When the Democratic National Committee convenes its winter meeting on Thursday in Philadelphia, a key agenda item will be rubber-stamping Joe Biden’s…
The Ukraine War has provided a challenging time for the nations of the world and, particularly, for international law. Since antiquity, far-sighted…
To struggle against the forces of fascism, war, oppression, and ecocide is to confront and resist fearsome foes. The path is not…
Last year I was invited to be interviewed for a new podcast called Here to (T)here on the topic of biodiversity loss.…
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has placed she who claims the country’s presidency, Dina Boluarte under investigation for crimes including genocide, resulting from…
“For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel?” These…
Background to a Changing Strategic Perspective Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has just visited Washington, drawing attention to how Japan is remaking…
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this “a time of unprecedented danger.” It…
Days in January: 31. Number of mass shootings in the US as of January 24: 39. (I pray the number hasn’t gone…
The Shannon Stopover January 11th, 2023 marked the 21st anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay prison. The prison still housing 35…
The ability to solve complex problems is a sign of maturity, intelligence, and some would argue what separates humans from other species.…
On the evening of January 21, a couple dozen people came out in the rain and grouped together in a circle outside…
The Global Firepower ranking was published on January 6. The annual report classifies the world’s strongest militaries based on over 60 factors,…
Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden’s shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable…
When I was a teenager, I knew global warming was caused by fossil fuels. So did Exxon. For decades, Exxon has been hiding…
In 2022 we saw the climate movement take prominence once again, bringing new (and old) ideas on how to protest, struggle and…
The New School’s Old News The New School was founded in 1919 in New York, by a group of scholars who were…
Have you ever heard a fellow progressive, leftist, radical, or revolutionary say, “I remain on the left despite the left, not because…
In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behavior at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines…
The third Monday of January is celebrated as a national holiday to honor the memory of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King…
For many months, conventional media wisdom has told us that Joe Biden would be the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump in…
Hopes and Realities Ukraine’s President Zelensky had a fairly successful visit to Washington last month, returning home with promises of more American…
The beginning of the war on terror at the turn of the century coincided with the creation of new euphemisms to describe…
War is a language of lies. Cold and callous, it emanates from dull, technocratic minds, draining life of color. It is an…
Working for four days and chill for three days – that not just makes up the seven days of a standard week,…
Nearly 50 protesters have been killed by police in Peru following the removal from office of President Pedro Castillo six weeks ago.…
It was the guacamole’s fault! That’s the guy’s defense, anyway — that plus his right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and…
In an influential 1963 pamphlet titled “The Two Souls of Socialism,” the Marxist revolutionary, Hal Draper, said “socialism” encompassed three tendencies. First,…
The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders…
I believe the only force capable of improving workers’ living conditions – and ultimately the force to abolish class society – are…
A chain of Debka dancers links between pregnant olive trees. The harvest itself is no cause for dancing. Olive harvest yields alternate…
The current notion of a “moderate Republican” is an oxymoron that helps to move the country rightward. Last week, every one of…
Unlike the way more important Kinsey (without the “Mc”) – the most brilliant sex research institute of the 1950s – the McKinsey…
More than 60 years ago, as many are aware, civil rights activists began organizing to desegregate businesses in Birmingham, Alabama. By the…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
Kevin McCarthy’s pursuit of power put him into quite a predicament. He was willing to give up anything in concessions to pick…
On the 8th of this month, a week after the inauguration of President Lula da Silva, an event took place in Brasília…
China offers a threatening alternative model of development that is non-capitalist, non-Western, and non-colonial. As such, it undermines the West’s neocolonial domination…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
A famous economist Lionel Robbins, who was no radical, wrote “…the validity of a particular theory is a matter of its logical…
Lula da Silva was inaugurated for a third non-consecutive term as president of Brazil, dramatically reversing the country’s trajectory of the past…
When the newsstand of Giuseppe Trani was swept away by massive flooding that devastated the southern Italian town of Casamicciola, near Naples,…
With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their party’s voters don’t want President Biden…
From the Dept. of Horrible Chutzpah During the fight over the new House Speaker election, Congress member Chip Roy (R-TX), who voted against the…
With the two-party duopoly of neo-fascist Republicans and neo-liberal Democrats choking any meaningful changes to the American political system, many progressive, independent…
What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles? The national direction is quietly predetermined — it’s not up for debate. The president’s…
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and…
The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues, with no policy solution in sight. During the 2022 fiscal year, nearly 2.4 million migrants were apprehended…
Texas Governor Greg Abbot’s Christmas Eve political stunt of sending busloads of desperate immigrants, including women and children, to Vice President Harris’…
