Little Ali is no different from the 490 Palestinians killed in Israel’s last summer war on Gaza, which killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians
While this farce and judicial scandal continue the reputation of Sweden is diminished and the shadow of America’s menace touches us all
But it’s not enough to micromanage parents’ behaviors; we need system-wide change that supports parents to do the hard work of raising children.
The bizarre attempt to have me indicted me on… treason charges, allegedly for conspiring to push Greece out of the Eurozone, reflects something much broader.
The U.S. military doesn’t hesitate to demand sums for continued U.S. military presence in Afghanistan which could instead be dedicated to rebuilding the country
Interview on the tyranny of libertarianism, the need for media democracy, and Latin American resistance to US imperialism
The Eurogroup — which has no legal standing — is anti-democratic, disdainful of the European Commission, which it now commands, and internally fractured. This is what it did to Greece
It is the lack of political prospects, and the smothering of any attempt at freedom and fair economic opportunity, that lead to extremist violence in the first place
When sovereignty loss, due to unsustainable official debt, yields suboptimal policies in already stressed nations, one knows that there is something rotten in the euro’s kingdom
Just in time, hopefully, the leader the world needs on the climate crisis has stepped forward: Pope Francis. What other person known…
Sandra Bland’s killing exposes the impunity of US police more starkly than ever
Activists aggressively confront current injustices. Shouldn’t we also advocate revolutionary changes and develop revolutionary vision to inform our acts?
Major interview for German periodical Utopie: “There will be no successful movement to escape capitalism until there is widespread agreement that there is superior life beyond capitalism”
“Once I picked up a bullhorn, I became a target, and that just showed me how powerful the woman’s, and black woman’s, voice is”
Interview on why there was no need for a nuclear deal.
My disagreement with the way we handled the negotiations after the referendum is essential. And yet, my main goal is to protect the unity of SYRIZA, to support A.Tsipras, and to stand behind E.Takalotos
France’s Le Pen is exploiting the anti-EU, anti-German and anti-capitalist feelings coursing through the continent
How surveillance helps a violent state
US regional policies have not changed in the least, and it is up to the region itself to confront the US militaristic and conflict-driven policies
The last time the United States and Cuba had diplomatic ties, President Dwight Eisenhower was in office
When the harsh reality of the results of this newly found austerity dawns upon society, who in the political scene is going to represent them then?
Anarchism has a whole lot going for it and could well become the main 21st century source of movement inspiration and wisdom in the effort to make our world a much better place
The masters of Europe are defending their agenda of redistributing wealth and power upward
Corruption of the global environment and compulsively frantic destruction of irreplaceable resources is an equally sure, if more delayed, manner of imposing chaos and death on a mass scale
Either a life with dignity or death with honor
Never before has the European Union made a decision that undermines so fundamentally the project of European Integration
Why not a new referendum?
This is not inevitable, a done deal, if we wake up from the long, postmodern coma and reject the myths and deceptions of those who claim to represent us, and fight
The full transcript of the former Greek Finance Minister’s first interview since resigning
One day, Hail Syriza. Next day, Phooey on Syriza. Perhaps more time is required to judge, not to mention more information
As inside look at the negotiations and results….
As politicians congratulate themselves for taking down the Confederate Flag in South Carolina, the real task of dismantling racism falls to activists
A Critique of the July 10th, 2015 Austerity Proposal for Greece from Syriza; There is an Alternative
The Greek proposal is similar to what the European Union proposed last week and that Greek voters overwhelmingly voted no to last Sunday
Based on months of negotiation, my conviction is that the German finance minister wants Greece to be pushed out of the single currency to put the fear of God into the French and have them accept his model of a disciplinarian eurozone
One key aspect of a strategy for a truly mass third party, a mass political alternative, a mass people’s alliance, is the necessity of a significant chunk of the left wing of the Democratic Party breaking from the corporatist/ corporate-influenced wing
Harald Schumann On The Trail – Talking to Yanis Varoufakis
This is far from being a ‘crisis in Islam’, but a political struggle that will, ultimately, define the future of the region for many generations to come
From declining worker protections to violent labor trafficking and ethnic cleansing
Fear trumps hope. But not this time
Multimillion-dollar ad campaigns aim to influence Congressional votes
The Global Minotaur of neoliberal capitalism centred on Wall Street held the world to ransom from 1971 to 2008. Now Europe’s surplus countries are trying to prop up its corpse
Today’s referendum delivered a resounding call for a mutually beneficial agreement between Greece and our European partners
It is when ordinary people, leading ordinary lives, join together to make a statement that change happens
Review of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
It would be fair to assume that Gershon Baskin’s recent article in the Jerusalem Post is not a mere intellectual exercise aimed at finding ‘creative’ solutions to the Israeli occupation of Palestine
Interview on Europe’s “savage response” to the pushback against austerity demands
Sanders has been able to deliver an alternative message to more people than has been the case in many years.
For now, it remains a blessing to work alongside people awake together, even in darkness, working to face burdens with kindness, ready to join with kindred spirits near and far, faces aglow with precious glimmers of a coming day
A look at the prejudice currently in the Dominican Republic, the history of segregation in public spaces, and a special comment on the Charleston shooting.
We rejected the institutions’ 25th June proposals because of a variety of powerful reasons
