I hope those walking for peace, working for equality, and imploring a different way forward can be heard and celebrated not only in Afghanistan, but in every country

Destitution, Unemployment & Hunger Must Be Addressed

By their inclusiveness when it comes to issues, as well as the range of social movements involved, the Poor People’s Campaign is modeling a central, essential element of our path forward to revolutionary change

Italy Under an All-Populist Government and EU’s Impasse

The following is the adapted text of an interview that first appeared in Modern Success magazine. So many things have been written about, and…

Ongoing battles between militants, government forces, and international allies have destroyed much of Kabul’s water infrastructure, forcing people to drill their own wells

What’s the Constitution got to do with climate? Current legal cases are now addressing that question

Interview on the state of nuclear geopolitics, international solidarity and more

Whether pushing for action on climate change, peace, LGBTQ equality, feminism, reproductive choice, or fighting racism, Cagan’s voice, presence, and expertise have long been visible

A ‘think tank’ is sometimes a group of people paid to think, by the people who control the tanks (as Naomi Klein once remarked). Here in…

Interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world

Chapter 24 of RPS/2044

Fathi Harb should have had something to live for, not least the imminent arrival of a new baby. But last week the 21-year-old extinguished his life in an inferno of flames in central Gaza

Interview on the realities and dangers of foreign relations in the age of “gangster capitalism” and the decline of the US as a superpower

Will the international community remain trapped between hollow statements and no action?

As Yemeni civilians’ lives become increasingly desperate, they become increasingly isolated, their suffering made invisible by a near-total lack of Western media interest or attention

How the events of 1968 transformed French society

Trump needs Americans to believe there is an imminent threat to our collective safety and security in order to whip up his base and retain support

This is the best opportunity since 1998 that the opposition has to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution. So why are they boycotting the election?

When Google Earth was launched in 2001, I rushed immediately to locate a village that no longer exists on a map, which…

Noam Chomsky is Political Awareness Committee Student Organization Speaker at St. Olaf College

From the Iran Deal to the Israel Embassy Move

A “non-party opposition” is a convergence of social movements that performs some of the classical functions of an opposition party without the goal of taking state power

Occupy is a tactic, not a movement. It succeeded in placing crucial issues on the agenda, radical inequality for one

Will Buffy The Bernie Slayer Win in Pro-Sanders District?

The Missing Story from the Gaza Protests

We need to mobilize people—left, right, independent—to stop Trump from taking us into war with Iran

With six months to go before the midterm election, new national polls are showing that the Democratic Party’s much-touted momentum to gain control of the House has stalled out

In the first quarter of 2018, according to FERC, approximately 2% of the new electrical generation capacity (power plants) came from natural gas, while 94% of it came from wind and solar

A discussion on nuclear policy and war

Gaza Bleeds Alone as ‘Liberals’ and ‘Progressives’ Go Mute

For those determined to retain their positions in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party hierarchy, democracy within the party sounds truly scary

In June 2017, the young black attorney Chokwe Antar Lumumba was elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, with 93 percent of the vote. A look at the grassroots mobilisation that launched him to office

If the US pulls out, we could be heading down the path of another senseless war. That’s why the forces of the UN, Congress and the American public are so pivotal

Talk on “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis,” recorded April 25, 2018 at Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle

From Starbucks to Waffle House

Let’s grow our movement’s positive energy and numbers by becoming known, more and more, as we build our power, as a people’s movement that loves to sing

The DNC’s lawsuit amounts to doubling down on its fixation of blaming Russia for the Democratic Party’s monumental 2016 loss, at a time when it’s essential to remedy the failed approaches

Editor’s note: Reports of a chemical attack in Syria have generated controversy and conflicting claims about what happened and who was responsible.…

Albert Einstein, along with other Jewish luminaries, including Hannah Arendt, published a letter in the New York Times on December 4, 1948 denouncing Israel’s newly-founded Herut party and its young leader, Menachem Begin

Interview on Trump and the Future of US Politics

It is a calculated and long-term campaign, aimed at guarding Israel and demonizing Palestinians

Interview on the intellectual, social media with respect to his propaganda model, the #MeToo movement, India’s Aadhaar system, freedom of speech, China’s constitutional amendment, and anarchism and the Left today

Review of Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont by Yvonne Daley and Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben

This is chapter twenty three of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution. RPS/2044 has its own book…

Whether They Like It or Not

This is chapter twenty two of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution. RPS/2044 has its own book…

A review of RPS 2044: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution, by Michael Albert

As thousands of Palestinians walked peacefully into the deadly ‘buffer zone’ along the Gaza border into the sights of Israeli snipers, their intention was clear: to be seen by the world as ordinary citizens, to show themselves as ordinary human beings

This is chapter twenty one of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution. RPS/2044 has its own book…