Joe Biden vs. Bernie Sanders is not only an electoral contest between presidential candidates. It’s also a contrast of patchwork fixes vs. profound structural changes

U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people

We need to push hard on those politicians and media spokespeople who put ideology above the much-needed search for the truth and a cure, which we may already have

‘Zionist’ Biden in His Own Words

How does this democratic socialist handle crises? We got an idea on Wednesday when both Bernie and Biden spoke to the country about the coronavirus crisis and what needed to be done.

How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen? It isn’t

Source: Tedglick.com The last 11 days have been rough for the Bernie Sanders campaign and all his supporters. Yesterday’s voting was a…

The Bernie 2020 Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue

The PA Does Israel’s Dirty Work in the West Bank

Could Sanders soon lose any chance of becoming the nominee? Sure. Could Biden become the nominee and then lose to Trump. Sure.…

If past beneficiaries of Sanders’ labor support don’t return that favor soon, they may discover there’s a price to be paid, down the road, for acting like solidarity is a one-way street

In the midst of these pivotal election battles, Warren should provide a vehement endorsement of Sanders and swiftly begin to campaign for him. Choosing, instead, to stand on the sidelines would be a tragic betrayal of progressive principles

What is needed is a fundamental and structural change that would emancipate the Palestinian healthcare system from the horrific impact of the Israeli occupation and the Israeli government’s policies of perpetual siege and politically-imposed ‘quarantines’ – also known as apartheid

It was clear from his rousing speech last evening at 10 PM in Vermont that he and his campaign see silver linings and a path forward to possible victory at the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee

Many on the U.S. left fear governing power, in part because it has been so difficult to achieve. More recent optimism among socialists is a welcome development—but we need a middle ground between being cynical and naive

Most workplaces are ‘mildly alienating at best.’ Giving workers decision-making power over their own lives can help

The 17,000 people who jammed into the Los Angeles Convention Center to hear Sanders speak on Sunday night are part of a progressive populist upsurge that shows no sign of abating

Interview on how elitism and atomization have created political rifts

On Thursday February 27 thousands of Minneapolis cleaning workers walked off their jobs and struck their downtown commercial high-rises. Among their key demands was that their employers take action on climate change

On Hanging from the Blades of a Bulldozer

I find myself powerfully moved and inspired by Bernie Sanders and the movement to elect him the next President of the U.S.…

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channeling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel’s history

Who’s Really Keeping Us in The Dark About Campaign Funding?

Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same

How are the corporate rulers going to stop this political juggernaut?

The bizarre accusations of being “narrow” and not “inclusive” were aimed at a candidate who’d just won a historic victory with one of the broadest coalitions in recent Democratic Party history.

When we speak about dictatorships, we call this brainwashing: the conquest of minds. It is a truth we rarely apply to our own societies, regardless of the trail of blood that leads back to us and which never dries

With very few exceptions, the loudest voices to be heard from mass media are coming from individuals with wealth far above the financial vicinity of average Americans

After the RCMP raided and dismantled the Wet’suwet’en roadblocks, rail, port and transportation blockades have spread across Canada in solidarity

China’s rapid growth has reduced poverty and produced prosperity — as well as skyrocketing inequality, ecological catastrophe, and dangerous financial bubbles

The peace movement’s small victories demonstrate that we have more power to challenge U.S. militarism than most Americans realize

Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, for sure, but we can also turn a negative into a positive

Arabs and Muslims Must Take a United Stance for Palestine

[This is a transcript of Episode 58 of the Podcast titled RevolutionZ.] Recently nine long-time progressive/revolutionary activists — myself, Noam Chomsky, Kathy…

You’d think that a presidential campaign backed by 40 billionaires and untold numbers of bundled rich people wouldn’t worry about just one leaflet on Medicare for All

Trump targeted his State of the Union speech at precisely the Rust Belt workers that he’ll need to win reelection in November

Many on the U.S. left fear governing power, in part because it has been so difficult to achieve. More recent optimism among socialists is a welcome development—but we need a middle ground between being cynical and naive

Like millions of other progressives who support Bernie 2020, I realize that the forces arrayed against us are tremendously powerful. That’s the nature of the corporate beast

The Palestinian leadership cannot be absolved from its responsibility towards the Palestinian people, and its unmitigated failure to develop a comprehensive national strategy

The core of Sanders’s “politico-ideological gestalt” is his long-standing commitment to the interests of the large majority of the population

First, thanks to Howie Hawkins, not for myself or for the nine signers, but I would say for the whole left writ…

Only the power of people, determined and mobilized, can overcome the forces arrayed against the Bernie Sanders campaign and the movements supporting him at this pivotal historic moment

Buttigieg rhetoric fits snugly into a creation myth about his campaign that he has been promoting since early 2019

Jack Rasmus says that I “engaged in quote by quote commentary,” but he won’t “bother readers with a detailed ‘he said she…

Jack Rasmus sent his essay “You Can Trust ‘Left Liberals’ to be Liberals First (and Left Last): A Reply to Chomsky &…

“Never before have we had so much money, yet so little investment in what humanity needs”

Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean

[ZNet note: Howie Hawkins sent ZNet his on-topic and very welcome reply to the Open Letter to the Green Party, and of…

And New Hampshire’s Youth Movement Is Showing How

The progressive political revolution is very alive and very well, and that is huge