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

Imperial vultures and sub-imperial doves both turn away from economic carcass

Once again, a formidable burst of state brutality against Zimbabwe’s citizenry has left at least a dozen corpses, scores of serious injuries, mass arrests, internet suspension and a furious citizenry

On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged to send $20 million to the Venezuelan opposition in the form of humanitarian…

From economic sanctions to international pressure, how has the US strategy for regime change in Venezuela worked until now?

While a greater support for the ‘State of Palestine’ is a positive sign indicating a changing world order, it is, sadly, used by the Palestinian leadership to sustain its own oppressive, futile and corrupt political gambit

How AIPAC-Israel agenda became US priority

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Los Angeles teachers are telling the district and the world that their public schools have been deeply damaged by years of austerity

For Israel to be seeking compensation from Arab countries and Iran is a moral travesty, especially as Palestinians refugees continue to languish in refugee camps across Palestine and the Middle East

Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the…

The time has come for a New Peace Deal that repudiates endless war and the threat of nuclear war

Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model

You could lose, lose, lose and completely lose. But if you learn from what’s happening and you take lessons, then potentially the pattern of seeming losses prepares you to win

A society that allows many, many people to live on less than £100 per week while a privileged few get by on over £100,000 is surely a great place to live

“We want to challenge Donald Trump … by pointing out that he continues to support the war in Yemen and the repressive Saudi regime”

Is protecting Israeli Apartheid more important to Americans than preserving the fundamental nature of their own democracy?

Noam Chomsky’s ideas on the media in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media have provided us with a guide, full of cautionary tales and ideas that are still controversial to this day

Should the candidates that mass media and party elites put forward as “progressive” be quickly embraced or carefully scrutinized? The question must be asked and answered

As our nation debates the merits of President Trump’s call for withdrawing US troops from Syria and Afghanistan, absent from the debate…