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

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