Resistance to Trumpest Fascism grows. Discussions, phone calls and emails, meetings, rallies, marches, and soon occupations and encampments. Desires, demands, confrontations, and…
All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or extremism establishes a…
The website of a certain pan-Arab media organization seems fixated on translating, commenting, or briefing its audience on everything that US and…
The major weapon of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime is fear that causes people to be intimidated into silence and submission. The regime is…
On March 15, 2025, in a new executive order, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that endows the president with…
The attempted deportation of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, met with dramatic and widespread resistance, is one of the first, high profile, specifically…
On Friday, with another government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats, and their feckless leader, Chuck Schumer, fully folded to the Republican Party’s bullying…
As Israel’s war on Gaza escalates and the occupation of Palestine deepens, international solidarity has surged. Mass protests, boycott campaigns, and public…
At the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski was the only European to applaud the speech by…
The title of an astonishing article from one of the oldest and most influential Jewish publications in the U.S., The Forward, reads:…
Lost amidst the firehose of lies uttered by Donald Trump at his address before Congress March 4, was a New Mexico Democratic congresswoman’s succinct…
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail,” warns a timeless Chinese proverb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however,…
Pop open those bottles of chilled champagne. The United States of America is now in the same exclusive company as the Democratic…
As chants of ‘No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!’ echoed through downtown Manhattan on 10 March 2025, I spoke to a person named…
On 27 January 2025, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians left their temporary shelters in southern Gaza and marched en masse to the…
In 1989, one-third of the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil, lived in impoverished regions on the fringes of the city, cut off from sanitation, clean water,…
At times like these—who am I kidding, when were there times like these?—one wants to stay in bed, bury one’s head, dream…
During his address to Congress on March 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump faced brief heckling from Democratic Representative AI Green and…
How much joy is in your life these days? How much play in your resistance to all the fear, repression, violence, burnout,…
Despite a legally binding treaty and several other declarations, agreements and promises on gender equality and human rights in the past 50…
When the world was turned upside down … Zimbabweans, Bolivians, Guatemalans, and Haitians went on cruises around the Australian coast. Venezuelan, Iranian,…
The conversation on settler colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, clearly demonstrated in the everyday…
On February 22, 2025, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) hosted a “Legislative Town Hall” in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (CDA). KCRCC…
In the year marking the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, we are witnessing a new surge of hate…
On March 4, Bernie Sanders published a statement saying “For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy”, expressing his concern that the Trump administration has…
To begin to correct the injustices that generations of Palestinians have faced, and to become “a society that can live with its…
When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this…
The first and most treacherous step involves admitting that we are fucked. That’s the hardest part. We live in a land with…
In September 2024, The RSF militia looted The Sudanese National Museum which contains invaluable historical statues and archetypical collections, shortly thereafter, the…
The coup attempt led by Jair Bolsonaro and his allies, including former Defense Minister Braga Netto, profoundly impacted Brazil’s fragile democracy, posing…
International law is fighting for relevance. The outcome of this fight is likely to change the entire global political dynamics, which were shaped by…
All this week, dedicated nuclear weapons abolitionists have been meeting at the United Nations in New York. The up-beat gathering is the…
In January 2025, the International Criminal Court investigator announced that he would be seeking arrest warrants over atrocities in Darfur. This crucial…
Six weeks into the Trump presidency it is important to recognize that the rapidly growing MAGA resistance movement is turning out big…
Among the Republican voters experiencing buyer’s remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin…
The whole thing is a fiasco. The theatrical drama in the White House’s Oval Office triggered a series of predictable responses around…
Over the weekend, Politico reported that, in early February, a group of Democratic “consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders” had convened in…
US President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin and told him that the US government is committed to a peace process…
I’ve been doing a chalk-talk/PPT on “The Three M’s – Everything You Need to Know About the Federal Budget” for many years. …
The recent election in Germany showed that trade unions are no longer an overtly progressive force nor are they a safeguard against…
Review of How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left by Eoin Higgins (Bold Type Books, 2025)…
Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a…
Not everything that apparently has no beginning or end is infinite. For example, a circle, which is a confined space-time. It is…
I almost never agree with Mr. Trump. However, having wasted a life as a lawyer trying to resurrect the Constitution of “limited,…
The war in Ukraine may or may not be winding down with ongoing US/Russian negotiations, but this leads to a key question:…
Donald Trump’s second term may not be all bad for all nations, especially China. According to many Chinese internet users, Trump’s policies…
Language matters. Aside from its immediate impact on our perception of great political events, including war, language also defines our understanding of…
Rapid technological and social change is a powerfully disruptive force – a wave of creative destruction – leaving in its wake a…
I’ve believed for many years that in the race against time to prevent ecosystem and societal meltdown because of climate heating and…
For months, Serbian citizens have been protesting against the repressive regime of Aleksandar Vučić and the entire corrupt, clientelist system developed or…
