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

“The United States cannot turn its back on the atrocities, including war crimes, enabled by U.S. policies, particularly its decades long policy of shielding Israel from accountability.”

As long as the barbarism of neoliberal capitalism defines the present, the future can only belong to the left

This is the moment to demand a substantial cut in military spending that defunds new nuclear weapons

The struggle against neoliberal capitalism requires a well-organized working-class movement that hasn’t succumbed to the form of historical amnesia imposed by the powers that be

Chomsky on Mikhail Bakunin and Power systems

Interview on on the ways democracy has changed and been constrained in the United States

It is important to acknowledge the role played by individuals in the undeniable shift within the American political discourse on Palestine and Israel

Interview on a variety of topics

During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media

President Biden left out the most important details about the war and how it will in fact continue

For a president who promised a new era of American diplomacy, this has been a dreadful start

If we do end up building a viable clean energy system through a global Green New Deal, we will therefore also succeed in advancing democracy and egalitarianism

“Fossil fuels are the greatest contributor to climate change. Allowing the continued expansion of this industry is unconscionable.”

President Biden announced a removal of all U.S. troops by September 11, but he failed to include some important details

New Voice candidates promised to work with state and local AFL-CIO councils to make labor’s political action and workplace solidarity more effective

C. J. Polychroniou looks at the evidence and wonders if our leaders’ ever consider that capitalism is at the core of what’s causing life on Earth to vanish

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