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…

The horror of the Yemen War is changing minds at last

This is not the happy, triumphant ending that generations of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have hoped and fought for over the years

Progressives are apt to be enthusiastic about O’Rourke — if they don’t know much about his record

Now that a $170 billion foreign debt cliff looms

We need to critically analyze some of the shortfalls of the capitalist logic embedded in this plan. We have to push back and improve upon the Green New Deal

Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure?

This program meets the needs of—and has the potential to unite—the labor movement, environmentalists, and all those who have been the victims of inequality, discrimination, racism and, now, climate change

Canada has not changed at all. It is our understanding of Canadian foreign policy that has almost always been marred with a true lack of understanding

A really nice thing happened in my local town. A random act of kindness. Some homeless people who were sleeping rough were…

Skyrocketing prices for all three forms of housing have created a generational divide, with major political implications for progressive city governments and advocates of affordable housing

Interview on U.S.’ aggression in the Asia-Pacific region and the decline of its global dominance and says that a “new Cold War beckons isolation for the U.S. and danger for the rest of us”

For the first time in my memory, a critical mass of groups joined together, about ten national and many local, state and regional ones, to fight a FERC nomination

Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Central America

As wars rage on, every voice crying out in affliction should be heard

The only way to overcome such corporatism is for social movements to fight more resolutely and effectively for progressive change, including in the Democratic Party

Building Block for the Green New Deal

The movements that pressured the U.S. Senate to reject current U.S. foreign policy regarding Saudi Arabia and its war on Yemen will continue raising voices

Interview on the socio-economic transformations taking place within the core of the European Union and how much time is left until it disintegrates

The Era of Easy Wars is over

No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles

Bolsonaro’s impending presidency marks the most radical political shift Brazil since military rule ended more than 30 years ago

Rodrigo Duterte and Xi Jinping are loving their bromance. But the relationship doesn’t have a lot of popular support

We should never forget that electoral politics, while not to be dismissed, should not be the prime focus of serious radical political action

Needless to say, $72 million will not turn the tide in favor of Apartheid Israel, nor will it change the course of history that can only belong to the people who are unrelenting on achieving their long-coveted freedom

This year, many progressive individuals and organizations have moved beyond the false choice of either building movements or seriously trying to win elections. We can and must do both—simultaneously, not sequentially—to the benefit of both parallel tasks

Netanyahu Supports the Death Penalty against Palestinians

With Hollywood on my mind, I continue to seek a good outcome. I figure it won’t be Marvel, but maybe a new franchise can emerge focused on films seeking fundamental societal change

Michael Albert talking about The Next American Revolution from Stuart Platt on Vimeo. On a speaking engagement in Scotland, just before the…

Screenplay for Next American Revolution

There has been a massive flood of election assessments. What was gained? What worked? What didn’t? What are people proposing in response?…