In Trump’s America the Greentech Revolution is being waged from below. Although Trump’s attacks have slowed the advance of fossil-free technologies in…
Bolivia has been rocked since early May by strikes, mass marches, and road blockades across the country as people demand the resignation…
Terry Stickles supported the successful union drive at JSW Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio, in 2025, then went to the bargaining table…
As a community organizer and environmental activist for over 15 years, I’ve often used the metaphor that “we are spinning on a…
On March 1, 1945, only six weeks before his death, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress that pointed…
I recently drove to a gas station in Massachusetts to fill my tank with regular gas, the cheapest around, and, to my…
On March 4, 2026, a U.S. warship torpedoed and sank the unarmed Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The…
After Miami-based firm Affinity Partners secured their first building permit for major developments on Albania’s coast on April 29, outrage in the…
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to…
While Trump conducts his war against Greentech, many US states are forging ahead with energy expansion based on sun, wind, and water.…
Sixty one years ago, July 30, 1965, Congress enacted Medicare to provide health insurance for people ages 65 and older and the…
My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria,…
Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at…
It is 19 April 2025. A 12-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are playing in front of their house in the village…
On 4 March 2026, a US military vessel torpedoed and sunk the unarmed Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of…
At this juncture in history, humanity’s situation is so volatile that whatever may await us beyond this turning point is of such…
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…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
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…
June 24 marked the start of the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises, the world’s largest international naval war games. Led…
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,…
