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

The Thai military marked its second month in power by unilaterally imposing the power to issue decrees to “preserve public peace and order”

Almost every day brings news of awful crimes, but some are so heinous, so horrendous and malicious, that they dwarf all else.…

Even as I cry for Palestine’s pain and hope they prevail, part of me also wonders, when the dust clears, what the hell are the Israelis who are urging incinerating Palestine and Palestinians going to tell themselves so they can live with themselves?

As the U.S. cobbles together justifications for its ongoing, foolhardy war in Afghanistan, glimmers of hope persist in small communities

It is not just an Israeli war on Gaza

Some movement activists believe that whatever has been, had to be

If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine

If there was a crime being committed on Norwell Street, that was it — the systematic theft of wealth from those who have not very much to those who have an obscene share of it

In this context, critics are forcing open two crucial debates: first, is BRICS anti-imperialist as advertised, potentially inter-imperialist as the Ukraine battleground portends, or merely sub-imperialist where it counts most: in the ongoing global financial and climate meltdowns?

This is part six of a six part interview. It deals mainly with the IOPS experience, Venezuela, alternative media, and some music lyrics

One of the pervasive problems of the U.S. left, and I would wager around the world, is fragmentation. One of the abiding strengths of the U.S. left, and I suspect around the world, is diversity. How do we reduce the former without losing the latter?

Noam Chomsky responds to Yousef Munayyer, MJ Rosenberg, Nadia Ben-Youssef, Ran Greenstein and the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel

Israel is a part of the West. Its economy and politics are fully integrated with the West. It simply cannot do this without support from the US, Canada, and Europe

The resistance movement in Gaza is often misrepresented intentionally at times, and at other times innocuously. In the heat of the information battle that has ensued since Israel unleashed its latest war many facts and essential context have gone missing

This is part five of a six part interview. It deals mainly with the IOPS experience

Interview on a variety of topics

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things.  That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be…

A look at the different world views that can divide people

Interview on the current situation in Gaza

The entire episode, particularly after its grim ending, seemed to traumatize Israelis into ignoring harsh truths about the settlers and the militarization of their society

The U.S. government now has the kind of surveillance powers formerly attributed only to a supreme being

This is part four of a six part interview. It deals mostly with issues of vision and strategy and their role in winning change

As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular

Why aren’t there 50,000 members and a 100 or so chapters?

Inteview on a variety of topics

Richard Perle’s statements in an interview were yet another testament to the intellectual degeneration of a group that had once promised a ‘new Middle East’, only to destabilize the region with violent consequences that continue to reverberate until this day

The U.S.’s sledgehammer worldview is destroying countless lives and future generations

Delegates to Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM) conference at the end of June voted unanimously to endorse and participate in the historic People’s Climate March set for Sunday, September 21, 2014 in Manhattan

This is part three of a five part interview. It deals mainly with participatory economics, what it is, and its merits or debits

The California City With A “Sister Country” And Its Own Lawsuit against Chevron

Interviewing Greenwald. In Orwell’s world, “nobody actually knew whether they were being watched at all times. In fact they didn’t know if they were ever being watched”

I always have contradictory feelings about July 4th

I mean by the word revolution, instead, a change in defining institutions in either of four key spheres of social life: economy, polity, culture, or gender/kinship.

ROAR interview exploring the idea of participatory economics

Stop Another US Military Intervention in Iraq

Those who are sincerely dedicated to the Palestinian cause should avoid illusion and myth, and think carefully about the tactics they choose and the course they follow

This is part two of a five part interview. It mainly deals with attitudes to some political perspectives and a possible alternative

Ramadan was an exacting platform through which poverty and deprivation were devalued so that when Ramadan was over, we felt grateful for the little we had, before we resumed our struggle for the rights and freedoms we truly deserved

“We substitute teachers like to think of ourselves as the marines of the public education system. Whenever a breach opens in our nation’s educational front lines, off we go: The few, the brave, the stupid.”

How Washington protects itself and the corporate sector

Paulo: Michael… First and foremost, what, in your opinion, a revolutionary?

Al Gore seems to be coming down firmly against all fossil fuels, not just coal and oil

Interview on working-class resistance during the Industrial Revolution, propaganda, and the historical role played by intellectuals in times of war