This is the third in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism

Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing

This is the second in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism

What the Great March of Return is Really About

Six Unusual Veterans Ponder Active Duty and Its Aftermath

This is the first in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism

We in the United States have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war

While we can’t guarantee that candidates will stick to their campaign promises, we still must ask this vital question: What prospects for peace might each of them bring to the White House?

In the United States, when anyone challenges the continued expansion of NATO, innuendos or outright smears are likely

The Sanders campaign is a nationwide struggle for the kind of power that Dr. King extolled as “love implementing the demands of justice.” In his words, “Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose.”

How a GOP Accessory Became a Top Democratic Contender for President

Political movements don’t get very far if they depend on appealing to the moral scruples of the powerful

The 21,000-member NewsGuild, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), is a rarity in organized labor. It’s one of the few…

“Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should…

The Untold Story of Gaza’s ‘March of Return’

While most Americans have no memory of this incident, in Iran the date of the deaths of 290 innocent people at the hands of the U.S. military is marked every year just as the 9/11 attack is remembered every year in the United States

What Are Palestinians Doing to Combat the ‘Deal of the Century’?

Talking about the media, the Green New Deal, nuclear war, Gaza, and Venezuela

Trump’s economic strangulation is having devastating people on the Iranian people

Whether Biden can win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination will largely depend on how many voters don’t know much about his actual record

Chelsea Manning’s principled and courageous actions provide guidance for us to control our fears. We must seek an end to war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and other areas where the U.S. terrifies and kills civilians

This is what happens when you have a two-parties-only, winner-take-all electoral system with gerrymandered election districts and no proportional representation

How different our world could be if efforts were instead directed toward education, health care, and community welfare

The task for those believing in justice, then, is to take the crisis on directly and not fall prey to evasion or ignorance

Otzma Yehudit’s platform only reinforces the existing “core values” of Israel, the same values that AIPAC itself champions without the slightest regard for human rights, international law and the principles of true democratic values

Why such a detailed agenda? To show voters that there is an alternative, even within the rules designed by the establishment to further the interests of the top 1%

The effects of mobilized demands for change in the Democratic presidential nominating process have been major — not out of the goodness of any power broker’s heart, but because progressives have organized effectively during the last two years

Stop scrolling. Organise. Occupy. Insist. Persist. Make a noise. Take direct action. Be brave and stay brave. Defy the thought police

While the blood of Palestinians is irrelevant in Netanyahu’s quest for political dominance, the international community should take immediate measures to prevent what could become an Israeli-induced bloodbath

Interview on the Green New Deal, the need for mass civil disobedience, and the necessity of building an internationalist movement for eco-socialism

The New Deal was part of a process of social change that included experimentation at a state, regional, and local level

The African country with by far the most advanced infrastructure and largest energy supply increasingly appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in its economic, ecological and electricity systems

We can envision and make happen what the world needs at this absolutely critical moment for its threatened ecosystems and people

Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies

When it comes to suppressing the people of Latin America in their hopes to control their own fortunes and their own resources, the scribblers have a key role to play, as much as their diplomatic and military counterparts

The only real hope for the 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign is that a grassroots uprising will become powerful enough to overcome the massive obstacles

The Critical Messages of the Hamas-Fatah Talks in Moscow

Enough Western Meddling and Interventions

Constant military surveillance of Afghans yields almost no real intelligence about the problems they face each day. An unusual group of volunteers uses a far different approach

With a launch of the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign on the near horizon, efforts to block his trajectory to the Democratic presidential nomination are intensifying

At what point do we say that someone who has done or said something objectionable, something that is not criminal by nature, has changed?

The only things that will force such a radical change in U.S. policy are public outrage, education and organizing, and international solidarity with the people of Venezuela

Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of besieged Gaza to show their support of the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and it’s legitimate leader, President Nicolas Maduro

“Manufacturing Consent” predicted how a privately owned free press could function as a propaganda system

You can’t, on the one hand, support a strong push for 100% renewables, green jobs, environmental justice and then, on the other, be silent about the expansion of the industry which we need to downsize as quickly as possible

For many years, a considerable majority of the US population has favored higher taxes on the rich, while they regularly decline

How SEIU’s Self-Inflicted Loss Became Labor’s Gain

While on the surface aimed at one individual, such an assault is actually an ideological war against the vision of government aligned with social justice

Diplomatic ties with Chad and Mali may garner Netanyahu a few more votes next April, but they will also contribute to the Israeli illusion that it can be an international darling and an Apartheid regime, simultaneously

We in the U.S. have much to learn from Afghan women human rights advocates and the People’s Peace Movement regarding the futility of war