Expecting the US to play a constructive role in achieving a just peace in Palestine does not only reflect indefensible naivety but willful ignorance as well

Haines’s record on torture and drones alone should be enough for  Senators to reject her nomination.

The brighter spots among Joe Biden’s nominations reflect the political wattage that progressives have generated in recent years on a wide array of intertwined matters, from climate to healthcare to economic justice to structural racism

Sanders Slams Trump’s Intransigence as Millions Lose Unemployment Lifeline

Why Netanyahu is a Symptom, Not Cause of Israel’s Political Crisis

What can I say? Holiday season. I wish you as bright a holiday as our times permit. I wish you much joy,…

‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation

The American people must send a clear message to President-elect Biden that we will not accept torture enablers in his administration

Only progressive populism offers an appealing alternative to the toxic pseudo-populism of the Trumpist Republican Party

India’s Hindu fundamentalist government has pushed through a deregulatory agenda for years. Now it has taken on farmers who have nothing left to lose and who are refusing to back down.

Poor, dark-skinned people should not be made to die when their lives can be saved by a simple vaccine, which is available in abundance

A Landmark Lecture by Noam Chomsky

How can a progressive movement grow strong enough to force the Biden administration to deliver on a more democratic-socialist and non-militarist agenda?

How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine

We can no longer afford to sacrifice our future on the altar of the Global War on Terror, a New Cold War, Pax Americana or other imperialist fantasies

Britain has no enemies other than those within who betray the trust of its ordinary people, its nurses and doctors, its carers, elderly, homeless and youth, as successive neo-liberal governments have done, Conservative and Labour

There must be a willingness to take on the billionaire class and the deep-seated economic inequality that disproportionately affects people of color but affects people of all colors and cultures

“The progressive movement deserves a number of seats — important seats — in the Biden administration,” Sanders said last week. “Have I seen that at this point? I have not.”

The vaccine refusers among us will likely continue to benefit from living in a largely vaccinated community, mooching off of the herd immunity they refuse to contribute to

The people threatened by climate change are the one force which, if mobilized, can counter the power of the fossil fuel industry in those arenas

Abbas Prioritizes US Ties over Palestinian National Unity

‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation

Ask yourself what can be done effectively, not what makes you feel righteous

If President Biden choosing between Michèle Flournoy, General Austin and Jeh Johnson for Secretary of Defense, we urge him to choose the one out of the three who has upheld this basic principle that most Americans believe in, that war is “extraordinary and unnatural,” and peace is “the norm toward which the human race continually strives.”

Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration. The left must seize the initiative

By challenging Flournoy while posing those questions — and answering them in the negative — activism succeeded in changing “Defense Secretary Flournoy” from a fait accompli to a lost fantasy of the military-industrial complex.

As the global pandemic was unfolding in the United States, Biden rightly said, “In this moment of crisis, we should be sending federal resources to those who need it most. It’s not just good economics—it’s the right thing to do.”

Declaring that “we do not need a hawk with relationships with the weapons industry,” Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams also urged Biden not to pick Michèle Flournoy as defense secretary

Football is about Politics and Class Struggle

Construction on the Enbridge Line 3 extension—which will transport up to 760,000 barrels of the world’s dirtiest oil daily—began earlier this week, despite strong Native opposition

As the original New Deal demonstrated, a national movement of reform can realize some of its most significant achievements at a state level

Biden’s foreign policy is likely to be a continuation of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’, though under a different designation

While the Biden plan is not as comprehensive as that proposed in the Democratic primaries by Jay Inslee or as radical as Bernie Sanders’, it has the potential to make very substantial reductions in GHG emissions while creating substantial numbers of climate jobs and a more equal society

We who would improve ourselves, our relatives, our friends, our neighbors, or especially the world, need to learn how to deal with our tendencies to delusion, not only in its most obvious political forms like sectarianism, but also in its more personal dimensions that are cumulatively no less deadly to our political and social openness to critical change.

In their lives, work, and tragic, untimely deaths, the women inspired people in El Salvador who, deeply moved by their ultimate sacrifice, would at long last prevail in their freedom struggle.

Progressives should emphatically challenge every odious aspect of the Biden administration, every step of the way

We need a new FREC with a clear, Congressionally mandated mission to give leadership in the urgent, fossil-fuels-to-renewables transition and a FREC leadership that is actually committed to doing that

The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last days in office to sabotage Biden’s chances of successful diplomacy with Iran

“We’re now seeing families who had an emergency fund but it’s gone and they’re at the end of their rope,” said one Texas food bank director.

Once again, Europe’s top diplomats expressed their ‘deep concern’ regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions “threaten the viability of the two-state solution”

Interview on the Movement to Oppose Michèle Flournoy as Pentagon Chief

Not only was Israel allowed to expand old settlements and build new ones throughout Trump’s term, but was actually encouraged by US officials to do so with a great sense of urgency

Both Trump and Trumpism will remain with us for a long time, both the individual himself and the poisonous currents he has unleashed

Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant agenda separated untold numbers of families, including mine. Will the new administration fix the mess?

People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault

Study after study shows that the people who suffer and die early from the diseases of poverty brought on by a poor diet, sub-standard housing and the priorities of the political elite and its hostile “welfare” officials — are working people

We shouldn’t give Biden any breathing room and wait to see what he does before acting. We need to build campaigns and social movements and mass action in the streets for progressive policies

Even if that were true and that a Biden Administration is keen on reclaiming the US position in the Middle East and within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), such a task will not be easy

Biden’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Michèle Flourno,y should be understood as a scenario for the president-elect to stick his middle fingers in the eyes of Americans who are fed up with endless war and ongoing militarism

Biden may tone down Trump’s trade war and bring back some limited human rights advocacy, but there may be more continuity than either administration admits