Thinking about Sanders, race, and us…

BDS has, thus far, been the most successful strategy and tactic to support Palestinian Resistance

A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex

It should not be a personal or movement principle never to support someone running on the Democratic Party line

The rise of Trumpism and the Republican candidates’ competition to be the most extremist and racist reflects deep-seated “perceptions of loss and fear” among many Americans

We cannot win without trying to really win, even if we have to do it skeptically, knowing at times that a project is a long shot

What the movie clarifies is that more often than not the basis for silence prevailing was obedience easily as much as fear or greed

Interview on his new book, Because We Say So, as well as the closing of Guantanamo Bay and the security state

The terror that followed has few parallels; not even Pol Pot succeeded in killing, proportionally, as many Cambodians as Suharto and his fellow generals killed in East Timor

Bernie Sanders has the “best policies”, but little chance of winning in a “mainly bought” election

I find myself unable to discern the logic and motives of many essays about the election…

Interview on Corporate Media, their institutional role and which interests they serve in society

Bernie Sanders is a boon to progressive politics. But we need a movement that rebuilds the networks and organizations of the Left

Albert interviews Early and Wilson on impressions of and involvement with the Sanders campaign.

Those who are anticipating the supposed liberal democratic forces in Israel to rise against the destructive rightwing machine should reconsider

“Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized, and excluded”

Subsidized white capitalists and oppressed activists are amongst those who must “not be named”

​The U.S. has announced funding for a new Plan Colombia as the country moves towards a resolution to its civil war. What is its real purpose?

The conceit that it’s possible to defend press freedom while turning a cold shoulder to whistleblowers is short-sighted

Noam Chomsky talks about the gladiatorial spectacle before us, re-lives his early love affair with baseball, talks about the phenomena of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, and his Super Bowl pick

On what logic should we base our attitude to the Sanders campaign? And once our attitude is clear, what should we do about it?

The Assange case is rooted across the Atlantic in Pentagon-dominated Washington, obsessed with pursuing and prosecuting whistleblowers,

What all of these former hunger strikers seem to have in common is their concern with the freedom of an entire group of desperate, oppressed and outraged people

The Bernie campaign could be a watershed for progressive organizing through the rest of this decade and beyond. That will largely depend on what activists do — in the next weeks, months and years

This program that was agreed to in August was designed to fail

Antiwar sentiment may mostly have evaporated, but war is as horrible as ever

Is any European democrat happy with the situation in which all important decisions are taken in complete darkness and secrecy?

Brazil, Russia, India and China quietly step on African heads to get more IMF voting power, as one instance of the anti-Western rhetorical charade

Dealing with finance capital yesterday and tomorrow

There are the beginnings of signs that all of this pressure may be causing small cracks in FERC’s rigid unwillingness to serve the public interest

Elite media often blur distinctions between right-wing populism and progressive populism

Interview on why he is launching a pan-European movement for democracy, to save Europe before it’s too late

Interview on his public spat with the Turkish president, the war against ISIL and Russia’s annexation of Crimea

A labor climate program can draw together workers, unions, and allies around protecting jobs by protecting the climate

Interview on Europe’s migration and refugee crisis and other current European developments, including the ongoing financial crisis in Greece

One by-product of the Sanders-Clinton contest is a bulging “Bernie bookshelf.”

Last week it was announced that Immigration officials had spent $400,000 on medals which they will award their heroic selves

In his last year in office, Obama should push Morocco to respect Saharawi self-determination

People are very atomized and isolated. There’s very little in the way of any kind of organization

Donald Trump’s championing of the “anti-vaxer” cause takes advantage of scientific illiteracy

We can work to ensure that the future of Venezuela is in Venezuelan hands

The Chinese financial meltdown is another instance of the system’s core contradictions, but one potentially big enough to pull it all down

Actions in more than a dozen countries from the US to Turkey and from South Africa to Australia will “shut down the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects and support the most ambitious climate solutions”

Is South Africa finally maturing to the point that the economic – not just political – compromises of the 1990s democratic transition can be reconsidered?

The U.S. invests billions in “intelligence” yet young Afghans provide more useful information about the majority of Afghans

People now fighting economic injustice have no right to decide how future people should live

2016 will see the start of a promotion / recruitment drive for a new UK based pressure group named, What About Classism?

Age discrimination is certainly nothing that social justice activists had to worry about in liberal and progressive sectors, right?

A starting point would be a unified leadership in the Occupied Territories that manages the Intifada outside the confines of factions

The biggest blowback from U.S. policies abroad has been the erosion of the country’s democratic processes