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

The outcome of the ill-fated ‘Arab Spring’ was a massive letdown, if not betrayal, not just of Palestinians but of most Arabs

Interview on the refugee crisis in Europe, and so-called hot spots that are registration centers for refugees in his country

One concrete outcome that President Obama could pursue on his visit to Saudi Arabia is saving the lives of three Shia youth sentenced to be executed

Abbas’ statement on life and death does not, in the least, address the context of oppression, the humiliation of military occupation and the prevailing sense of despair

The Sanders movement has shown that there is a massive constituency for unapologetic, strongly progressive politics

What is now needed are articles and talks and whatever else that seek to arrive at shared program, vision, organizational wisdom and commitments, and tactical insights

Perhaps these explosive uprisings ought to be seen as a natural expression of the mass frustration people feel about their increased subservience to corporate power and political elites

We face a potential right-wing populist threat

Review of This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping The Twenty-First Century, by Mark and Paul Engler

The danger of impunity is not merely the lack of legal accountability, but the fact that it is the very foundation of most violent crimes against humanity, including genocide

The European Union is disintegrating – but leaving is not the answer

Looking into the future, the benefits of attaining inspiring program will make each new hour applied to seeking change far more effective

It is as if the enduring existence of a people who have survived and resisted more than two colonial centuries of massacre and theft remains a spectre on white Australia

Interview on the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighboring states as well as the European continent

Fear is a driving force in the USA and the fear of terrorism obscures so much of what is really at stake in matters of foreign policy

A wedge is being quickly driven through Pretoria’s political elite

BDS has, thus far, been the most successful strategy and tactic to support Palestinian steadfastness while, at the same time, holding Israel accountable

The 2016 US presidential election is shaping up to be a fascinating contest between reactionaries (Donald Trump and Ted Cruz), pro-establishment figures…

We should establish a pan-European coalition of radical, social, green, and liberal democrats to put the “demos” back into democracy

The current Intifada is an expression of a generation that is so eager to break free, to define itself, to liberate its land, yet resisted by an Old Guard

Interview on manufacturing consent and the hypocrisy of US foreign policy

The Great Depression was objectively much worse than today, much more severe. Subjectively, it was much better. It was a period of hopefulness

Without campaign finance reform of the sort advocated by Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein in their current presidential campaigns, there’ll be no last hurrah for big money in politics

John Pilger returns to the West Bank

There is a need, a compulsion, for many liberals in the United States to embrace a leader from within a system that is demonstrably imperial and violent

The grassroots and activist wing of the climate movement should reflect upon the tactics used by the draft resistance movement, particularly the “ultra resistance” movement

Two-hour panel discussion, which was organized by the Center for Democracy and Technology

After two decades of progressive governments spreading by the region with unprecedented economic, political and social gains, especially in human rights year…

Only a united Syria can offer hope for the future. Nothing else does

Where is the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world?

In the U.S., I think the two mainstream parties are actually two branches of one corporate party. Likewise, I think our electoral…