diplomats gather in Munich this weekend to debate Europeās security and the future of the transatlantic alliance, the…
Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York Cityās Labor Unions By: Jane Latour University of Illinois Press, 2026 My first contact…
Look around. Day to day, steadily more Americans understand that we have to get Beyond Donald. It isnāt a done deal though…
“The lessons of the International Socialists can help point us in the right direction by sharing what has worked and what has…
A quarter of the way through this century, there is no doubt that the USA and the world are in deep trouble.…
We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
The trajectory of the Trump administrationās Iran policy has undergone a profound recalibration since the beginning of 2026, transitioning from expectations of…
While many nations occasionally resort to a “state of exception” to deal with temporary crises, Israel exists in a permanent state of…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Marta JimĆ©nez, a hairdresser in Cubaās eastern city of HolguĆn, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has made headlines this winter by vowing to defeat a proposal for a one-time 5 percent tax on…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
āThese verdicts are a huge blow to government ministers who have tried to portray Palestine Action as a violent group to justify…
Two Human Rights Watch employeesāthe groupās entire Israel-Palestine teamāresigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israelās denial of Palestinian refugeesā right…
The underlying cause of the ongoing and horrific US intervention in Venezuela is capitalism and resource imperialism. This drives the US to…
US witnessed many ICE-related deaths in 2026. This is a Power 98.7 podcast. Now weāre talking. Subscribe to Power 98.7 podcasts in…
The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rulesāor designing new onesāto fit US strategic interests. This…
The United States is on a very dark path under President Donald Trump, argues political scientist, political economist, author, and journalist C. J. Polychroniou in…
When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administrationās announcement of…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Jeeez, Don, I hear your support is tanking. Bummer. Are you looking for helpful hints? I think I have some. You like…
January 29, 2026, marks the second year since the Israeli military, using U.S. provisioned weapons, murdered Hind Rajab. Had she lived, this…
Trumpās Board of Peace is an intricate play to maintain hegemony in the face of Chinaās rise, sparking talk of “a new…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trumpās leading opponent and the Democratic Partyās 2028 presidential nominee.…
āUltimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War…
Ever since the 1990s, when to the longstanding cooptation of the Western working class by social democracy was added the collapse of…
A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza…
