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

30 years ago, a struggle against NYNEX, a telecom giant, became one of labor’s few big strike victories, during a decade that began with the disastrous defeat of PATCO, the national air traffic controllers union

Depending on whether we resist or acquiesce, grieve or complacently ignore, we ourselves risk becoming the tragic, perpetually dangerous remnants of war.

At War, a new movie from Cinema Libre Studio, vividly portrays shop floor resistance to corporate power in small-town France

The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return

National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations

Harris Now in Top Tier with Biden to Prevent a Progressive Nominee

It’s not like all of this is completely new, but the lengths to which Trump is willing to take his vile racism is new

Trump’s foreign policy is a deadly farce that is consolidating the global alliance of right-wing leaders

Authoritarian governments have tried to rig elections for ages. More dangerous are the far-right leaders concentrating their power by relatively fair elections

A Noble Legacy That Must Never Be Betrayed

Iraq is not Iran. Times and circumstances have changed dramatically since the US siege and invasion of Iraq in 2003. Iran and the entire world are aware of this

Investors are pondering where to put their money this week after the sudden decline in the assessed value of presidential candidate Joe Biden

24 hours from now thousands of people will be gathering for the Queer Liberation March, the alternative to the Heritage of Pride/World…

End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue

Encouraged by the Donald Trump administration’s decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israeli government officials feel that the time for annexing the entirety of the West Bank is now

Interview on socialism, anarchism, and the fight for progress in U.S. politics today

Palestinians Keep Their Right of Return Alive Through Hope, Resistance

Interview on the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria

But what about a political tipping point? Could that be about to happen, too, or are we in the beginning of one already?

For Biden, the personal is the political; he knows that he’s virtuous, and that should be more than good enough for African Americans, for women, for anyone

For the empire, genocide, like aggression, is a normal part of politics. Nuclear planners plan how to commit it. Sanctions officials administer it. And for the most part, human rights organizations take no position on it

Economic Sabotage That Is Deadly, Illegal, and Ineffective

It presents the most, the gravest threat to press freedom which I can remember

A look at Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement

Interview about the persecution of the WikiLeaks publisher and the rapid crackdown on investigative journalism

Let’s Talk About the ‘Israeli Model’

An Open Letter to Joe Biden

On June 30th, the Queer Liberation March will take to the streets of NYC

Trump’s “counter-revolution” in veterans’ care will divert billions of dollars from a national healthcare system uniquely equipped to serve the poor and working-class veterans who qualify for VHA coverage

Israel’s judicial system is untrustworthy and the ICC has the legal right and moral duty to carry out the will of the international community and hold to account those responsible for war crimes anywhere, including Israel

Joe Biden’s glaring absence from the California Democratic Party convention has thrown a national spotlight on his eagerness to detour around the party’s progressive base