If Kagame can’t shake off the stench of crimes against humanity, he may find himself becoming another one of the West’s dispensable dictators
The time has not been more ripe for a Marxist regroupment here and globally for at least a quarter century
Sterling was one of the CIA’s few African-American case officers, and he became the first to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency
The latest chapter in the superpower collision is Washington’s strategy of holding low altitude aircraft passes on spots in the South China Sea where China is building military structures over reclaimed land
Just as the civil rights movement seized on the horror of the Alabama church bombing to galvanize change, so must we ensure that the Charleston terrorist attack is the last of its kind
Isn’t our task not to castigate those who are stepping up to work on the campaign and who don’t have exact norms we might prefer, but to instead be happy about their energy and desire and contribute however we can on behalf of those preferred norms?
The pressing question our Irish friends must answer is this: is it more likely that the euro zone will become a better union to belong to if Greece is thrown to the wolves, despite the type of proposals tabled at Thursday’s eurogroup meeting?
As far as the white supremacists are concerned, those murdered in Charleston are not worshiping the same Creator of All Things as are the white supremacists
After so much disinformation on my presentation at the Eurogroup of the Greek government’s position, the only response is to post the precise words uttered within. Read them and judge for yourselves
The Assange case amplifies many truths, and one is the growing, global totalitarianism of Washington, regardless of who is elected president
Upward gazing can be politically blinding
Maybe we can agree that a cultural community ought to allow exit and entry as a quite minimal condition of having healthy cultural and community relations
Winning Hearts And Minds For Labor in Hoosier-Land
While Iran is sustaining several fronts in its current role in the Middle East great game, it hopes to translate its palpable regional ascendency into political capital
It’s a good time to be alive and active; the movements are rising
A new project called World Institute for Social Change, or WISC, an online school
Only when people start thinking of Palestinians as human beings deserving of rights will a just resolution of the conflict with equal rights for everyone be possible
The fighting in Yemen is not just destroying the fabric of that nation; it has broader implications for the region
Our priority, of course, should be to aid changing the world for the better
Understanding that we can be socialized into adopting an ideological position that is detrimental to our own interests is an important step towards the development of revolutionary consciousness
What would a climate insurgency look like?
To question the term “Middle East” is to become conscious of the colonial history
Winning Hearts And Minds For Labor in Hoosier-Land
It has been 67 years since the occupation of 78% of Palestine in 1948
Our own education, our own victory over fear, and our own arrival as equals in an adult world, can begin or begin again – no
There is great urgency in advancing a large-scale discussion of the fight for democracy and progressive power in the US
There is overwhelming support among Americans for greater controls over information being collected on them
Will there be a capable and savvy Palestinian leadership that knows how to take advantage of this global shift and utilize it to the fullest extent for the benefit of the Palestinian people?
Congress had just created “sweeping new authorities for the government to conduct unconstitutional mass surveillance of Americans.”
The neo-liberal nightmare is not in a distant future; it is here, and only getting worse
If you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007
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
