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As Kermit the Frog, America’s most famous Muppet, says: “it’s not easy being green.” Preliminary results of the Green Party’s latest national…
A misogynistic, racist, narcissistic, profit maximizing capitalist slug – but not a moron – is now President of the United States. The…
Right-wing populism has grown as a result of both the ravages brought on by neo-liberal globalization as well as the demographic and political changes within the USA
Only with eyes wide open do we have a real chance to understand clearly and organize effectively against the Trump regime. Failure to put up a fight should be unthinkable
At this sad, difficult, upsetting, angering time, we need to deepen our powers of resilience and help others do the same
The activism of the last couple of decades is all there somewhere. It just has to be organized
Interview on everything from Donald Trump to the role of artists, social resistance, and economic stagnation
Participatory economics, or parecon, describes the core institutions required to generate solidarity, equity, self-management, and an ecologically sound and classless economy
The ongoing prolific protests by opposition parties, university students, communities and labour, remains on the horizon as the political dust refuses to settle
Palestinians will continue to resist, as long as the reasons that inspired their rebellion nearly a century ago, remain in place
As someone who has made the deepening climate crisis my primary work for the last 13 years, I know that Trump is a huge threat to the planet and all its life forms
“Small differences [coupled with] great power can have enormous consequences.”
What exactly is Duterte up to and why are the Philippines’ neighbors so alarmed?
With the recent insertion of Russian military power into Syria and the continued use of American air power in the region, the situation in Syria has gotten tenser than ever
In my career as a journalist and film-maker, I have never known propaganda to insinuate our lives and as it does now and to go unchallenged
Interview on the global plans that the United States drew before the end of the World War II and how it proceeded to implement them
Interview on what an objective observer from out of space would see
What is the actual role of education and its link to democracy, to decent human relations and to a decent society?
Two and a half weeks before the big election, it’s looking good, though not a lock, for Clinton to defeat Trump, which…
There is no choice but to escalate today’s campaigns against global fossil fuel infrastructure
Trump’s significant support by whites, and especially by white workers, and his easily winning the Republican nomination for President needs to be understood
In June, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wound up his presidential primary campaign by urging his supporters to run for office themselves. About…
Regardless of how the war ends, Syria has been destroyed and its future is bloody and bleak
A broad discussion of media, war, activism, the Mideast and more…
With men at the BRICS helm like Serra and his president Michel Temer (who is also corrupt and widely despised), so too has the bloc become damaged goods
Just about one year ago, on October 16th, 2015, in Keene, New Hampshire, at a public town hall meeting attended by hundreds,…
It seems that the stronger Israel becomes, the larger in size and more destructive in its military capabilities, the weaker and more threatened it perceives itself
Few policies and programs designed to promote economic recovery and social reform have attracted as much attention as those associated with President…
If you vote Stein in a contested state, and Trump wins that state, and wins the election, do you think the Green Party would even survive that? Would you survive that?
Interview about the time period before World War II and what perceptions the United States maintained during it
The Black electorate needs to think far beyond November 8—and to lead the progressive electoral movement
Students and student movements have played a major role in struggles for reform and revolution in the United States and around the world
The top priority for the Left in the November elections is to make sure that Trump is defeated and the dangerous movement which he has advanced is set back
This talk was the second presentation in Massachusetts Peace Action’s Distinguished Peacebuilders Series
As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the…
Noam Chomsky Chicago’s at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, hosted by Haymarket Books and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
Several left arguments on the U.S. election frankly leave me baffled.
If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.
The Clean Energy Future will provide many new jobs for each that is lost. There will, however, be fewer jobs in coal, oil, and gas extraction and burning and in nuclear energy.
American intervention was one factor leading to the Chilean coup—but unrest on the part of middle-class Chileans was another
Marxologists typically do all their quoting not caring that it makes normal people want to run and hide due to anticipating they will hear regurgitated unexplained old fashioned jargon
The best way to honor these children is by understanding that the future of Syria’s children cannot be determined according to the whims of American and Russian politicians
The world needs to adopt alternative energy systems as quickly as possible. And finally, it is crucial to explore technologies to assist us in reversing climate change — as time is running out
In sharp contrast to the AFL-CIO’s top echelon, some unions really want to restrain climate change and are now vocally opposing the Dakota pipeline
Saudi’s intervention in Yemen is an extension of this hatred of Iran. The Saudis are worried that the Houthis, who rose up in Yemen, are close to Iran
The United States made a major effort to monopolize the basic resource for the early industrial revolution, namely cotton
Well into the 21st century, the Native American-Palestinian struggle remains one and the same
To proclaim “I am right,” no matter which side of this dispute one is on, while ignoring the substance that is at stake and while hurling non sequitur attacks at those you disagree with, will achieve nothing positive
Anybody who is talking to the Iranian government about anything should impress upon them the need to immediately free Homa Hoodfar
I hope that policy makers will let themselves be guided by sanity and the courage to clarify the U.S.’ vast potential to make a positive difference in our world
