It makes sense that this fresh and hopeful wind of change sweeping across Turtle Island is impacting some of those who have some power, like federal judges, and unnerving the “them” in “them and us.”

Now is the time for action, not pity

Jon Stewart’s new Hollywood film, Irresistible, is well worth watching just because of the timeliness and relevance of its other subject matter—the Democratic Party’s frantic recruitment of veterans to run for public office

The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars

Those who have primary responsibility for the multiple crises that imperil us today are hard at work, relentlessly, to ensure that the system they created, and from which they have greatly benefited, will endure

Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy

The Floyd rebellion, if followed by a general strike and People’s Assemblies, can blossom into an instrument of dual power that could radically transform society

Co-chairs of California’s huge delegation, Ro Khanna and Barbara Lee, have an opportunity to directly challenge the Democratic Party’s default embrace of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism”

The best prospect for today is that we move from outrage at police violence and racist and social deprivation to positive demands for changes that improve the lot of the suffering but that also pave the way for still greater changes

Interview on the “absolutely unprecedented scope and scale” of the protests against the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and why Trump’s refusal to act to stop the impending catastrophe of climate change makes him “the worst criminal in human history.”

It looks like the president’s goal is to make America white

What we on the Left in the USA do over the next 130 days will be decisive for not just the country but for our deeply wounded world. Everything is at stake right now, and we need to act accordingly

The world that our global empire is swiftly creating, through our devastating oil wars in the Middle East and our arriving cold wars with Russia and China, is a world without winners

In the electoral arena, the goal is not only about winning elections. It’s also about replacing the top-down weight of entrenched politicians with the bottom-up power of grassroots activism

Biden’s unconditional support for Israel’s rightwing government is not only less and less popular among Americans, but it guarantees continued repression against Palestinians and continued unrest in the region

Interview on the challenges of responding to the coronavirus, the future of our relationship to technology, and history’s lessons for moving forward

If Trump was a stand-up comic instead of a President, this trivial, self-pitying story might become known as one of the best, long, stand-up comic routines of the year

There are big issues. They matter to society hugely. Things like why does an economic and social system foresee the arrival of…

It is critical that we do not reduce our understanding of this troubling rapport between the US and Israel to military hardware and intelligence sharing

Here Are Some Alternatives That Are Proven to Work

Sanders defeated Biden by a margin of 8 percent in the California primary. But hidebound tradition as well as raw political power are arrayed against the Bernie delegates pushing for Khanna to chair the delegation

Interview on a variety of topics

Due to Cuba’s extraordinary commitment to humanity, to public health and to internationalism, a group of human rights organizations and social movements across the world have launched a campaign to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Cuba’s Henry Reeve medical brigade

Interview on a variety of topics

The law enforcement unions are not the problem; the history, culture and practices of the U.S. law enforcement system are the problem.

Among these impacts is a willingness by some police to carelessly shoot and brutalize young black men and other men of color for no justifiable reason, which has given rise to the deeply important Movement for Black Lives.

In politically turbulent Thailand, a public health system with popular support — not decrees from above — made all the difference

The Green New Deal may be a vehicle for building the broad movement for structural change necessary to truly make Black lives matter

With nearly 40 million un- or underemployed workers in the U.S., what will prevent endless calamity? When the economy restarts and stays…

The power of the masters is indeed fragile. It can be restricted, even overturned, by a public dedicated to different goals. But that requires organization.

Economic injustice is vital to the entire U.S. power structure. While many people of all races suffer as a result, people of color are at much greater risk

Together we must seize this moment to move from incremental reform to real systemic change, not just within the U.S. but throughout the racist, neocolonial world that is policed by the U.S. military

Why should people who already have so much be entitled to get more? And if we’re to learn how to live together without killing one another, how can we dismantle and repurpose the vast killing machine that protects our unfair white privilege?

We need to come away from the current upheavals with organization, with vision and goals, with program and campaigns that all persist and mature and strengthen rather than folding back into business as usual

White organizers who are serious about anti-racism need to have ongoing connections to people of color, by participating in a multicultural organization of some kind, at a minimum

The protests are not just calling for an end to police brutality in Black communities, but for much more fundamental restructuring of social and economic institutions

George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments

Interview on the current US protest spreading like fire across the country following the police killing of George Floyd, the forthcoming US elections and why it is crucial to vote not for someone in this case, but against someone

With latest research indicating that about 35 percent of infected people have no symptoms at all, unwillingness to wear a mask jeopardizes the health of others

In Donald Trump’s current provocations of China, the US bases in Australia are described as the “tip of the spear”

I remember first hearing the phrase, “Shoot the looters to kill” in 1968, with its parent being the then despicable Mayor Daley…

One of the many good things about the massive demonstration in Newark yesterday was the unity in action on the part of the predominantly Black and very multi-racial gathering

Why the United States bears responsibility for Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

 “The question isn’t: did the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 have a lawful excuse to do what they did. The question is, what’s our excuse not to do more? What will rise us?”

The message of these groups dedicated to “countering extremism” is clear and none too subtle: Saudi Arabia and the UAE are always U.S. allies and victims of extremism, never a problem or a source of danger, violence or chaos

With Klobuchar now on Joe Biden’s short list for vice president, the gruesome killing of Floyd has refocused attention on Klobuchar’s history of racial injustice

Even in the midst of the pandemic, the rich are getting richer and bolder in their fight against working Americans

How did the United States — the richest country in the world — become the worldwide epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, with one person dying of COVID-19 every 47 seconds?

The 24/7 siege to make large companies more profitable and the wealthy more wealthy is going on all around us. In the process, it normalizes avoidable death as a cost of doing business

How Memory Became Palestine’s Greatest Weapon