When the US-Iran conflict escalated earlier this year, the immediate concern centered on oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz. But the…
I am writing this text with the Americas and Europe in mind, but the phenomena I analyze apply, with modifications, to other…
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This is part two of a two part interview. Part one is available here. With a population of 1.47 billion, India has…
Part One of a two-part interview. Part two is available here. Indian human rights lawyer, educator, and writer Nandita Haksar boldly argues that…
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One of the central problems of modern social and political thought concerns the relationship between personal morality and social transformation. Most people…
“How can we allow the tobacco industry to fill its coffers while we the people have to empty our pockets to fend…
The images that have emerged from Gaza reveal the anatomy of a desolate landscape that defies human comprehension. Nothing can prepare the…
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Is it enough for a politician to say the right thing? Or is genuine credibility also measured by what one does in…
Donald Trump is back at it again, making one of those big, dramatic statements that only he can deliver. This time, he…
Not long ago, I received a request for short answers to some questions meant to prod discussion in a reading group about…
On Saturday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of the Ebola outbreak, where the…
One of the curious ironies of our time is that, although many politicians spout heated nationalist rhetoric, rail against foreign nations, and…
UTRECHT – Yesterday the Jose Maria Sison Legacy Foundation successfully launched the compilation, the Little Book on Fascism and How to Fight…
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In contemporary political discourse, Israel is not merely a state or a strategic ally of the United States. It represents a particular…
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Last week, the world watched as Donald Trump wrangled up his bro-squad of capitalist billionaires and chartered them across the world to…
The Modern City Against Climate In many cities around the world, walking outside in the middle of summer has become a physically…
Following public remarks by former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael Murphy, a political storm erupted across both the Bosniak political…
Our movement stands shoulder to shoulder with activists across this country in condemning the brutal, calculated assassination of Comrade Mokoena Letsie in…
For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears…
The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial…
Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance…
Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding…
In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with American families—to fund and attend…
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Recent years have seen an upsurge in the United States of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab, particularly anti-Palestinian bigotry. The cause is multifaceted. …
On May 23rd, in Poulsbo, WA, hundreds of people joined several dozen pacifist Buddhist monks from the Japanese based Nipponzan Myohoji religious…
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the onset of the civil war and revolution in Spain. In this essay I suggest…
President Donald Trump has brazenly engaged in what appears to be insider trading. A bombshell story published in Bloomberg on May 14, 2026, revealed that Trump…
The history of Abdullah Öcalan’s search for a solution to the Kurdish question dates back at least 30 years. During this period,…
More than sixty years ago, Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno, warned that political independence meant little without economic sovereignty. In his famous Trisakti…
Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding…
Forgotten Water: How Cities Desertify Their Own Territories In modern cities, a silent paradox repeats itself: in countries affected by drought, rainwater…
Imagine you have considerable background as a progressive or revolutionary activist. You are a good communicator about war and peace, fascist trends,…
On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the…
I entered the MARTA station at Peachtree Center in Atlanta at 5:45am on a Saturday. I needed to get to the Atlanta/Hartsfield…
Throughout history, the siege of populations has been widely used as a strategy to force the surrender of the political and military…
Lebanese painter Tamara Haddad focuses on war, ecological devastation, and the physical transformations taking place on earth through her work, which places…
Who would imagine that an international sporting event will be the next battleground in the fight against authoritarian repression? Yet that scenario…
Long before the Lone Star State started shifting, in the 1990s, from blue to red—after a century of Democratic Party domination—some working-class…
“The Republicans go for the jugular; the Democrats go for the capillaries” – Kevin Phillips With the recent release of the long-withheld,…
