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

The sharp rise in suicides and overdoses under Trump exposes the truth about the U.S. economy

Autopsy reveals the British-South African corpse’s poisoning by microfinance, ‘development finance’ and corporate finance

The only difference between the US ‘peace process’ of the past and today’s ‘Deal of the Century’ is in the style and tactics as opposed to the substance and details

An obituary for the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’

Led by John Bolton, the Trump administration is pursuing catastrophe to protect U.S. dominance

So much violence, militarism, war and suffering that need not be in this world. And yet there are people all over the world fighting against the systems that perpetuate these things

While we would have loved not to run, and instead to support existing parties that have worked with us on a meaningful policy agenda, Diem25 has taken the plunge, running in several countries at once with a single, substantive, ambitious green new deal agenda

During pivotal moments in the history of race relations in this country, from the 1970s to the 1990s, Biden’s hot air manifested as pitches to white racism

Interview on Bernie Sanders and the 2020 election to the challenges posed by Big Tech

Interview on the growing threat of war with Iran and the role of National Security Advisor John Bolton, who Benjamin says has been pushing for war with Iran for years

This is the twentieth and last essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold

Netanyahu bombed Gaza because it is the only unifying demand among all of his allies

This is the nineteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold

We need to replace FERC. As part of a Green New Deal FERC should be transformed, renamed and repurposed. It is time for FERC to be replaced by FREC, the Federal Renewable Energy Commission

[This is the eighteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge…

During more than five decades, he’s been part of progressive social movements that are committed to really changing the political winds — not blowing with them

This is the seventeenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold

Recent criticism of Joe Biden for praising Dick Cheney as “a decent man” and Mike Pence as “a decent guy” merely scratches the surface of what’s wrong with the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination

This is the sixteenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold