After many years of carefully refusing to launch a single campaign in support of brave whistleblowers who faced vicious prosecution during the Obama administration MoveOn.org has just cherrypicked a whistleblowing hero it can support

Recovering from a broken hip, peace activist Kathy Kelly reflects on her experiences with people disabled and traumatized by war

To free up billions of Pentagon dollars for investing in critical environmental projects and to eliminate the environmental havoc of war, movements for a livable, peaceful planet need to put “ending war” at the top of the “must do” list

Biden is campaigning with the central claim that he’s the most qualified candidate to restore bipartisan cooperation after defeating Trump

Instrumentarian power would have you cede your privacy, your behavior, your free will, all to the profit imperatives of the tech giants

What a Gantz-led Government Means for Palestine

“Troublemaker,” by Bruce Hartford, is a personal memoir of what it was like to be part of the civil rights/Black Freedom movement between 1963 and 1967

Local action is often the best remedy for the failings of the current system — a worldwide confederation of democratic communities can have the same impact at a global scale

Discussing the challenges ahead and what needs to be done

Joe Biden’s recent efforts to deny his record of support for invading Iraq are marvels of evasion, with falsehoods that have been refuted by one well-documented appraisal after another after another

Deal of the Century is a Ploy and Annexation is the New Reality

Because Trump winning would literally threaten civilization, and because Sanders winning would not only stop Trump but take us a good distance in good directions, this election is the most important in my lifetime and perhaps ever – and thus worth serious participation

Amidst political posturing, aerial terrorism and street bombings, Afghan citizens pursue their daily work toward peace

Let the screams for help and pleas for mercy of Israa Ghrayeb be our guide as we fight against injustice in all of its forms and manifestations.

Dear DSA, Your priority attention to all sides of life and not only economy, your incredible growth, and your non sectarian, non…

Biden’s mediocre speech at the New Hampshire convention on September 7 is already a historic record of a dismal candidate for president whose nomination promises to be a disaster

The far-right is in ascendancy at the moment not only in reaction to the failures of neoliberalism, but also because of the failures of liberal democracy

John Nichols: When you were ten years old, you wrote a short essay on your concerns about the rise of fascism. You…

Why Socialized Medicine for Veterans is Worth Defending

Palestinians, who have been at the receiving end of racist Israeli laws, will continue to endure separation, isolation and travel restrictions long after the two Congresswomen’s story dies down

Insurgent progressives need a lot more allies elected to Congress as well as colleagues who feel rising heat from the left in their districts

The Israeli leader is desperate for any new political capital that could shield him against increasingly emboldened contenders in the country’s September 17 general elections

Talk at Black August event, August 30, 2019, Seattle WA

Campaigners invoke specters of climate chaos

For plutocrats, this summer has gotten a bit scary. Two feared candidates are rising. Trusted candidates are underperforming. The 2020 presidential election could turn out to be a real-life horror movie: A Nightmare on Wall Street

I wrote Siegebreakers because I can’t liberate Gaza or Palestine, but I can dream about it

Their pro-diplomacy worldview has blind spots. This creates a pretext for continuing U.S. militarism and risks undermining their commitment to peace

This is a proposal which articulates the urgency of our situation regarding the climate crisis and then puts forward a comprehensive and understandable set of actions which could actually get us out of it

Interview on the growing extremism of the Republican Party, Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, Democrats’ abandonment of the working class and impending threat of the climate crisis

It is always encouraging when an international call for unified action on the climate crisis is put out and there’s a widespread, positive response to it at the grassroots

While student demonstrators and draft resisters drew more mass media attention at the time, many military draftees, reservists and recently returned veterans also protested the Vietnam war—with equal fervor and often greater impact

What White Terrorists Have in Common

Interview on movements, and the problem of the smarmy professional class

And Corporate Media Overall

The imperative of preventing Trump’s re-election will require massive engagement and huge turnout of the Democratic base — exactly what doesn’t happen when party leaders are aloof, elitist, enthralled with Wall Street and dismissive of genuinely progressive principles

Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Court

I’ve supported the right of the Puerto Rican people to independence and self-determination since the early 1970’s when I became an activist in the Puerto Rico Solidarity Committee

A Primary Example Is Joe Biden

Tarantino’s mastery seems to be in reading the mood and making a movie for it. His latest movie is perfect for the…

Interview on the roots of gun culture, militarism, economic stagnation and growing inequality in the U.S.

The U.S. was founded on two brutal racist principles: the most hideous system of slavery in human history, the source of much of its wealth (and England’s too), and the need to rid the national territory of Native Americans

And His Allies in Beijing

Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence

So Many Names, So Many Lives

It is impossible to be objective and not come away from a reading of these hundreds of pages believing that, at a minimum, there was a definite effort led by Trump to cover up his personal and his campaign’s connections to the Russian government

Interview on Iran’s military deterrence strategy and the actions taken by U.S. leaders who cannot countenance what the State Department describes as Iran’s “successful defiance”

Interview on climate change, US empire, antisemitism, Venezuela, and much more

The suicidal impulses of the fossil fuel industry have been strongly supported by Republican administrations, by now, under Trump, leaving the U.S. in splendid isolation internationally

The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis

This is a crisis manufactured by Donald Trump and his team