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Editorial PhilosophyTo understand the qualitative leap of the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East and the process that could transform it into a…
From The Guardian: “The missile hit during the school’s morning session. In Iran, the school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, so…
The rupture occurring today in the Middle East is not merely a confrontation between two military powers. It is a new phase…
The beginnings: when working women paved the way for us today On March 8, we do not recall a passing memory; we…
The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction.…
The situation in Ecuador under Daniel Noboa’s government is one of authoritarianism advancing on several fronts simultaneously to consolidate neoliberalism and total submission to…
The early morning hours of January 3, 2026, marked an inflection point in Venezuela and Latin America’s centuries-long struggle for self-determination and…
Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines…
In the Spring of 2022, I spent the last nights of Ramadan and Eid al-Adha in Havana, Cuba. I made it to…
Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticised. Britain has a…
When a bomb falls on a school, a hospital, or a home, no euphemism can soften the truth. Babies die in incubators.…
On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again — a warning written nearly two centuries ago by Simón…
To begin with, let me recount an old Soviet, Cold War–era joke about America. A Russian and an American are seated side…
As the formal economy that shaped the last two centuries begins to contract, many Canadians are quietly shifting toward local solutions. This…
The DS3D – Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive – is a complicated, highly convoluted, hyper-legalistic invention, but it “can” help workers worldwide.…
“A huge problem, up there at the top of the list, is that the history of efforts over the last many centuries…
If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential…
Amid the so-called “ceasefire,” as imperial grifters and disaster capitalists jockey to remake Gaza in their image and in accordance with their…
Looking back at what I was taught in my 6 decades on this Earth as an American and what I have had…
Introduction Iran’s water crisis has moved beyond the warning stage to become a structural reality. Tehran, a metropolis of 15 million people,…
The United States of America was founded on the lofty principles of freedom, equality and liberty for certain classes of white men. …
On International Working Women’s Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting…
Once — and particularly from an anarcho-syndicalist perspective — works councils were seen as revolutionary institutions for democracy and against capitalism and…
In a Europe that has become vassalized and submissive to the United States, to the detriment of its own interests, one country…
You get focused to resist and the target moves. It doesn’t just move. It morphs. Should you set aside one focus to…
The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that…
Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations. Democracy, however, is…
As a political-cultural geographer who has long been an antiwar organizer and studied the history of U.S. military interventions, it’s clear that…
With fierce anger burning in our hearts and an unbreakable resolve, we mourn the assassination of the courageous feminist and leftist leader…
Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools…
I’ve spent decades writing about men—how we’re shaped, how we’re wounded, and how too often those wounds are mistaken for strength. (I’ve…
INTRODUCTION: TEHRAN, A CAPITAL TO BE EVACUATED WELL BEFORE THE BOMBS, BECAUSE IT’S DRY In November 2025, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian issued…
Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace,…
In the last century people marveled at the Wright brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk…
When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had…
Introduction: The Problem Goes Beyond Electoral Defeat The recurrent rise and fall of left-wing governments across Latin America and Central America—from Venezuela…
This is the English translation of the original introduction to our book, Nella Terza guerra mondiale. Un lessico politico per le lotte del…
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network,…
The debate over the “right of nations to self-determination” within segments of the Iranian left is less the result of a concrete…
For weeks, allegations of sleaze, nepotism, and corruption inside the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have dominated local media in Germany. Nepotism within…
ICE is terrorizing this country and threatening its long term survival. Yet still, many Americans don’t understand the magnitude of this existential…
A social democratic order is one in which society, through the state, asserts control over the market and subordinates it to the…
I wrote over a year ago that “doomerism,” or “doomism,” if you prefer, ought to be a precondition for activism. If you believe…
When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
In January 2026, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a grim update to its earlier work, titled Living Hell: The Israeli…
Trump’s 2026 State of the Union speech was historic—but only in the sense of the longest ever at 1 hour and 47…
For more than six decades, the United States has been suffocating the Cuban people by imposing anachronistic and inhumane economic sanctions. These…
Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” just got squashed. The Supreme Court on February 20 denied, by a 6-3 decision, the Trump administration’s power…
Anna Bueker went to work at the BFGoodrich plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in her early 20s and began building a good…
