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

It will take years before a new power paradigm fully emerges, during which time US clients are likely to seek the protection of more dependable powers

We have a long way to go, and not much time, but if anything can help raise our hopes that it’s not too late, it is the power of social movements to intervene to change the story

What does it mean when candidates simply make things up? How should Black America view Carson’s candidacy?

US foreign policy in the 21st century has little to offer other than massive military power. Indeed, gone are the days when…

The surveillance state is not the default setting of digital technology. The surveillance state is a failure and suppressor of democracy

Native Hawaiians are the last Indigenous population in the U.S. without their own government. But what they want is independence, not legal recognition

​That the Saharawi refugees have been in camps for 40 years is not a natural occurrence

There is a possibility that you have heard of the famed British author, J K Rowling, writer of the popular fantasy series…

A look at what can be expected from a Hillary Clinton foreign policy

When is it right, and when is it not so right, to talk to power — in particular, for example, with Hilary Clinton?

As Israel’s actions become more indefensible, its supporters increasingly subvert decent values … What will the rest of us do?

The new leadership cannot be imposed from above, or achieved after deliberation with ‘moderate’ Arabs, but selected through an organic, grassroots process

Interview on Europe’s inherent democratic deficit and the urgent need to tackle it