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Editorial PhilosophyOn July 22 of this year, about 300 protestors prevented the Crown Iris, the only Israeli-owned cruise ship, from landing about 1,600…
The power lines of the world are shifting at unprecedented speed. Geopolitical tensions, resource scarcity, and ecological urgency are exposing the fragility…
If I’m completely honest, I can’t recall all the twists and turns of 1984. I probably read it in high school or…
I have been engaging with AI about itself in some recent RevolutionZ podcast episodes and in some written articles as well. This…
Putin and Trump last week agreed to meet at a location in Alaska. Indications are the meeting will occur as soon as…
“I do think it’s my job to be there and I do think that I need to model the behavior that I…
Introduction It’s been over two-years since Teamsters General President – Sean O’Brien – rubber stamped his name in a concessions filled contract…
The Limits of Friendship Donald Trump is proving time and again to foreign leaders that counting on friendly relations is senseless. Most…
In late July, the genocide in Gaza passed a harrowing milestone. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the death toll from…
Dart Taft praised the district office of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for stepping in a couple of years…
If you live long enough, and I mean really live, you’re bound to acquire lots of great stories. One of the most…
The flag of Israel represents the greatest human rights disaster in modern history, yet has flown proudly at the Broome County Correctional Facility…
While the use of the term fascism to describe the Trump administration increases in popularity, opponents of the term continue to voice…
Tomorrow, as the Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League, we will come together to hold a political camp under the theme: “20 Years of…
The movement for Palestinian rights has long been one of the least antisemitic spaces in US politics. It is highly conscious of…
The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide. However,…
For 80 years, since the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has stood at the brink of nuclear…
De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match the employment opportunities of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting…
Introduction History teaches us that major social transformations have always occurred in the wake of two types of traumatic social upheavals: war…
The late John Pilger was an Australian-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. Pilger’s more than 60 documentary films can be seen on…
This past week was punctuated by a perfect storm of negative US economic reports and events. Together they mean the door to…
This August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000…
Why more about AI? Because, even with the ceaseless, stupendous mainstream hype about AI, most folks aren’t very clear about the situation.…
It has become abundantly clear that after 250 years, a second American revolution is necessary. Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration…
Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the…
“You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re…
Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then…
I rarely visit Rome without stopping at the Campo de’ Fiori to pay homage to Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher who, in…
On 16 June 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967,…
Originally economics, as it emerged as a distinct science by the end of the eighteenth century, had been the domain of freethinkers…
Ecocide and genocide are two faces of empire. Fossil-fueled capitalism drives both ecological collapse and violent repression. From Gaza to the Amazon,…
Harmon Dent’s congregation “adopted” an apartment building in Beaumont, Texas, and started handing out gift baskets, food, and other treats to the…
“Good Trouble Day” was July 17, 2025, the fifth anniversary of the death of Civil Rights Movement veteran John Lewis, who encouraged…
Proponents of the theory and praxis of social ecology – the holistic approach to reharmonizing society and nature originated by social theorist…
The commons refers to shared cultural and natural resources, such as air, water, and land, which are accessible to and protected by…
Moral injury is the social, psychological, and spiritual harm that arises from a betrayal of one’s core values, such as justice, fairness,…
So said Voltaire. Like many truisms that stand the test of time, this one often fades into the fog of war and…
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to…
In June 2025, while indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States were still underway, Israel followed soon by the U.S. launched…
The book The AI Con (written by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna) is a clearly-written and fairly concise examination of the reality…
Since fall 2023, Israel has engaged in genocidal atrocities in Gaza. So, why hasn’t the Genocide Convention been used to preempt the…
The Student Blockade Movement in Serbia emerged in the midst of a broader student, secondary school, and civic uprising, which erupted in…
The irony of current times is that despite the writing on the wall “health is a fundamental human right,” the ground reality…
What sparked me to write this article was the persistent and reductive narrative that resurfaced following the recent U.S.–Israel bombing of Iran.…
For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that…
The conflict that broke out in 2023 between the Sudanese national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia has turned the country…
The European Union (EU) and the U.S. administration have reached a deal on international trade. Is it a fair deal for both…
Since Israel attacked Iran in June, the opinion sections of the United States’ two biggest newspapers have been carrying water for Donald…
Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping…
My analysis of the beginnings of cracks in NATO had been published with a short delay, just enough to become obsolete. I pointed to…
