After decades of bipartisan deference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the likely contenders for the next Democratic presidential nomination…
I was honored to be in Paris with 40,000 attendees at this amazing summit of changemakers towards a livable planet: https://www.changenow.world/ I spoke to…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya…
As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take…
In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the…
“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.” It is…
The foisting of a Jewish state in the heart of Palestine was an arrogant imperial decision that has left a trail of…
The Airwaves Radio was introduced commercially in 1920, when the Westinghouse Corp. launched station KDKA in Pittsburg. Other stations followed. Because transmission…
I am frustrated. I’ve written an article, and I know it’s good because the editors who rejected it actually loved it. They…
In 2006, I returned to Northwest Indiana and reconnected with family and friends after processing out of the United States Marine Corps.…
In Silivri Prison, more than three and a half years had passed since I wrote a transfer petition at the urging of…
I’m pretty certain, based on experiences and study, that a very big majority of US Americans who understand the need for progressive,…
On 29 January, Donald Trump published an Executive Order in which he described Cuba as “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the…
30,000 Americans, “pissed off” at the increasingly reckless and ruthless actions and policies of Trump, marched in the 3rd No Kings protest…
“Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got…
Legend has it that tanks – the Germans call them Panzer – were introduced during World War I as Britain’s armoured vehicles,…
Modern economies depend on a range of essential inputs that are not fully priced or exchanged in markets. These include ecosystem functions—such…
In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died…
It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent…
We are living through times where the architecture of global peace is not merely crumbling; it is being deliberately dismantled. The drums…
Donald Trump’s illegal, increasingly unpopular war on Iran is sinking Republican prospects for winning the midterm elections, to the delight of Washington…
Venezuelans in the News On the morning of 26 March 2026, two crowds gathered outside of the federal courthouse in Manhattan where…
You live somewhere. You care not only about there, but about elsewhere. You care about your home, neighborhood, state, country, region, continent,…
This is the first sentence of a column I cannot write . . . of a “war” I cannot win. There’s just…
Missile inventories have become a focal point in the ongoing military confrontation with Iran. The Alma Research and Education Center estimates Iran’s…
[This article is the fourth of a four-part series on the necessity of “living in the future tense.” The first was published…
The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the…
A word keeps appearing across political commentary and media critique, as if it might contain the problem: childish. It surfaces with remarkable…
Some are expressing frustration that Iran’s conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the…
Those who had the misfortune of growing up in a war zone require no explanation. War is hell, it is true—but for…
Israel in particular, but also the United States, have been breathing new life into the concept of decapitation as a weapon of…
A shaky video shot in the streets of Solino in October 2024 captures the reality unfolding in Haiti. In the clip, a contingent of…
I traveled to Cuba this month. As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from…
A wave of public outrage swept through Sarajevo following the two-day “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit,” held on March 24–25,…
Microplastics, plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters, can be found in land, air, and water, and have infiltrated our food chain, resulting…
I’ve been surprised the past week to hear some people, not many but some, telling me that they or people they know…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Yes, for us to diminish and then end escalating wars, for us to stop and then end onrushing Fascism, and for us…
Why do people spend so much time analyzing and documenting the seemingly never-ending horrors taking place throughout the world at the hands…
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its…
With the deadline for paying federal income taxes fast approaching, the thoughts of American taxpayers turn naturally toward the age-old question: Why…
The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire…
This past weekend, Trump threatened to escalate the War with Iran by destroying that country’s energy infrastructure starting, as he said, “with…
I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see…
US President Donald Trump did not invent the phrase “fake news,” but he undoubtedly transformed it into a political weapon, relentlessly accusing…
Another Nonexistent Threat Regime change in Cuba may be the next stop for the Trump war machine. Here’s what he told CNN…
Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces…
China’s vast development and export of renewable energy gear and electric vehicles is helping to drive the green transition globally — the…
China, which was the largest holder of U.S. government debt as recently as 2019, has cut its holdings to the lowest level since 2008,…
