Interview on Russia, the US media, and the stories told to justify American militarism

Is the US government really accepting Cuba as a sovereign nation that has chosen a different path? Or is it simply trying to overthrow the Cuban government by different means?

In January of this year, protests erupted in Kinshasa, the capital of the DR Congo, against President Joseph Kabila

The Syrian conflict has introduced great polarization within a community that once seemed united for Palestinian rights

I’m hard-pressed to see how this can possibly benefit an area’s economy, that is if its “economy” is understood to include all the area’s people, and not just the wealthiest who can influence prison placement

That act culminated ten years of terrorist atrocities in Central America. The decade began with the murder of Archbishop Romero, it ended with the murder of the six Jesuit intellectuals

AFSCME rank-and-filers are campaigning, with student and community allies, for a different kind of “CBA”

To suggest that the United States policies in Yemen was a ‘failure’ is an understatement. It implies that the US had at least attempted to succeed

Noam Chomsky is interviewed by a very prominent physicist on a variety of topics

The odd situation that gargantuan operations make it look like “free” is sensible – Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. You don’t pay for them, or don’t think you pay, anyhow – so why pay for anything else – especially coming from the left?

A Review of “Social Justice in Clinical Practice”

It’s a kind of stupidity that’s entirely rational within the framework within which it operates: but the framework itself ranges from grotesque to virtual insanity

Menendez not only plays loose with favors for Dr. Melgen; he plays loose with issues of war and peace. The people of New Jersey, and the rest of the country, deserve better

The design of these institutions can either create a class system within the economy or it can create classlessness

Spring brings with it major mobilizations of people into the streets for mass demonstrations around war and peace, justice, climate or other issues

Movements could fight for a shorter workday and work week as a valuable aid

Poor treatment of the workers who pick our produce is no accident. It is a predictable outcome of a system designed to have a bottleneck controlled by fewer and fewer corporations

How could we have a totally seamless relationship with the non-university public, in which the university becomes a source of knowledge and not a place where knowledge is locked up to be accessed only by those who pay to be within its walls?

“…we need to give people hope that there is a purpose to the mobilisation”

Using an imagined Arab threat as a fearmongering tactic is an Israeli political staple

In an administrative world view, then, closing down an english department or a math department and allocating those resources to a parking lot is a perfectly rational thing to do

How Crude-By-Rail Puts U.S. Communities At Risk

Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian

We cannot forget that the hideous slave labor camps of the new “empire of liberty” were a primary source for the wealth and privilege of American society

There is no question that while the battle is raging on in the Middle East region, the discourse itself is growingly being manipulated and is becoming a western one

March 19 marks two gloomy anniversaries: the 12th anniversary of US invasion of Iraq and the 5th anniversary of the NATO intervention in Libya

What we let our state impose on those walled beyond our borders we will tend to inflict on more and more people walled up within them

American fingerprints are all over a botched commando raid in the southern Philippines that left dozens dead and shocked the country

What do writers write? And in particular, what do left, progressive, and revolutionary writers write?

Dare to make it happen, even in the face of uncertainty

Intersectionality missing-in-action at Cape Town’s Alternative Mining Indaba

10 Reasons Why

My dream is that Gaza would have an independent health care system that would be run by Gaza that wouldn’t be dependent on foreign aid, not dependent allowing supplies in through the occupier

The state of free speech in America today, Obama’s U.S. foreign policy, Israel and the rise of anti-semitism and more

Discussions about social policies and choices are often considerably confused by a mismatch of context

Whether an individual officer is white or black, he or she views young whites and blacks differently because the latter “look like so many others the officer has locked up”

Cubans and Americans alike are delighted with the opening

The issue of FERC is more than an issue for communities impacted by their decisions. It is a basic social justice issue, an issue of corruption of democracy

If people assume they have the right to privacy and join the free software movement, it is better for everyone

Interview on a variety of topics

Raul Castro is trying to find a middle way, stimulating the economy while preserving revolutionary gains like free healthcare and education

A raid to “neutralize” an international terrorist that went awry has severely discredited the administration of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

AIPAC’s support of the Israeli prime minister over the US president is turning AIPAC into a Republican-biased lobby that could hopefully prove fatal to its future influence in Washington

Like the fascism of the 1930s and 1940s, big lies are delivered with the precision of a metronome: thanks to an omnipresent, repetitive media and its virulent censorship by omission

In its zeal to prosecute Sterling for allegedly leaking classified information about Operation Merlin, the U.S. government has damaged its own standing with the IAEA

Greek finance minister insists deal with troika has not compromised his leftist principles

The home is where we live our lives. Unfortunately, it is also a key place where we have to fight for our lives. It’s one of the fronts in the class war, and you can join the fight

Winning should mean establishing new institutions able to accomplish necessary tasks of society

Wouldn’t this campaign be better served if we worked together in a planned way to draw in and skillfully deploy even more forces?

As drone warfare proliferates, as the stings of the drone become more lethal and terrifying, the peace activists hold a newsworthy message