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As the UK, France, Canada and Australia recognised (belatedly and hypocritically) the State of Palestine, it is important to cast an eye…
Trumpās executive order designating Antifa a ādomestic terrorist organizationā has spurred widespread interest in the anti-fascist movement. Of course, it is well understood that…
An opening address to the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) Network Pre-G20 Conference: Towards a Needed Paradigm Shift in Economic Policy Redge Nkosi:…
As President Donald Trump launches illegal armed attacks against American cities, peaceful civilians, and people in foreign countries that have not attacked…
Every day brings new indictments for Israel. The early accusations of genocide by South Africa are now quickly becoming an accepted legal…
France and Saudi Arabia have led unprecedented diplomatic efforts at the UN to formally recognise Palestinian statehood and outline a post-war plan…
Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK, the organization she cofounded, are synonymous with accosting power in the United States. Their fearless confrontations with the nationās…
Meaningless gestures Israelās most genocidal Western supporters are planning to ārecognizeā a āPalestinian stateā. France, Britain, maybe even Canada if the Palestinian…
James Jones is a 54-year-old disabled Army veteran. After four years of active dutyāsome of it in the Gulf Warāand four years…
Free speech stole the show last week during the joint press conference between US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir…
āPerhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway,ā Jackson wrote. āBut this Courtās complicity in the creation of a culture…
The time to laugh at a certified egomaniacal buffoon is gone. Confusion about his destination is gone. Doubt that he is on…
In several influential European countries, solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people is finally translating into action. Though such action may seem belated to…
āThe proper way to respondā to white supremacist fascism āis to have a backbone,ā says Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale…
As we did last year, the ZStaff is publishing our annual financial and progress report. This is both for transparency and so…
In several influential European countries, solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people is finally translating into action. Though such action may seem…
Tyrannical regimes from Serbia to the Philippines to Brazil and many other places have been brought down by nonviolent revolts that made…
The era of US-led capitalist globalization seems to be coming to an end. For Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello, itās time…
Elphas Nkosi: It is now four minutes after 12 p.m. Central African time. Welcome to the Monday edition of the News Hour…
Imagine an okay High School Tennis player trying to comment usefully, publicly, on Carlos Alcarazās play. Or imagine a squirrel made suddenly…
One needs only to examine the actions and rhetoric of the Israeli government to fully appreciate the profound significance of the solidarity…
This poem below was inspired by a meeting 6 Sept 2025, #62 of our monthly meetings with friends and supporters. Usually the…
[In what follows my prompts to the AI, ChatGPT, are in Italics. The AIās responses appear in quotation marks. The text in…
How is Trump doing in the polls? Over the last week and a half, averaging polls done by CBS, NBC, The Economist,…
Europeās second-largest economy has plunged into political paralysis again, as the French government has been overthrown by yet another no-confidence vote. This…
If the Western liberal political empire has been shamed beyond repair by the genocide in Palestine and the neoliberal project cannot be…
It has been 26 years since Hugo ChĆ”vez first assumed the presidency of Venezuela in 1999. Since then, Venezuela has gone through…
In his last minutes of freedom before Israeli Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, clad in a medicās white coat,…
Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global SouthBy: Walden BelloClarity Press, 2025 Walden Bello has long been one…
Is it finally happening? Is the West turning against Israel? Or are we, whether motivated by hope or driven by despair, simply…
One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The…
In many countries around the world, mass āpeople powerā revolts have blocked authoritarian takeovers and eliminated dictatorial regimes. This commentary presents four…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a recruitment message on social media this summer saying, āAmerica has been invaded by criminals and predators.…
Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground canāt match. Far from its victims,…
In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has…
In this wide-ranging conversation, political economist Patrick Bond joins me from Johannesburg to trace the lessons of South Africaās struggles ā from…
āIn āCommon Sense,ā Thomas Paine defines common sense as the fundamental ability of all people to reason and discern truth, regardless of…
As summer winds down, kids all over the United States are starting the school year. In addition to the standard back-to-school trepidation,…
This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to…
Intro by Tom Engelhardt: [Note for TomDispatch readers: Back in 2014, Noam Chomsky ā whose voice I miss terribly in this embattled Trumpian…
The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little…
Democrats in the United States hope and pray that when the pain from President Donald Trumpās One Big Beautiful Bill begins to…
The case for the South African government to respect Boycott Divestment Sanctions and āHague Groupā mandates against Glencore/ARM exports and all other…
“People might want us to just shut up and play, turn to look the other way, but we don’t believe that is…
Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war on Ukraine…
[This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in todayās challenging geopolitical and ecological…
As Donald Trump is trying to stamp out everything that might power the world without fossil fuels, a āGreentechā revolution is making…
Artificial Intelligence is very much in the news these days, so I decided to do a critical analysis of one of works…
No Ice Agent or National Guard member headed to Washington DC, no IDF assassin shooting kids who seek food, no media person,…
Donald Trump came into office promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now, six months later, his high stakes…
