The path out of war seems to involve creating peace where we can, in earnest community with people whose basic needs aren’t met

The country’s surface-level political drama should not distract from deeper fissures

Independent of any particular Presidential campaigns, there are critical, issue-based, national mass movements that are visible, have deep roots and are winning victories

There are structural impediments to women taking their rightful place as citizens in the United States

When I was a little boy, I used to dream of being reborn outside the hardship of the Refugee Camp in Gaza,…

The world the diplomats inhabit couldn’t be farther removed from the places where the impacts of continuing climate chaos are felt the most

Popular outrage in Afghanistan sees the Islamic State avoiding responsibility for beheadings

The U.S. involvement in the Yemen crisis can be summed up in four words: allegiance to Saudi Arabia

Here in Kabul, young friends with the Afghan Peace Volunteers look forward to learning more about “The Tea Project”

Extreme philanthropy is not the answer to extreme inequality

The neo-conservatives should never be allowed access to the Middle East discourse, and their visions, those of doom and destruction, should remain confined to their ever mushrooming think tanks

Saudi Arabia’s involvement in Yemen has only destroyed lives and created a state of total chaos, and the U.S. government is complicit in the carnage

How does the Bolivarian revolution come back from its recent electoral loss?

A resurgent and irrational Right always plays the race card

“Resistance is insisting on living and thriving, despite the pain”

Will Beijing amplify the neo-colonial patterns of extractive looting paved by Western capital?

Is there a grassroots-activist antidote to last week’s attacks by carbon-addicted UN negotiators?

Reignition of civil war is a possibility

Interview on the presidential primary “extravaganza” and the movement for Bernie Sanders

If you want to end it, the first question you ask is: why did it take place? What were the immediate causes and what were the deeper roots? And then you try to address those

Palestinians speak angrily of an Israel siege on Gaza, a reality that cannot be countered by all the official Israeli hasbara and media distortions

“If we care about people we cannot choose war”

When failures occur, progress requires taking responsibility for what one could have done differently and then making changes

Here is a condensed version of President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, unofficially translated into plain English

Climate change, the biggest threat to the planet, appears to be amplifying, as the “financialization of nature” through carbon markets resumes in earnest

The Maduro government and the Bolivarian revolution currently do have a few things that make the situation not quite as bleak as one might otherwise think

How do we wisely evaluate left campaigns – and what about Sanders?

Finally, but by no means least, he is doing a good job of rolling out more specific policy proposals whose content, by and large, is consistently progressive

Talk at Forum at The Evergreen State College

Why do you think that the US should continue to make major contributions to global terrorism, under the guise of a “war on terror”?

On the relation between academic freedom and policy making in the corridors of (European) power

The Intifada operates as a collective spirit that can neither be intimidated by violence nor procured by funds

Interview on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are “never far below the surface”

Why does APEC survive after failing to become a free trade area? Is it that big powers find it useful to recruit allies for rival visions?

Are fair elections too hard for the international community to manage?

Not only did the Americans destroy the central piece of our civilizational and collective experience that spanned millennia, it took pleasure in degrading us in the process

Could Beijing adopt an anti-imperial currency policy – or next week, will it become a tighter sub-imperial ally of Western financiers?

Interview that looks through the complexities to the essentials on the current situation in Venezuela

Recent news threatens to fragment our attention and make us numb. But we can refuse to get scattered and helpless

Interview on the economics of war, terror and refugees

How did Venezuela get into this difficult economic situation? What happened since Hugo Chavez’s death? Did the project derail, get stuck, hit a speed bump, or crash altogether?

“From the very beginning I kept thinking, Young people please! Take all this to heart. This is not just fiction. I keep…

Socialism goes mainstream, but what is socialism and why care?

The most recent elections have been, by far, the most successful of the generals’ democracy schemes in recent years

While the U.S. Defense Secretary chides China for engaging in land reclamation in the South China Sea, the U.S. presses Japan to abandon its pacifist constitution

“And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change…

Go students! Go activists! Go and never stop!

ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington, London and Paris who, in conspiring to destroy Iraq, Syria and Libya, committed an epic crime against humanity

Spain has struck down its case against Rwanda and the doctrine that once kept war criminals awake at night

Words may not be violent, but they exhaust us and help internalize our oppression. Fight back with solidarity