Looking at Palestine from this side of the Atlantic, the Israeli expansion seems to parallel the US experience with the idea of nation-building and progress

In our post-Citizens United era, the nation’s second largest oil producer is now free to spend $1.6 million (or more, if necessary) on direct mail and phone alerts

The Pentagon has announced it will soon start flying bombing missions out of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq as part of an expanded U.S.-led military campaign against militants from the Islamic State

There are many things which need to be done if we are to break the hold of the oil, gas and coal industries over government

Those once intimidated into silence can’t look away now

The problem is broadly Info Glut versus Info Shortage

The editorial board of the New York Times has an Orwellian knack for war

Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease

Imaginary Lines host Chris Spannos interviews Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy

Futile fatalism thrives when people think there is no alternative to capitalist business as usual

On Scottish Independence, Statehood and Power

On Victory and False Victory

Sanders is reaching out to local, state, and national affiliates of the AFL-CIO with an appeal for a labor-backed “political revolution that will get millions of people involved in the political process”

He should probably just stay out of the way

September 21st must energize those sectors of the climate and progressive movement which understand that stronger action is needed

On Tuesday August 26, 2014, more than 50 demonstrators protested outside the Newark, New Jersey, offices of U.S. Senators Robert Menendez and Cory Booker demanding that the legislators stop providing a blank check for Israel’s crimes

Can the BRICS wrest control of the global economy from the United States and Europe, or will their internal contradictions tear them apart?

The movement from below to tackle climate change is gathering pace in South Africa, and elsewhere in the world, in advance of the September 21 mass march against the United Nations

The courts in Haiti’s new dictatorship

For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset, and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying members

Perhaps the ongoing struggle in Ferguson will augment street demonstrations with a kind of grassroots gathering, assessment, and then policy advocacy

Israel’s most recent war on Gaza, starting on July 7, came at a time that political Islam was being routed out in Egypt and criminalized in other Arab countries

Zekerullah yearns for knowledge as well as justice, and he’s willing to sacrifice for both. I want to learn from him.

People keep resisting illegitimate power, even when it feels hope

The task we face is for passionate movements to fight and win changes that improve people’s and prepare the way for further victories

In an article, Caplan writes that, “War between Israel and Palestine” is our “endless, inevitable future”

New institutions, also established by human beings, can generate vastly superior outcomes. Defining and working to attain those new institutions ought to be our economic agenda

Mental Health promotion as social justice activism

Over the past several years, as I’ve watched this inter-ethnic community grow, acts of kindness have been a reliable bulwark against war

Richmond Line-Up Reshuffled for Fall Contest With Chevron

What, ultimately, was the importance of the Africa-US leadership summit at the White House last week?

For Palestinians in Gaza, this is not about mere resistance strategies, but their very survival

US still funding repression

Hitler saw the expansion of the United States and the destruction of the indigenous populations of the Americas as a model

Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. support for Israel; the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS); and the blockade of Gaza

On Gaza, MIT Professor Noam Chomsky says the debate inside the Israeli government is whether to allow “bare survival” or to inflict “misery and starvation”

The Plan to ‘Moderate’ Hamas, Control Gaza

The FERC 25 were willing to risk arrest to try to draw attention to this urgent situation we are in

For Gaza, the norm is a miserable existence under a cruel and destructive siege that Israel administers to permit bare survival but nothing more

The power plant of the death, destruction, and generalized deprivation is our basic institutions. The institutions must become our target

Interview on the long history of Israel’s decades-long, disciplined destruction of Gaza and of Palestinian society

People and some politicians of Richmond, in California, U.S, have made life hard for Chevron

Noam Chomsky on Israel’s Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation

1979. The shocking state of Cambodia after Pol Pot’s murderous regime.

The Western Sahara has suffered from colonial occupation and today it is reminiscent of that faced by Palestinians

Hiroshima Day 2014

Talking With Hamas

Gaza’s New Resistance Paradigm

A war that could be avoided by ending an illegal occupation and an illegal blockade cannot be a just war

This talk describes the direction of Israel’s – and the West’s – politics on Gaza and Palestine more generally