Industrial union building in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left. If organized labor in the…
This is the third and final part of the Empire Without Flags series. Part I examined Imperial Outreach through finance and institutions:…
The presidential elections this coming October in Brazil (currently in the eye of the storm) are an internal matter for the country,…
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution sponsored by Republican Study Committee Member Jeff Crank (CO-05) to condemn socialism “in…
Cultural heritage is under attack in the United States. The National Historic Preservation Act’s Section 106 regulation, which balances economic development and…
I often find myself in grim negotiations where the employer has already decided to fire workers because they’ve suffered workplace injuries or…
There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the…
Alfred W. McCoy has written an extremely powerful book, giving us a new look at the Cold War: he convincingly argues that…
Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America…
The following article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, which seven writer/activists collectively co-wrote. The seven authors were myself, Leslie…
Jamila Osman is right to sound the alarm in her recent ZNetwork article, “End of Protected Status Puts Thousands of Somali Immigrants at…
When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international lawbreaking…
Canada and the United States have frequently maintained that they have a special relationship, characterized by the world’s longest undefended international border,…
What do the collapse of the Japanese currency and carry trade—and the interventions by US Treasury Secretary Bessent in the currency and bond…
It is the best of times for the protesters gathered outside Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, exposing the hollow nature of the…
Over 120 people gathered in downtown Brussels last Saturday for the People’s Festival of Resistance sponsored by the Resistance for Peace, Democracy…
Gaza showed the genocidal face of Israel’s expulsive strategy. In the West Bank, the same objective is realized with incremental escalation. The…
Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres…
At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola…
The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for a ‘leisure trip’ in Thailand before returning to its campaign of destruction against…
This is Part I of a three-part series. Why does representative democracy seem so broken that it is tempting to translate “Vox…
As his superyacht Boardwalk docked in Venice as part of the “Freedom 250 Coastal Diplomacy Italy initiative” in July, billionaire US Ambassador…
In Minaçu, in the northern part of the Brazilian state of Goiás, the landscape bears the scars of an earlier mineral rush.…
If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the…
Reprehensible as it is, the arms trade is an exercise of purgatorial ethics pursued by all states keen on having a market…
Abstract Turkey’s republic is approaching its centenary, built on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire as a nation-state that, rather than accommodating…
€800 billion. This is the proposed amount that the European Commission’s Readiness 2030 intends to spend on defence spending. €150 billion will…
I was born on July 20, 1944, in the midst of World War II. My father had just returned from Burma where…
The tiny East German state of Saxony-Anhalt is having a state election on 6 September, and Germany is deeply worried that the…
In a forceful address ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 elections, gender justice leader Shobha Shukla declared that inclusive democracy is not a side…
When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough…
Ryan Kominakis opened his energy bill several months ago and decided on the spot to run for state representative in Indiana’s 4th…
On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to…
The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This is particularly so in…
The People’s Palace: The End of One Experiment and the Beginning of a New Question On 25 August 2026, Mazloum Abdi announced from…
Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not ignorance of the risks,…
This article examines Qatar’s position by combining rentier state theory, world-systems theory, and Marxist political economy. Its central argument is that Qatar’s…
Refugees are usually presented to the world at the moment when they have lost the most: homes, livelihoods, citizenship protections, family members…
A recent analysis of the impact of global warming in Germany this summer, which is not over yet, saw not only a…
As a mother of two children who has often been on the losing side of family battles against screen time, I’ve been…
Bernie Sanders has recently taken up AI issues but I have a feeling most leftists are skeptical of AI’s critics, not particularly…
Childhood is meant to be a journey of gradual awakenings; an accumulation of sunlit afternoons, scraped knees, carefree school days and the…
The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions, depleted stocks of goodwill…
As global crises descend around him, Donald Trump seems increasingly incapable of a rational response. He rants and rails, threatens and indulges…
Dear Editor: I was very disappointed to see the plug for (so-called) artificial intelligence on the second-to-last page of the May 2026…
Forget about Ancient Sparta, Attila the Hun, Hernán Cortés, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Adolf Hitler, and all of the conquerors that…
When Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018, the reaction among many Ethiopians, especially in the diaspora, was extraordinary. There was understandable…
Earlier this year, after admiring the organization for about a decade, I finally joined the Democratic Socialists of America. In many ways,…
The gravest danger in the present war is not that Iran has already decided to manufacture a nuclear weapon. There is no…
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM [August 24, 2026]: On August 29, 2026, international activists, grassroots movements, and civil society organizations will converge in Ixelles, Brussels,…
