‘Our Democracy Faces an Existential Threat’

If you want a choice not to wear a mask, that’s okay, stay home, don’t endanger others

I wrote No Bosses because I believe we need shared vision to sustain hope, orient strategy, and escalate commitment. I recently wondered, what if I were invited to review No Bosses? What would I say?

The G20, an exclusive club of mostly wealthy nations, met just before the COP26 in Glasgow and paid little more than lip service to the world’s leading problems, while preserving their own financial dominance

“The solution,” said Luis Arce at COP26, “is to change the model of civilization and move towards an alternative model to capitalism, the concept of living well together in harmony with Mother Earth.

The truth is that a thousand or a million more statements by western governments will not end the Israeli occupation

The appropriate public response to governments that are ready to squander the lives of millions of people, whether by war or by ecological mass suicide, is rebellion and revolution

Governments and corporations around the world are fully aware of the danger of the climate crisis. They are not lacking information or education; it’s all out there

“There is still time to avoid the worst consequences if we are prepared to change. It will take determined, visionary leadership. And it will take immense courage—but know that when you rise, billions will be right behind you.”

The signs of collapse of the social order are too numerous and familiar to review once again. To a large extent, it can be attributed to the impact of the one-sided and vicious class war of the past 40-plus years

Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime

A look at alternatives to capitalism

The ultimate objective here is to cement the status quo where the fate of Arab nations remains in the grip of brutal, corrupt and self-aggrandizing rulers, with no tolerance for genuine political plurality and democracy

Turning to the U.S., a mere 60 percent of voters regard global warming as an urgent problem for government. It is only the most urgent problem that humans have ever faced

The challenge ahead is to turn every city and every town in virtually every major country in the world into a stronghold of the global climate movement

The Biden Administration is proving to be but a soft facade to the same policies enacted by the Trump Administration

Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing

To realize its potential, the Green New Deal must be more than a collection of federal programs; it must be a society-wide effort, a popular mobilization

No imperatives are more crucial than challenging the fossil fuel industry and the nuclear weapons industry as the terrible threats to the climate and humanity that they are

“Institutions around the world must step up now and commit to joining the divest-invest movement before it is too late—for them, for the economy, and for the world.”

Or Will Rich Corporations Trash the Planet?

U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu’s proposed $60 million federal investment in “cultural infrastructure” would lead to the re-hiring of writers, editors, fact-checkers, publishing assistants, librarians, and historians who lost work and income due to the pandemic

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Warren Leads Bill to ‘Stop Wall Street Looting’

In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with mixed but sometimes promising results

On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents

“Why are some human beings more deserving of rights than other human beings?”

“The United States can restore its position as a global leader in conservation and prevent many of these extinctions, but it must take swift action that matches the extent and scale of the problem.”

There ain’t no power like the power of the people when organized peoples, joining together, don’t stop

Taken together with a sharp increase in union strikes, the mass resignations of individuals indicate a deep worker dissatisfaction across the nation.

When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The US government must release those funds

Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the morality of Ireland’s tax regime and whether the human race can avoid the twin catastrophes of global warming and nuclear war

Noam Chomsky notes, there is plenty of room for despair in America right now. But he insists that, despite it all, we have ample reason for hope

The neoliberal model has been highly successful in achieving its most basic aim, which is to shower ever-greater advantages on the already over-privileged

Grassroots activists committed to ending human rights abuses must uphold solidarity with civil society groups defending human rights in Yemen and Afghanistan

“Torture the data until they confess” (or until you’re busted), economists profess

Richard Falk is universally regarded as one of the top minds when it comes to international law.  Yet his views are not only not welcome in establishment circles, but even among most left-leaning liberals

A substantive and non-neoliberal Universal Basic Income could substantially improve people’s lives

The left/progressive forces within and around the Democratic Party must be strengthened, particularly at the state level

Social movements can create change, but need proper organizational structures to dismantle hegemonic power

The demonstrations by India’s farmers are a ‘model of struggle’ across the world

Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama stressed that world leaders should not be allowed to “sneak in and out of Glasgow without making a single serious commitment.”

New revelations by a whistleblower prove that the world’s largest social media platform understands clearly its negative impact on society, but that profits are a greater lure than preserving democracy

In a highly fragile world facing existential threats, we need the voice of critical intellectuals more than any other time in history

“Make no mistake: If the Build Back Better bill wasn’t a once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in climate action, the fossil fuel industry wouldn’t be pouring out millions of dollars trying to stop it.”

Perhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is that, while capitalism is in perpetual crisis, there seems to be no alternative

Manchin has hypocritically described the domestic spending bill as “fiscal insanity,” but he has voted for a much larger Pentagon budget every year since 2016

Frances Haugen said the company’s leaders know how to make their platforms safer, “but won’t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people”

Through determined action in the streets and relentless pressure on the suites, this fall can be a time of important, badly-needed victories. Let’s do it

To call its massive and escalating budget a “defense” budget is nothing less than internalized corruption of language that undermines our capacities to think clearly and talk straight