The US is facing uncertain times. While it remains the only global superpower, it is no longer able to influence events and…

Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival

Municipal government changes for the better only when progressives have “an outside and inside game…people on the inside and people protesting on the outside to provide insiders with backbone”

Gabriel Thompson has produced one of the most thought-provoking books on organizing and affecting social change that I have read in some time

It is time to develop and support shared left program,

A study shows that the remarkable tendency of unions to support environmental policies and even to take the lead in environmental efforts is not an aberration

There is nothing to celebrate about this

The debate continues on racist remarks, Clinton’s plan to reach out to Sanders supporters, and the decision by the Associated Press and NBC to call the race for Clinton on the eve of the California primary

Where does the race go from here?

In the days following the catastrophic earthquake that struck Ecuador on 16 April, checkout lines at the supermarkets were exceptionally long. Ordinary…

Republicans have created immense obstacles to registration.

The Bernie movement has shown all of us that the time is now for a power to the people movement

Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to…

Talking about the concept of a basic income guarantee also known as a universal income

Electoral campaigns, especially in the US, are being run by the advertising industry

This is a very important campaign and progressive movements are strengthening the campaign and being strengthened by it

In the aftermath of the Memorial Day military parades, a critical task for the coming year is to build a renewed, more vibrant, interracial, and multi-generational peace movement

The ‘Nakba’ is not merely a Palestinian experience; it is also an Arab wound that never ceases from bleeding

U.S. people should earnestly ask how the U.S. could help build trust here in Afghanistan

Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting…

Classism is a form of social discrimination that has its roots in rigged economics

Let’s avoid sterile debate and splintering. Let’s innovate and seek real change.

The response to the Brazilian coup shows that the BRICS powers are not a real alternative to US imperialism

Not only are Palestinians expected to demolish many years of Israeli disinformation but also to construct their own narrative that is free from the whims of factions and personal gains.

Interview on privatization, human rights, media, experience with the EU and capitalism’s ability to reform

The fire our friends wanted to ignite was inside us. With what work can we replace war? If we are no longer training for war, what else could we be doing?

Our post-9/11 military incursions all point to the singular fact that the “War on Terror” has been a “War of Terror”

The action denied the right of the existing powers and principalities – be they corporate or governmental – to use the authority of law to justify their destruction of the earth’s climate

A year ago, two young black men, Andre Thompson and Bryon Chaplin were shot by white police officer, Ryan Donald

Interview on why Brexit is unimportant, why Trump’s climate change denial is catastrophic – and why revolution is easier than you think

Some say it’s good for Israel and Saudi Arabia to bury the hatchet and find common ground. But peace in the Middle East won’t be furthered by the causes they’re collaborating on

Fearing the successes of the Sanders campaign will dissipate has highlighted our need for developing shared program able to sustain lasting organization.…

“If you look over the past, say, the roughly 75 years of my, more or less, consciousness, it’s—in general, I think the arc of history has been bending towards justice”

Despite all attempts at separating the current conflict in Palestine from its larger Arab environs, the two realities can never be delinked since they both go back to the same historical roots

A hapless elite, an angry electorate, and a brash front-runner with little regard for democratic norms: The latest Philippine election sounds a lot like America’s

Review of Fighting For Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working Class Citizenship, by Bob Bussel

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Our guest for the hour, Noam Chomsky,…

Grassroots protesters all over Africa are questioning the logic of export-led ‘growth’ and renewed fiscal austerity, instead demanding that policies meet their basic needs

Does our style of engagement with others contribute to the left’s inattention to developing sustainable effective mechanisms of large scale lasting change?

Criticizing violent political movements and the behavior of any state that violates international law and human rights is a moral duty. Israel will not be the exception

Chevron’s history of social irresponsibility and political-influence buying reveals much about the policy outcomes it could obtain with an old friend in the White House

Snowden, it’s important to recall, performed an enormous service, a patriotic service in fact, to the people of the United States and the world

A look at Fighting For Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working Class Citizenship, by Bob Bussel

Masters of Mankind (Part 2)

Masters of Mankind (Part 1)

Should Sanders bow out or carry on? If Clinton gains the nomination, should Sanders actively support her, hold his nose and urge…

I dreaded that rich, corrupt Palestinians in Ramallah are utilizing the image of Mandela to acquire badly-needed political capital

What if we defined ourselves – to the movement, the public, and the courts – not as criminals but as law-enforcers trying to halt governments and corporations from committing the greatest crime in human history?

We must reject the suggestion that subversion of the democratic process might be needed to save democracy

Negotiations between Greece and international creditors hit an impasse over the bankers’ demands for extra austerity measures