Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding

By remaining part of social movements, Bernie has made himself especially antithetical to the elite sensibilities of corporate media. Elites rarely appreciate any movement that is challenging their unjust power.

The sustained protests in Colombia are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war

Their Clash Underscores the Need for Grassroots Wisdom

In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?

What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank

Interview on the incredible global failure to address the climate crisis, as well as the nuclear arms race, which are both leading humanity to a precipice that may be impossible to walk away from

Corporate Democrats got a jolt at the end of last week when the highly regarded Iowa Poll showed Bernie Sanders surging into first place among Iowans likely to vote in the state’s Feb. 3 caucuses

— and Democrats’ High Jumps Over Low Standards Aren’t Helping

Act of war? Perhaps we can settle on reckless international terrorism

‘Panic’ in Israel as the ICC Takes ‘Momentous Step’ in the Right Direction

There’s nothing like an illegal and utterly reckless U.S. act of war to illuminate the political character of presidential candidates

One of the most common features of right-wing populist and fascist movements is the demand for ethnic and/or racial purity

Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation in the Middle East

How General Strike Rhetoric Became A City-Wide Reality

The following is an open letter written to Howie Hawkins about Green electoral policy in 2020

Images of battered and destroyed hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of hospital personnel trying nevertheless to heal people and save lives, help me retain a basic truth about U.S. wars of choice: We don’t have to be this way.

A talk on the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Suleimani in Iraq, about who he was, why this moment is so dangerous, and what the principles of an antiwar movement should be

It’s a new year, and the U.S. has found a new enemy—an Iraqi militia called Kata’ib Hezbollah. How tragically predictable was that?

How to Combat Israel’s Misuse of ‘Anti-Semitism’

Abstractions and evasions of the sort practiced daily by Buttigieg and Biden amount to papering over class conflicts

Hanna has served as the Head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem since 2005. Since then, he has used his leadership position to advocate for Palestinian unity in all of its manifestations

It’s hard to think of this year without obsessing about the occupant of the White House. But yes, there were lots of other events going on in the world this year. Some of them were tragic, like the coup in Bolivia, but some are hopeful and move us in a positive direction. Here are ten

“No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression”

If the 2019 trends continue, the struggle among Israel’s political elites is likely to deepen the country’s instability

For corporate Democrats and their profuse media allies, the approach of disparaging and minimizing Bernie Sanders in 2019 didn’t work. In 2020, the next step will be to trash him with a vast array of full-bore attacks

Mayor Pete’s Favorite Wine-Maker Hasn’t Been A Good Napa Neighbor

Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture the everyday reality of the Strip – its formidable steadfastness, the everyday acts of resistance

A look at the necessary aspects of a winning strategy, many of which are already happening now

The super-wealthy individuals and huge corporations that own the biggest U.S. media outlets don’t want actual democracy. It would curb their profits and their power.

Rich countries embraced trade multilateralism when it suited them, and now they’re abandoning it. That may not be such a bad thing

Permanently ending this entire U.S. policy of coercive regime change is a political, moral and existential imperative

How UN Resolution 2334 Accelerated Israel’s Colonization in the West Bank

Let’s do all in our power to turn the Republican Party’s unanimous kissing of Mafioso Don’s ring in the House yesterday into a massive wave of popular revulsion and a progressive political landslide next November

How UN resolution 2334 accelerated Israel’s colonisation in the West Bank

The need for a Sanders-Warren united front should be clear — as clear as the imperative of rolling back the monstrous right-wing power that has controlled the presidency during the last three years

The strengths of Chinese-style capitalism have also been its vulnerabilities.

The University of Cape Town Fails Palestine, Embraces Israel

As Guild president for the next four years,  Schleuss will now have to encourage–on a much larger scale–the same kind of rank-and-file initiative and grassroots organizing that turned his own paper into a union shop

Power concedes nothing. Fatalism is a poison that gets us nowhere. Constant organizing — outside and inside the electoral arena — is the antidote to powerlessness

Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost

With a new generation of activists in the streets demanding more serious climate action and clamoring for climate justice, we may be seeing the beginnings of a movement that can finally turn things around

Twenty years ago, experts refused to see the truth about the dark side of globalization. Then Seattle happened

Two Deceptive Supporters of the Iraq War

In an age where people around the world want to avoid war and to focus instead on the climate chaos that threatens future life on earth, NATO is an anachronism.

The reason that Netanyahu is still in power after all the setbacks and outright failures is the fact that his rivals are yet to mobilise the necessary votes and public support to oust him for good

Long-time peace, justice, democracy and lgbtq activist and trainer George Lakey has written a book, How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

As I left the visitor’s room, I looked back, as I always do. Julian sat alone, his fist clenched and held high

The mass media of the United States — owned and sponsored by corporate giants — are in the midst of a siege against the two progressive Democratic candidates who have a real chance to be elected president in 2020

The End of Netanyahu’s Era and the Political Earthquake ahead