Turkey today is no longer simply a regional power with an active foreign policy. What we are watching is the attempt of…
On October 20, Nigeria confirmed an imported case in Abuja. Kenya, meanwhile, reported nine cases linked to a single cluster. The epidemic…
There is something heartbreaking about watching water enter a family home. At first, people try to stop it with towels, boards and…
The persistent violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank has become such common fare it…
The nineteenth-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel made a rather pithy observation in the preface to his book, Elements of the Philosophy of…
The central question confronting anyone who cares about justice and peace in Ethiopia is no longer how to preserve Abiy Ahmed’s government.…
Are we angry enough yet? Haven’t our hearts been broken enough times? Are we ready to act now? How many more children do…
On Sunday, September 13th, a crowd of a few dozen organizers and tenants living at 150 and 154 Belmont Ave. swelled outside…
The stadium is empty, but Israel is still in the game. Though any form of isolation of those responsible for genocide is…
How do you stop a would-be dictator? The first requirement is knowing that it’s possible. In 2024, the people of South Korea…
“What does democracy look like?” As the Supreme Court formally takes up the legal challenges against the state, the streets of New…
As always, the Trump administration is setting ever stranger records for public “entertainment” (and yes, I certainly do have to put that…
This article, the first of two parts, is an interview I conducted of an entity that goes by the initials GPT. Yes,…
[Norbert Byambo Kagosi]: Forced and involuntary displacement can have many causes. I fled my country for many reasons, including insecurity, persistent conflict,…
It was bound to come. With the relentless, remorseless march of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots pullulating the internet and snatching the attention…
Despite all the apocalyptic news, the European automotive industry might still have a future. But not by leaving the industry to those…
As the midterms approach, the debate over the Iran war must move beyond household costs to who authorizes military force and who…
The recent death in my family underscored for me the devastating impact of personal grief, illuminating the deep loss and constant state…
Is the control of strategic technologies the new source of global influence, competition, and political power? To answer this question, we need…
Reports show activism of many minds, addressing many topics and reaching considerable scale erupting in many places. Education, housing, corruption, jobs, prices,…
There is increasing public discussion today, in the US and globally, about the trajectory of the American Empire. The discussion frequently cites…
Eleven years ago, on October 18, 2015, I lay on an operating table at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India, waiting for a…
Spain votes on November 29 in a snap general election, and less than four weeks before the official campaign opens, housing, which…
Nearly two years ago, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released in-depth reports documenting that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. Months later, Israeli human rights groups did…
Early on in this disastrous Trump Presidential term, last February, 2025, I wrote one of these Future Hope columns about the importance…
For decades, Arab governments, particularly those of the Gulf, have spent enormous sums purchasing some of the world’s most sophisticated weapons. They…
In his work written in the 1930s, “Conscience Against Violence” (Castellio gegen Calvin oder Ein Gewissen gegen die Gewalt), the Austrian-born author…
Editor’s note: Salim Lamrani’s central argument is that US sanctions and the oil blockade punish an entire population for refusing to submit…
Since I was a little boy in Athens, I learned at school to cherish two words: integrity and parrhesia – the courage to speak…
The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening. It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces…
Israel’s 2026 election is occurring in a highly polarized and incendiary political atmosphere that recalls 1995. Then, the Oslo process had split…
October 2026 marked a turning point for German unions in the car industry. With the years of boom for cars seemingly over,…
October 2026 marked a turning point for German unions in the car industry. With the years of boom for cars seemingly over,…
As a child, visits to my grandmother’s home in the rural area between the municipalities of Humacao and Yabucoa, in eastern Puerto…
President Donald Trump has been less than coy about possibly ramping up his illegal war of aggression against Iran after the mid-term…
The wave of high-school protests in France, which began in late September 2026 in the suburbs of Paris and spread to many…
Tyrants and demagogues love sports and the governing bodies that preside over them. Despite strictures, injunctions and warnings about dealing with unsavoury…
The Green Party has put the conversation back on track: the problem is not the lack of creative solutions to the Israeli…
The irony is difficult to escape. Haile Selassie became a symbol of resistance to foreign aggression while denying Eritreans the right to…
Northampton, Massachusetts masquerades as one of the most progressive cities in America – a place where police raided a homeless encampment and…
The Nobel Peace Prize is an institution long stuffed with straw. Established by the inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel, its very creation…
From Gaza City in occupied Palestine to the Marble Hill neighborhood in New York, a disturbing parallel has become visible between the…
Porno, Putin, Criminals, AI Nazi Songs, Corruption, Rape & Antisemitism In the September 2026 election in the East-German mini-state of Saxony-Anhalt, the…
Yemen’s civil war reignited in early October, as Saudi Arabia brought in Turkish and Pakistani military support to fight the Houthi rebels,…
Anecdotally, I’ve seen an increasing number of animal activists define themselves in opposition to factory farming, as opposed to nonhuman slaughter in general,…
The olive harvest in the West Bank officially begins on 15 October, a season of deep economic and cultural significance for Palestinians.…
If you understand that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, why read an article focusing on the viewpoints of people who vehemently…
In this article, I take a look at Marx’s distinction between “use-value” and “exchange-value” and apply it to one of the internet’s…
There was a time when teaching was a profession many educators could imagine remaining in for an entire career. They entered classrooms…
Ethiopia is not a prisoner of geography. I find it astonishing that this claim has gained such currency among Ethiopian political elites…
