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

The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them?

All of us who have been clapping and putting hearts in front of our buildings to honor essential workers will surely want to let their employers know we won’t buy anything from them as long as they are exposing their workers to disease and death

Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court’s jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied Palestine.

Stop racist killings! Act together to end the pandemic! Living wages or income now! A Green New Deal and Medicare for All! Trump must go!

A review of Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years

One thing seems clear: we are not going back to where we were, to business as usual

f the total number of Sanders delegates goes over the 25 percent threshold required by party rules — a goal that’s within reach — progressives will get appreciable leverage over convention decisions

Why do so many people believe in vast and incredible-sounding conspiracy theories?

Trump’s abdication of leadership is responsible for tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths so far

The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color

Interview on COVID-19 politics, the global economy and the environment

“Bernie’s campaign has suspended, but the movement to fight for the Bernie platform must go on”

Annexation of Palestine Began in San Remo

I would be lying if I said that I thought electing Biden, or anyone other than Sanders, was a guarantee of a transformation. It wouldn’t be. But it would be a blow against rising fascism in this country, at least, and hopefully much more

Trump has so far spurned this chance to make good on his promise to bring U.S. troops home, even as his lost wars and ill-defined global military occupation expose thousands of troops to the Covid-19 virus

How would a foreign loan help, given that the Reserve Bank could easily boost state finances by direct bond purchases – as indeed already occurred on a small scale in late March when the private sector failed to buy Treasury bills at auction?

Target, Amazon, Instacart Workers Demand Safe Conditions & Pandemic Relief

Why Israel’s Coalition Government is Likely to Survive

Interview on what’s behind Trump’s encouragement of the “anti-lockdown” protests, discusses the right-wing determination to destroy the U.S. Postal Service, and lays out his views on the electoral “lesser of two evils” principle

“Planet of the Humans” does a serious disservice to those seeking to bring a more systemic and forward-looking approach into the climate movement

An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez

Jeff Gibbs’ and Michael Moore’s movie, Planet of the Humans, must have “made my day” for the executives in the board rooms of Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP and all the other fossil fuel corporations

It is us, the people, and our true authentic voices – the ‘organic intellectuals’, not the celebrity philosophers – who have the right and the moral legitimacy to rise up to reclaim our democracy