Ecuador’s April 11 election that led to a 5-point victory by conservative banker Guillermo Lasso over progressive candidate Andrés Arauz was not what it appeared to be

How many Black people have to be killed by police before politicians realize that expensive reforms don’t work?

Please Help ZNet Source: Jacobin Just as talks between the US and Iran were taking place last week in Vienna, a cyberattack…

No matter what the White House and the headlines say, U.S. taxpayers won’t stop subsidizing the killing in Afghanistan until there is an end to the bombing and “special operations” that remain shrouded in secrecy

“it’s a breakthrough even to consider the investigation, let alone the indictment and the prosecution of either Israelis or Americans that was put on the agenda of the ICC, which led to a pushback by these governments.”

In a wide-ranging talk, the 92-year-old rebel with many causes discusses the role of activists, intellectuals and Joe Biden in America

“It’s not normal for people to live like this,” says Iman Saleh, now on her twelfth day of a hunger strike demanding an end to war in Yemen.

Transgender people, like immigrants, voters of color, and those seeking abortions, are the latest scapegoats that the GOP is counting on to fuel bigotry among its base

As it stands, the key to the future of Fatah is now held by a Palestinian prisoner, Marwan Barghouti, who has been kept by Israel, largely in solitary confinement, since 2002

If the Biden proposal is the best that can be passed this year, then it should be supported and passed, but with a clear understanding that it is a beginning, not an end

It is naïve and dangerous to rely on the “invisible hand” of the market either for economic transformation or for a solution to the problem of climate change

our society would rather spend money to violently clamp down on protesters who are protecting an unhoused community than fund long-term solutions to the housing crisis

Interview on the Biden administration’s Middle East policies, explores elements of continuity and change in US policy towards the region after the Trump years

‘Military Chiefs Quit Amid Bolsonaro Purge of Top Ministers

A ‘major setback’ was the recurring term in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel’s general elections of March 23

A Structuralist Approach To Predatory Global Capitalism And The Challenge of Reform

U.S. policy might help create a more serious challenge by confrontational and hostile acts that drive Russia and China closer together in reaction

Many progressives are ignoring U.S. aggression around the world despite its involvement in many wars and expanding arsenal of nuclear weapons

So Why Does Biden Seem Intent on Enriching Private Insurance Companies?

Direct action can play a significant role in shaping the Biden era

Maybe cooperation over Afghanistan can even be a first step toward broader U.S. cooperation with China, Russia and Iran that will be essential if we are to solve the serious common challenges confronting us all

A look at Tangled Up in Blue: Policing The American City (Penguin Press), by Rosa Brooks

“There’s more work to do to ensure other proposed fracked gas export terminals… are never built, but today we celebrate this important victory for our people and our environment.”

Last week’s outbreak of rhetorical hostilities between the White House and the Kremlin has heightened the urgent need for a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin

The dire challenges we face have no borders. Global heating, pandemics, disarmament will be dealt with internationally, if at all

Haaland’s identity and politics taken together are a threat to the oil and gas industry, its lobbyists like Zinke and Bernhardt, and its political champions like Daines and Barrasso

“The benefits of a four-day workweek include reduced unemployment, increased productivity, and greater employee well-being.”

American politics remains mired in conservative racist notions of who deserves help

How John Locke’s theory of property — and its racist exclusion of Black and Indigenous people — explains U.S. history from 1776 to January 6

The fate of Biden’s “Build Back Better” proposals–and of hard-hit working people throughout the country–may depend not just on officeholders in Washington but on the action of ordinary people in response to today’s multiple crises.

Poverty in America disproportionately affects women and people of color, and that is precisely what hinders political action to address it—even when solutions abound

The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed–or even infuriated

The independent progressive political forces that supported this legislation after helping to get Biden elected despite very real differences deserve more than a small bit of the credit for this legislative and political victory

While offering the world’s most miserable detention conditions to hundreds of potentially innocent men, Guantánamo also offers career opportunities, high military perks and honors

How companies are holding humanity hostage for profit

A review of Alicia Garza’s 2020 book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart,

Biden cannot restore the world’s respect for American leadership, or the American public’s support for our foreign policy, by piling more lies, secrets and atrocities on top of those he has inherited

“Georgia Republicans didn’t like the results of the 2020 election so they decided they would try to dictate who they will let vote and who they won’t let vote.”

Amid the ongoing horror, it’s important to find ways to atone for war crimes —including reparations

This technology has failed to demonstrate any consistent advantages for crop yields or food quality, but has helped drive an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power in the global seed and agrochemical sectors

Banning weaponized and surveillance drones would enhance our capacity to work toward meeting human needs

Though we must insist that the return to rule by the military in Burma is unacceptable, we must equally demand that Burma embraces true democracy for all of its citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion

A welcome change in national leadership in the U.S. means little for the scourge of racism infecting the nation—unless words are matched by action.

“Our Constitution is clear that it is Congress, not the president, who has the authority to declare war,” the senator asserted.

After failing to prioritize diplomacy and rejoin the Iran nuclear agreement, Biden has now, barely a month into his presidency, reverted to the use of military force

Millions of Palestinians continue to live in exile, generation after generation, painstakingly negotiating their individual and collective identities, neither able to return, nor feeling truly whole

Trump didn’t win the working class, the Democrats lost it; it’s urgent that progressive organizing focus on the working class and unions – human civilization depends on it

Tanden has a record as one of the most anti-progressive operators among Democratic Party movers and shakers

Only 17% of Europeans want closer economic ties with the United States, while even fewer, 10% of French and Germans, think their countries need America’s help with their national defense.
 

rare contested race for president of the IAFF has given its members a clear choice between a union traditionalist from Boston and a progressive activist who backed massive labor protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a decade ago