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

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