Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the…
No, it was not Santa Claus or Papa Noel as some of my adopted Argentine family refer to this mythic figure. The…
At the end of October, several members of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), a German-based organization…
This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless…
In Ft. Wayne, Indiana this September, I was arrested with a long time activist friend, Cliff Kindy, for blocking the entrance to…
Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern…
On midnight on Saturday December 21st, members of Amazon Labor Union Local 1 began their strike at the JFK-8 warehouse in Staten…
In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid workers? This October,…
Strange now to think of you while I read the words of a Jewish poet long gone on his boat of metaphors…
In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the final resistance we…
President-elect Donald Trump said at a conference for young conservatives in Arizona this past Sunday that the official policy of his upcoming…
The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on…
I was recently invited to give a talk at MIT on campus organizing and battling against Trumpism. This was because in 1965,…
We were in one of those finish-everything-before-the-holidays meetings, pussyfooting about an accusation someone had made. Suddenly a colleague confessed, “My hands are…
The behavioral healthcare workers in Kaiser Permanente’s vast empire of hospitals, clinics medical offices, and homecare settings are on strike today in…
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants, and…
Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different kind of censorship,…
Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road…
The December 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the public outrage over the state of healthcare it sparked, is a…
Colleges and universities around the globe are once again squarely in the political crosshairs, with many of us in academia bracing for…
In at least three separate elections, Donald J. Trump was portrayed by his supporters and right-wing intellectuals as an ‘anti-war’ candidate. This…
Karl Jaspers once wrote that the general public made use of the results of science like primitive peoples made use of the…
“A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they…
Communities of color and minoritized populations are disproportionately burdened with environmental hazards nationwide. Discriminatory policy practices often overlook the overall well-being and…
Once again, the holiday season is upon us. Whether we choose to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa—or simply participate in the ongoing festivities—we…
“Jesus recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming,…
Following the murder of United Healthcare’s CEO, social media has been flooded with outrage, mostly directed against insurance companies that deny care. …
A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The reason behind this…
Trump is a pestilence, an abomination. Really. He is. No more debate. It is as evident as a cloud of locusts. It…
Before hanging on December, 2, 1859, John Brown slipped a note to a jailer: “I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes…
Empire and injustice are not abstract concepts – they shape our daily lives. Awareness alone won’t change that. We can read the…
While the Biden administration proclaims “a season of Light and Peace” as the theme of its Christmas celebrations this year and thousands…
Within establishment media and politics in the United States, there have been two dominant viewpoints of Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza…
“We had several other people in the country [USA}, even among the Jews, the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that has…
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated…
“A country gets the leadership it deserves.” That was my sentiment back in 2016 when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for the…
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is a classic Orwellian institution. It isn’t a governmental department, nor is it designed to promote…
A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-status…
The unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless other marine animals die as “unintended” bycatch…
The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the…
“I have long believed that we need an alternative to the Democrat and Republican parties, and since 1974 I have acted on…
Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that have devastated…
On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to…
Both personally and collectively, the certainties of the present always carry with them the germ of future uncertainties. But there are moments…
The town of Carrboro sued Duke Energy Corp. today for the company’s decades-long role leading a nationwide climate deception scheme that has…
Our idea was simple if a little unorthodox for the development world: Let communities choose their path and we follow. It was…
The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for…
In mid-November, the Biden administration (given his diminished mental capacity, whoever is now in charge) authorized the Kyiv regime to launch Lockheed…
When my grandfather was born there were neither cars, airplanes, nor phones. Yet, before he died, man had walked on the moon.…
Are you like me? Has getting out of bed become a serious challenge? Has getting back in bed become a beckoning distraction?…
