It took supportive city leadership and nearly a decade of institutional change to get this far

Movements and uprisings, such as that in Burkina Faso, do not appear out of thin air.

“If we burn, you burn with us”

We need more effort going to motivating belief in the efficacy of overcoming our problems with positive gains

A review of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein

This piece is adapted from Uprisings, a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to US Empire

Neoliberal policies that have reigned since the 1980s

Raising a child in a moral way is not just up to parents, its up to society

The talk about resetting President Obama’s security team is misplaced; we should be focusing instead on resetting his bellicose policies

How do we conduct activism seeking limited gains and given the personalities and means we have, yet in ways that lead toward transformation?

Interview with Gregory Wilpert, Director of teleSUR English

Is it possible to create system that does not exploit people or the planet?

If we say that you are a terrorist, you are

Ta-da, there it is: Palestinian history for dummies

There are numerous, obvious solutions to problems in Afghanistan which NATO countries could consider

A best-case scenario would be that a popular mass movement arose worldwide which not just forced an end to the fossil fuel era but went on to transform human society

The peace talks need to be accompanied by peaceful behavior

For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state

RE/MAX Israel sells properties that are not only in Israel proper, but are also in occupied Palestinian lands of the West Bank

Would a good economy encourage good technological development?

Arab Media on the Brink

How did Russia and the West slip back into what seems like the Cold War all over again?

We know what time it is—there is little time left—and we are the leaders we have been waiting for

The critical change will be in how we determine what technologies are worth pursuing and implementing

The world has never been closer to a nuclear war that could wipe out all of its initiators

Here are a few quick thoughts on the November 4th election. (1) There is almost always a low turnout during a midterm election…

Israel’s decision to shut down al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, 30 October, is a gross violation of the religious rights of Palestinian Muslims

Big Oil’s “Air War” Fails To Sink Richmond Progressives

The destabilization efforts were noteworthy for the manner in which the mainstream, elite media was used to paint a picture

To this we may add the world’s greatest terrorist campaign: Obama’s global project of assassination of “terrorists”

The contradictions of Hawaii’s healthcare system and the struggles of its workers

Prospects and continuing horrors

There are a number of theories why war guilt has not taken hold in Japan

Egypt’s convenient war

How would science be different under a different economic system?

Interview on Ferguson, the militarization of police, US education, Obama versus the neo-cons and more

The biggest credibility crisis ever to hit South Africa’s independent media is unfolding

The achievements of those who have struggled for centuries for greater freedom and justice leave a legacy that can be taken up and carried forward

The only obstacle to Kaiser’s divide-and-conquer plan is the continuing resistance of Local 5 rank-and-filers in Hawaii, 4,000 like-minded Kaiser workers in California represented by NUHW, and hopefully the 18,000 Kaiser members of the CNA

A parallel personal motive for science is benefit not from the implications of the knowledge itself, but instead from remuneration offered for scientific labors or achievements

Young’s appearance showcased his own re-incarnation as a skilled, if not uncontroversial, friend of private enterprise

Part Two on Science and the Left – society’s role.

Intellectual self-defense could be used to inform a new type of psychological intervention for mental health promotion

The “Whitlam problem” was solved, and Australian politics never recovered, nor the nation its true independence.

Congress, thankfully, did give the Pentagon a deadline to get itself in better financial shape — 25 years ago

Britain’s moral responsibility towards the Palestinians can hardly be addressed in so inapt a gesture

What distinguishes what we do every day from what we call science is typically more a difference of degree than a difference of kind

An international poll found that the United States is ranked far in the lead as “the biggest threat to world peace today,” far ahead of second-place Pakistan, with no one else even close

Moneyed interests are trumping our public health

In each case, countries that have been the victims of colonial-originated underdevelopment have lacked the necessary resources in order to address systemic poverty and dire healthcare needs