Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short…
I arrived at the Taj Hotel in Baghdad’s Jadriyah neighborhood at 6 a.m., worn thin by the long flight from Los Angeles.…
US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is reportedly set to be announced before the year’s end. This news coincides with increasing reports that…
The year 2025 witnessed escalated threats from the United States on the Global South. In the span of months, Washington declared Venezuelan airspace “closed…
On Thursday, December 4, the White House released a new National Security Strategy, a document that lays out the Trump’s regime’s “America…
German trade unions, like any form of unionism, can be viewed from three political perspectives. From a unitarist viewpoint, trade unions are…
The first U.S. missiles that struck the boats in the Caribbean in early September 2025 were described by Washington as a “counter-narcotics…
It is hard not to notice the word “socialism” appearing steadily more often in steadily more places. Some appearances of the word…
The name Homo sapiens—Latin for “wise man”—has always carried an air of self-congratulation. Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, coined the…
In U.S. political talk, Iraq is often treated as a “finished chapter.” The invasion is history, the occupation is history, and even…
Ten years after Donald Trump first ran for president, he stands at the helm of Titanic America. How did this happen? No…
Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional,…
The long historical journey of the Kurdish freedom movement is a multi-layered series of breaks that have transformed not only the political…
Somewhere between a renaming and a re-founding – deceptively labelled “Generation Germany” (GG) – Germany’s far-right, or neo-Nazi, AfD has given itself…
“What is in a name?” The great Shakespeare had Juliet pose this question, suggesting that names might be delicate shells we can…
Land and environmental defenders—Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives opposing the destructive exploitation of natural resources. Global Witness defines…
The election of Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, as Mayor of New York was not a fluke. Progressive Democrats and Democratic Socialists…
First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On February 29, 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the…
“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing from other war…
Fifty years have passed since the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain following the death of fascist Francisco Franco. However, the…
In a Maghreb growing increasingly thirsty, water is no longer just a resource: it has become a diagnostic tool for our shared…
Jeremy Brecher is a co-founder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network forSustainability. He is the author of more than fifteen…
Ceasefire? Peace in the Middle East? Ask a Gazan about it (well, not one of the 360 or more that the IDF has killed…
Please also consider joining a webinar (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RkidkfT6R662744002iSGQ#/registration) at 4pm PT / 7pm ET on December 7th, hosted by “The JFK Peace Speech Committee,” which…
Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “God created war so Americans would learn geography.” Whether or not he actually said that, might it not…
Each day, we learn of Israel’s theft of yet another slice of Palestine. Piece by piece, acre by acre, the Palestinian nation…
Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally…
Comedy isn’t merely entertainment—it is a civic instrument, a mirror held up to the collective self, reflecting truths that polite society refuses…
With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every…
In recent times in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there has emerged, at once somewhat timidly and somewhat aggressively, an initiative to promote the…
The clients begin arriving at the Lansing Community Food Pantry, about 25 miles southeast of Downtown Chicago, before the doors even open…
Let’s be honest: CBC’s current model is a relic. Seventy percent government-funded, it’s a political football—kicked between Liberal lifelines and Conservative defunding…
Few weeks ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had said: “Violence against women is one of…
Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered the realm beyond industrial…
Courage is rarely convenient. Sometimes it is condemned. Ask Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. On March 16, 1968, Thompson, a young Army helicopter…
Let us compare how leading Nordic European papers report on the “capitulation plan” imposed on the US-subordinated state Ukraine, and the magnificent…
Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has…
For decades, women in Afghanistan have been among the first and easiest victims of fundamentalist fascism and imperialism. In every era and…
We celebrate the 47th anniversary of the official establishment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (November 27, 1978). The emergence of the…
The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having…
On October 21, Sanae Takaichi, the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was voted in as the 104th prime minister…
The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak…
A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and…
“How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child.” So King Lear teaches parents. I, unlike Lear, have…
Multiple international airlines have suspended flights to and from Caracas amidst a heightened US military presence in the Caribbean, after the US…
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction,…
Baristas have launched the largest strike in their company’s history and are standing firm until their demands are met. Thousands of baristas…
US President Donald Trump has authorised the USS Gerald R. Ford to enter the Caribbean. It now floats north of Puerto Rico, joining the USS Iwo Jima and…
Days ago, the RSF militia carried out a brutal massacre in Elfashir; thousands were killed based on their ethnic background in a…
Despite the false promises of neoliberal capitalism and its tireless ideological cheerleaders, capitalism has always coexisted with – and at times produced…
