The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public’s right to know what is being done in its name

“Sha’Carri’s suspension serves as a cautionary tale and a reminder of how insidious the drug war is in our everyday lives, far beyond the carceral state.”

We have the technical know-how as well as the available economic resources to make the transition to a clean energy future

The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation

“They’re afraid of a politician that can’t be bought.”

Source: Countercurrents One week after Brittney Spears sent shockwaves across the world by relaying the conditions she has lived under for the…

Many Palestinians believe that the May 10-21 military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous popular revolt across Palestine, was a game-changer

We got through all of this because we had to, because there was a shared and openly expressed feeling about how urgent the issues are that we were addressing

The progressive forces fighting for a democratic future have a truly herculean task ahead of them

Interview on how the media landscape has changed in the age of social media, inspiring activist movements, the Republican’s sharp movement toward an insane style of politics, and the dangers of the new Cold War with China

“The U.N. vote… on Cuba was a chance for President Biden to show global leadership,” said CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin. “He failed miserably.”

Like other power brokers and the big-money PACs now trying to sway the special election for a vacant congressional seat in northeast Ohio, Clinton is doing what she can to keep the deeply progressive Turner out of Congress

Biden’s doctrine on Israel and Palestine is simple. He does not want to make an actual commitment to relaunching the peace process

More than 2.6 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, but many countries have yet to see a single shot amid mounting infections

“The Biden administration must remain resolute and seek a break from the disastrous conditions that helped contribute to this result.”

“Abolish It!” is a growing activist trend for what to claim, demand, say, and do. What arguments support abolition as a way to present our desires? What problems accompany abolition as a go-to approach?

Marking Juneteenth as a federal holiday is only the first step toward financial redress, not the last

How Benjamin Netanyahu Won America and Lost Israel

It’s hard to garner votes with the slogan “I want to rob you. Vote for me.” That leaves only a few options. One is to prevent the “wrong people” from voting.

If Kucinich can emerge from the September primary and November runoff as Cleveland’s next mayor, City Hall could become a beacon for progressive change in urban America.

The key to a peaceful, sustainable and prosperous future for all the world’s people, including Americans, lies in working together, learning from each other and adopting policies that serve the public good

“This moment provides opportunities to raise wage demands, but it must be a moment where workers organize in order to sustain and pursue demands for improvements in their living and working conditions.”

President Biden has excelled at gratuitous and dangerous rhetoric about Russia

Interview on why working-class politics can secure universal health care, climate justice, and an end to nuclear weapons — if we’re willing to fight for them

Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep

Poor People’s Campaign to March Against Manchin Obstructionism in West Virginia

Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation

“Emissions are nothing more than a math equation in these plans; they can be added one place and subtracted from another place.”

On the Politics of Victory and Defeat:

Castillo, the son of illiterate peasants, overcame vicious media attacks and is on the verge of defeating Keiko Fujimori, the scion of a Peruvian political dynasty

Republicans have consistently adopted a reactionary orientation on race, ethnicity, and gender issues, and are fervid opponents of majority rule

In 2020 electoral action was the priority. Right now street action, holding those elected accountable, bringing political pressure to bear, has to be the priority

Why does the US advocate a free market while doing its utmost to stifle it? The current US-China economic war is a perfect example of this perplexing question

The bill undermines Kerry’s negotiated agreement with China, sabotaging an opportunity for the U.S. and China to partner on curbing emissions and sharing strategies for greening the Earth

This is a call to anyone listening that we must do better than those who have come before us and we must usher in a new wave of commitment, vision, and strategy than has ever been seen before

What policies can integrate the needs of working people, the most oppressed, and our threatened climate and environment?

Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder and MeRA25 leader, hosts Michael Albert, founder of ZNet, ZCommunications and ZRevolution

The strategic objective of the Republican Party is not simply to engage in obstructionism, but to continue dividing the nation and radicalizing the American public against the democratic system

The Walk begins in Scranton on June 20, Father’s Day, and will end in Wilmington, De. on June 28

Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June

The Palestinians won because, once more, they emerged from the rubble of Israeli bombs as a whole, a nation determined to win its freedom at any cost

A look at Dissenting POWs, a new book by Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke

We challenge President Biden and Secretary Blinken to prove us wrong by actually joining the rules-based order of the UN Charter and international law

What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths?

While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits

Corporations, not wildlife, stand to benefit from the emptied lands

Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage

“Genocidal” is the word that comes to mind for what Israel is now doing

Speak up. Speak out. The Palestinians have risen. It is time to rally behind them

U.S. media and politicians betray their own lack of neutrality by blaming Palestinians for nearly all the violence and framing flagrantly disproportionate, indiscriminate and therefore illegal Israeli attacks as a justifiable response to Palestinian actions