Introduction Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed one of the largest waves of protest since the Iraq War. Student encampments…
A sitting United States congressman was detained for more than an hour last week by armed men carrying American-made rifles, and when…
In June 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote to Republican Representative Marlin Stutzman of California, saying that “the time has now arrived…
A System That Expands on Its Own The fear of Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs), or sanctions, is not unfounded. For example: since…
Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal Court, have decided to…
Life is a bit of a tradeoff, isn’t it? On one hand, we have our individual autonomy and collective autonomy as a…
Continuing a presentation of the components of Classical Marxism Leninism preparatory to assessing the system’s merits and demerits as ideology for contemporary…
June 24 marked the start of the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises, the world’s largest international naval war games. Led…
After the 2024 election, the White House website described what it called Donald Trump’s “mandate,” beginning with “putting a stop to endless…
In this crucial mid-term election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher,…
With the Iran-US ceasefire all but retired to the infirmary of international politics, Washington has conducted air strikes on Iran for a…
Much of the time, it seems as if the war machine runs on auto-pilot. Indeed, the United States has been engaged in…
The Permian period ended about 250 million years ago with the largest recorded mass extinction in Earth’s history, when a series of…
Erdogan met him at the airport, which heads of state generally do not do. There were cannons. There were soldiers on horseback.…
History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation…
Abstract This article examines Turkey’s geopolitical position through the lens of world-systems theory, drawing on the Marxist theory of imperialism. Its central…
As the United States commemorates the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the nation is set to abdicate its independence 250 years…
It was a distasteful affair, but Australian politicians have become accustomed to those toadying practices that accompany capitulations to power. On his…
The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement…
The United States is a plutocracy. Its economy works for the wealthy and powerful at the expense of working people. It is…
“We’re used to people saying ‘fuck no’ and doing it anyway.” These words were seemingly spoken by our very own Governor Gretchen…
Every year on 11 July, the public sphere across the former Yugoslavia becomes, almost without fail, the arena for the same long-predictable…
Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this…
A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare…
The Political Economy of Familial Power Reproduction in Peripheral Rentier Capitalism Why do some republics, without formally abandoning their constitutions, gradually develop…
‘I think when it comes to nuclear, we are really in a good place.’ With these words, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte…
Recently the UN had its big AI moment. On 1 July, the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI published its preliminary report:…
“I just want to say there was tremendous love in that room,” President Trump declared as he wrapped up the 2026 NATO…
Nuclear nonproliferation requires national sovereignty; states must believe that they can preserve their security without nuclear weapons. Where international law is respected,…
Deferring a Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still…
Marcelo Assis recalled how his family arrived in the United States about 35 years ago, “poor as hell”—yet certain that America offered…
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping walked side by side through the Temple of Heaven in May, the headlines went to Taiwan,…
Under the beating sun on the morning of June 21, Mirtala del Rosario Hernández Agustín joins families of the disappeared and members…
As NATO leaders gather in Ankara on July 7-8, the alliance will again speak the language it has used for decades: unity,…
Absorbing the revelations in the book Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, I posed a question to my American…
Some of the most peaceful moments of my life were spent standing on the deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier just…
With the collapse of the ceasefire with Iran, renewed American airstrikes, and widening cracks within the Western alliance dominating the headlines, the…
At the NATO summit in Ankara this week, President Trump told reporters he was “very disappointed” with the alliance over its members’…
Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a facsimile), the leader of…
Humanitarian education refers to educational initiatives developed or supported by humanitarian organizations to reduce suffering, protect vulnerable populations, and help communities recover…
This article positively presents Classical Marxist Theory as one part of Classical Marxist Leninist ideology. I hope it will introduce the conceptual…
“The American Dream is Back,” President Trump boasted during his July 4, 2026, speech on the National Mall. This is the same…
“…sensitivity toward destructiveness-cruelty is rapidly diminishing, and necrophilia, the attraction to what is dead, decaying, lifeless, and purely mechanical, is increasing throughout…
Yet again, FIFA, and its chief, Gianni Infantino, have distinguished the game of football by showing what it is all about. Not…
As the country and this administration launched its America 250 and Freedom 250 “Celebrations”, what we experienced in the nation’s capitol and…
The February 2026 Iran war cannot be understood as an isolated event; but rather the outcome of over four decades of coordinated…
The following has been edited for clarity and length. Norman Solomon: You’ve downplayed the importance of the individual in history. But the…
Abstract Across divergent political contexts—from Iran to Latin America—political discourse is increasingly marked by a structural failure to recognize society as a…
I recently had the chance to send a message to the President of Ireland, Her Excellency Catherine Connolly. President Connolly is a…
Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. Long before the name “New…
