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

Interview on the Whistleblowing Dissent Accountability Festival

A statement signed by 124 groups says the current conflagration is part of a “broader context of Israel’s ongoing policy to forcibly remove Palestinians from their homes through eviction, home demolition, and displacement.”

To understand the roots of the current escalation, one must examine the U.S.-backed, foundational Israeli government policy of using strategies of “terror and expulsion” in an effort to expand its territory by killing and displacing Palestinians

“Untitled (drone)” is meant to animate questions “about the use of drones, surveillance, and targeted killings in places far and near”

There are two separate Sheikh Jarrah stories – one read and watched in the news and another that receives little media coverage or due analysis

Unless vaccines go to the Global South, the virus is going to mutate. It’s already happening, you get more lethal strains

Source: Truthout There has been “nothing comparable in American history” to the huge outpouring of protest unleashed by the murder of George…

A comprehensive labor bill would give workers a level playing field to organize for their rights—if Senate Democrats can muster enough votes

The U.S. will “withdraw,” but will also leave behind its assets to checkmate China and Russia. These geopolitical considerations eclipse any concern for the Afghan people

In the world’s largest democracies, far-right movements that embrace violence, reject democracy, and target the vulnerable are on the rise

Interview on the Biden administration signing on to an effort at the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive intellectual property rules on vaccine technology

On Abbas’ Dangerous Decision to ‘Postpone’ Elections