Its Face is Cruel and Selfish

There’s no doubt that Bernie Sanders will do all he can to help defeat Donald Trump

There have been more than a dozen strikes in the past two weeks by workers striking to protect themselves against infection by the coronavirus. They have already won increased protection. What do they portend for the future?

On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail

The Obama administration foresaw the problem, and contracted with a small firm that specialized in producing inexpensive, high-quality ventilators. But then capitalist logic intervened

Lacking linkages to the necessary street-heat that should accompany all the new policy demands, most pro-poor advocacy has been directed at meekly persuading a Presidency, Treasury and Reserve Bank to reverse course

VA Privatization Leaves Veterans Waist Deep in Another Big Muddy 

In their zeal to boost the number of Biden delegates as fast as possible, the Biden campaign and the DNC chair ignored or distorted the guidelines that were in effect at the time from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

“Car demonstrations” had people arriving in cars to an open parking lot area, standing outside at appropriate 6 feet or more apart distances, with organizers giving directions and instructions and coordinates to join a Whats App channel for communication purposes

Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly

Particularly now, with intense focus on U.S. health care, it’s timely to recognize that in the past five years U.S. supported Gulf Coalition airstrikes bombed Yemen’s health care facilities 83 times

Whether the epidemic helps deliver the good or the most evil society will depend, of course, on us – on whether progressives manage to band together

Interview on why the Left around Europe is struggling to overcome Syriza’s disastrous legacy

The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as the champion of a new global “connectivity.” With the coronavirus, that phase is finished

Listening to whatever moves, informs, and also pleases you ear may aid living better in all times and especially in our times

To fight like hell for the living — to protect people from the ravages of the coronavirus and a harsh economic system — will require unrelenting work from progressive movements willing and able to organize effectively in every political arena

Infection spreads, pontification too. Some is smart and helpful, some is disgusting. With all the interruptions of so-called normality, have you noticed…

Syrian Refugees Should Not Be Used as Political Pawns

The U.S. invasion was a crime of aggression under international law, and was actively opposed by people and countries all over the world

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