Western intervention has aided the growth of groups such as the Islamic State

While tens of thousands of Rohingya are being ethnically cleansed, having their villages torched, forced into concentration camps and some into slavery, Burma is being celebrated by various western and Asian powers as a success story of a military junta-turned democracy

An Untold Story of Race and Retribution

An interview on how education should really work

Why Labor Should Give Sanders Strong Primary Election Support

The hideous slave labor camps of the new “empire of liberty” were a primary source for the wealth and privilege of American society

This is the fifth in a series of interviews concentrating mostly on questions gathered from young folks

Our creditors’ demand for more austerity has nothing to do with concerns about genuine reform or moving Greece onto a sustainable fiscal path

If U.S. military spending was merely returned to 2001 levels, it would free up $213 billion per year for social spending

Palestinians in exile subsist in a nomadic political landscape, as they only belong to a place that has been stolen at gunpoint, yet are forced to exist in places that they cannot see as home for a whole set of reasons

FERC has more to do with fracking than any other federal agency, and much more than any one state

Our jail is the social institutions around us

A Reply to Ian Birchall (and his Trotskyist Comrades)

If you want to meet the best Australians, meet Indigenous men and women who understand this extraordinary country and have fought for the rights of the world’s oldest culture

Union action on climate change has proliferated across the country

Brussels Keynote, May 7, 2015

Assessing the Case of Jeffrey Sterling

It’s a warning shot—not only against whistleblowing, but against basic communication with journalists by government employees

The women involved in Women Cross the DMZ include peace activists, writers, professors, lawyers, gender equality advocates, former diplomats, UN representatives, and humanitarians

An in-depth interview on participatory economics

How do you know when a campaign you are waging is having an impact? When the target of your campaign cancels a regularly scheduled meeting because you are openly organizing to bring a large number of people to it

Activism is present all over the world, in some places it is even knocking on the future’s door

Despite the limited margins of freedom in Palestine, Birzeit roared once more, reflecting a larger trend of courage and fearlessness that began in Gaza, but is echoing in every corner of the West Bank

Discussion on how scientific research at MIT has been affected for the past 50+ years by its relationship with outside funding agencies, in particular the US military

At the ripe old age of 73, Bernie Sanders has decided to rise to the urgency and seriousness of the times by running for President

Interview on the current media landscape

Australia, a nation without enemies, is now spending $28billion a year on the military and war and armaments in order to fulfill a tragic, entirely colonial and obsequious role, now as Washington’s “deputy sheriff” in the Asia-Pacific.

These efforts need to be brought together as part of the building of a broad united front for justice and power, a movement that in addition to protesting atrocities is guided by a sense of hope and a vision of a new day

Generating collective views about aims and methods and embodying the shared commitments in lasting organizations is what can turn riots into sustained resistance and more

Wishful thinking alone will hardly revive the socialist tide in the Arab world

Egypt’s increasingly totalitarian dictatorship is not described that way by the countries that do business with it, even if countries have citizens who have suffered at its hands

Will the current generation of PAP leaders have the courage to bring about what many of them already realize as the key to the renewal of Singapore: the genuine democratization of politics?

AFL-CIO Delays CA. Hospital Vote

Political symbols in South Africa are here today, gone tomorrow, but oppressive political economy endures

Interview on the alternative media, activism and a host of other related issues

“Utopian socialism” can be more scientific than so called “scientific socialism” and that the utopian socialist methodology should be used to inform revolutionary thinking and action in the 21st Century

Beijing is only too happy to offer an alternative to Western-dominated international finance. What’s more surprising is that leading Western economies are signing up

What steps are needed to produce a viable, mutually agreed reform agenda?

While continuing to assist private and public sector workers involved in strikes and contract fights, the Vermont Workers Center plans to do more grassroots organizing around the shortcomings of Vermont Health Connect coverage

We should never lose hope that we can bring about positive change, but actually changing the world for the better requires being aware that whoever sits in the White House come January 2017 is not going to be our friend

Did we lie? Were we lied to? It is more like we were duped into pseudo-reality crafted so proficiently by Israel, and we are finding it extremely difficult to break away from its confines

The creditors are reportedly pressuring the country to restructure its labor market and curtail its pension system; Syriza has instead done the opposite by increasing pension payments to lower-wage workers

America’s media machine has been spreading its own form of propaganda throughout the world, while at the same time refusing to acknowledge its own culpability in international conflicts

Our wealth redistribution was the second worst of major countries after Brazil, and now is much, much, much worse, is the worst major country in the world

Could US hegemony be coming to an end?

How One San Francisco Neighborhood Kept The Forces of Gentrification At Bay

The so-called American Dream and US democracy are in “very serious decline,” as social mobility is among the worst among the richest nations

In conversation with Joseph Stiglitz on the Eurozone Crisis – at the INET – OECD conference, 9 April 2015

In the recent hemispheric meetings, the United States has been completely isolated. It’s a radical change from 10 or 20 years ago

Yesterday was the day one of Norman Bay’s tenure as Chair of FERC