Twenty four years ago I wrote an essay titled “Resurrect the R Word.” To many people back then revolution meant chaos, violence,…
Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law,…
Everyone wants a good future for their children, grandchildren and students. Most would say a better future. A quality education. Good work…
Estimates of the human cost of the unrest vary dramatically; U.S.-based monitors such as HRANA report at least 2,571 people killed, while…
The past year has completely discredited any claim that choosing between the Democratic and Republican parties would be merely a matter of “pick your…
On a sunny and modestly warm day in mid-November, I have a clear view of the San Rafael Valley from high in…
Modern history is replete with events so extraordinary, aberrant, revolting, and surprising that one feels like exclaiming: how is this possible!? Normally,…
On a cold January morning, a small group of visitors walks through a National Park, expecting to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s…
WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to decide that a government that purports to represent the union of…
Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with…
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail From January 5-7 I…
Millions of Americans have taken to the streets to resist Trump’s hijacking of democracy. That’s a start, but it’s not enough. Our…
We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but…
What happens when a political outsider acts as an unsanctioned auditor of the system? Trump’s presidency exposes weaknesses in American democracy that…
If Gaza’s reconstruction is mishandled, it will not only fail millions of Palestinians — it will accelerate the unravelling of the global…
President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed…
In April 2023, a war broke out in Sudan between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia. It is estimated…
Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump’s clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland “by hook or by…
During seemingly civilised bilateral trade talks in Beijing, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat across from Chinese president Xi Jinping and…
On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts,…
Al Polk landed a job at a cutting-tool plant in his early 20s and then promptly started paying Social Security taxes—every week,…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been accustomed to challenges, relentless pressure and widely believed misrepresentations about it. As the current…
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following…
Fascists and various authoritarian personality types have a proclivity for playing the victim. Anyone who calls into question their brutal tactics is…
It is hard to understand why Donald Trump is so anxious to acquire Greenland even if it takes military force. When he…
1. The Lesson of Venezuela At the dawn of an ordinary day in early January of this year, 2026, the world woke…
The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that…
My goal in this oddly titled and rather short episode is to suggest a near universally applicable strategic measuring stick for choosing…
The new year began on a very foreboding note. First was the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its President with…
Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters…
In a flagrant disregard for international law and national sovereignty, the Trump administration invaded and kidnapped Venezuela’s President Maduro and First Lady…
In the U.S., seventeen million people, across multiple generations, have a shared personal identity based on their past military service. About 1.3…
With the rapid advance of Germany’s extreme right and adjacent neo-Nazis, a serious challenge for Germany’s trade unions – organized within Germany’s…
ICE’s servile savagery differs from conventional policing in degree, but not in kind. The same structural reasons that lead to brutality in…
There is a widening gap today between global possibilities and global realities. The possibilities are enormous, for―thanks to a variety of factors,…
There’s a scene playing out across American social media that should disturb anyone with a functioning conscience. A woman lies dead, killed…
Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite…
In the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, lawyer Celia Flores, neither the ‘rule of law’ (if ever relevant…
January 3, 2026, should be the date to end all discussion: Trump’s raid on Venezuela should have clarified reality even to the…
The radical breakthrough quality of Abdullah Öcalan’s thought stems not only from exceeding the limits of the classical leftist paradigm but from…
CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans call on TikTokers across the world to flood the platform for Palestine to #TakeBackTikTok from…
The start of 2026 arrives less as a new beginning and more as the potent aftershocks of the many earthquakes we endured…
ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly detaining Native American citizens, and ignoring or refusing to treat Tribal ID cards as proof of…
The United States did not invent the concept of bombing civilians – that tradition originated with the Luftwaffe of Herman Goering and…
Across arid and semi-arid regions, the same paradox is unfolding. Groundwater levels are falling, droughts are intensifying, and yet cities and rural…
One of my kids recommended to me that I watch the program titled Justified. I was prejudiced against it because it appeared…
Last Saturday (January 3th), a massive US military attack, concentrating the largest naval aggressor force ever assembled in the Americas in the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing…
It is a belief held by most people in society that the internet is a novel danger. That it is a threat…
