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

Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives

The hour and a half session addresses a wide range of matters, economics, theory, social arrangements, personal relations of struggle, and of course, Syriza’s future and prospects

Interview on the roots of ISIS and why the United States and its allies are responsible for the group’s emergence

The PKK is the only revolutionary force that you can encounter in Kurdistan and maybe in the whole region

Some will chastise Hamas’s new strategy, others will praise its return to common sense. But for Hamas and Palestinian resistance in Gaza, it is a mere matter of survival

You have two choices: you can decide to be pessimistic and say there’s no hope and abandon all efforts – in which case you contribute to ensuring that the worst will happen; or you can grasp whatever hopes there are – and they’re always there – and try to do what you can

This long-term slide toward asymmetrical depression and monetary disintegration puts radicals in a terrible dilemma

Why do our cumulative efforts collectively harp so overwhelmingly on repeating why and how things are bad and give so little attention to what we should desire and how we should achieve it?

The Germans need not trust the Greeks, but should listen to them, says Yanis Varoufakis

The question remains: how long will it be before Cairo understands that violence cannot resolve what are fundamentality political and socio-economic problems?

The trial of Jeffrey Sterling shook loose more serious questions about Operation Merlin than it laid to rest. The last big shoe in this real-life saga has yet to drop

Noam Chomsky speaks on a variety of topics.

To offer up the pro-Israel myth as if it were undisputed fact is simply propaganda

An anti-war movement worthy of its name must be fighting for a more comprehensive shift, a shift in the direction of a democratic foreign policy rather than the foreign policy of the bully

We aren’t a “sick” society. It is too tame an adjective

When artists say file-sharing is reducing their “value” as artists, they are helping make the persecution of file-sharing politically acceptable

Don’t let the refugee become who you are, as you are so much more

The new US-Cuba talks are a refreshing burst of sunshine in the 54-year dismal relationship between neighbors separated by a mere 90 miles

I think Syriza can bring the world something profoundly important

A Muddle, a Meltdown or a Miracle?

The mass media have suddenly discovered Jeffrey Sterling — after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower

When the marketplace dissects, compartmentalizes, criticizes and oh-so-helpfully attempts to reconstruct our body parts, it’s not because it treasures them. It’s because it’s trying to make money off of them

The case of United States of America v. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling has everything to do with politics and the CIA’s reputation

The real threat is the repression of migrant communities by national security states with the backing of a significant segment of the majority population mobilized by right wing forces

If I were a young black male, the U.S. penal system quite likely would not have allowed me to turn myself in to a federal prison camp

Based on the evidence, it would be delusional to think of the CIA as a place run by straight shooters

As Bush’s notorious legacy has proven, while war-induced fear and vain patriotism may keep a leader in office long enough, the terrible consequences of unchecked violence shall be felt for many years to come

Why the differences and what do the differences tell us?

Contrary to the eloquent pronouncements, it is not the case that “Terrorism is terrorism. There’s no two ways about it.” There definitely are two ways about it: theirs versus ours

“A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, ‘This way of settling differences is not just’”

What follows is a first sketch of a campaign proposal that is designed to bring to an end a form of discrimination referred to here as institutionalised classism

Raif Badawi was sentenced by a Saudi court to 1,000 floggings, as well as ten years in prison and a fine of $266,000. Badawi’s crime? Blogging.

Condoleezza Rice made headlines when she testified Thursday at the leak trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling

Scapegoating Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling

It is still not about Islam, even if the media and militants attacking western targets say so

2015 might be a turning point year, but it definitely won’t be if we don’t rise to the occasion

Revulsion is justified, as is the search for deeper roots, as long as we keep some principles firmly in mind.