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

If Parecon is determined unworthy or un-implementable, okay – it should be dismissed as a vision and used only as a source of possible partial insights. But if it is both worthy and viable, it should be shared widely as a vision, and, in that capacity, help movements to win a better world

Interview on democracy in Europe, Brexit, and the other part of Plan X

People worldwide should be encouraged not to cooperate with the war makers and war profiteers who masquerade as providers of security

South Carolina’s disastrous flood calls into question both the ridiculousness of neo-liberal economics, but also the terribly scary side to it as well

Students fought back against proposed tuition hikes – and won

A look at the Greek political and economic crisis, how the Greek government including the “leftist” party in charge has acted and reacted, and how social movements are responding

Interview on the presidential primary “extravaganza”

In conversation with Aaron Bastani on Greece and Europe

My first stop, after living for 22 years in a refugee camp in Gaza, was the city of Seattle, a pleasant, green…

Interview on corporate and militarist forces converge to keep the U.S. in a state of perpetual war; and how social movements build deeper interconnectivity to develop a genuine alternative

Esmatullah became the sole income earner for his family after his father was tortured and crippled by the Taliban. Now he teaches literacy

Might we be able to find areas of agreement, clarify areas of disagreement, and work on from there?

The following interview was conducted over Skype between Michael Albert and Michael Galli who teaches a class on media at Rivendell Academy, a 7-12 interstate public school on the Vermont/New Hampshire border, and his students.

Considering flawed assumptions that lead to magical thinking about what the West can do in countries that it bombs

The origins and heritage of participatory economics, the logical basis for its components, peoples’ problems with it, and why people should care about it

On October 3, a US airstrike destroyed a Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing…

When my book ‘Searching Jenin’ was published soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed…

Sanders, Corbyn, Syriza, Podemos – wars, poverty, assassinations, exclusions, occupations, depredations – I have been asked to write an essay that presents…

Much of the organizing in the U.S. is guilty of focusing on short-term outcomes and not thinking about how the work is developing the people who are doing it

The U.S. has “accidentally” bombed weddings and civilian convoys, and then dismissed human casualties as “collateral damage”

But how could a story that is so thoroughly covered and discussed round the clock in so exhaustive a fashion be so far removed from the reality at hand?

Does the US foreign policy shift in relations toward Cuba indicate a change in regional goals, or does it signal new strategy to advance the same old objectives?

The U.S. has long shown itself the most formidable warlord fighting in Afghanistan, setting an example of brute force that frightens

Despite a desperate economic crisis, comparable to Greece’s, we only get an episodic look at what is crushing the nation of Puerto Rico

Entering South Africa this week, stage left, is the celebrated economist Thomas Piketty, whose ideas are already much used and abused

Wondrous technology has become both our friend and our enemy

The spectacular cratering of the Shanghai stock market, which lost nearly 40 per cent of its value in just 10 weeks, is a sign of a much bigger problem: the crisis of the country’s 30-year-old export oriented rapid growth economy

Until journalists and media professionals, through collective effort and after many uphill battles, redeem some respect for their tightly controlled medium, there is no reason whatsoever to celebrate

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

Movement activists discuss strategy and tactics in #BlackLivesMatter

Interview on how the Pope is a powerful voice of the South

Connecting issues and social movements and organizations to each other has the potential to build a powerful movement of movements that is stronger than any of its individual parts

The annual UN heads-of-state summits reconfirms inappropriate targets, processes and evaluation systems

Who is really fighting ISIS?

Regional political changes that could sink the accord

Orwell’s observations on thought control under freedom come to mind in considering the raging debate today about the Iran nuclear deal

In the Philippines, the grandson of a despised collaborator has endorsed the remilitarization of his country’s former occupiers

Interview on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change

The increasing consciousness of the huge inequality of income and wealth in the US is a legacy of Occupy Wall Street