Venezuela, under threat following the attacks of January 3, and in perspective alongside the historical mirror that is Iran, allows us to…
The underlying cause of the ongoing and horrific US intervention in Venezuela is capitalism and resource imperialism. This drives the US to…
While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss…
In early January, several currency trackers briefly displayed the Iranian rial’s value as “$0.00,” unable to process the speed and scale of…
It was just a few years ago that Cliff Tobey and other union miners on Minnesota’s Iron Range won significant wage increases…
The shoes were placed carefully on the frozen sidewalk outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Hospital clogs. The kind worn by nurses who…
The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules—or designing new ones—to fit US strategic interests. This…
The country is witnessing the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist, far-right hate group in the United States,…
Across much of Africa, water policy over recent decades has followed a familiar and seemingly rational path: build large dams, drill deeper…
“You Said You Wanted a Fight” is built around a simple idea: one of the most effective tools of power is making…
When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Jeeez, Don, I hear your support is tanking. Bummer. Are you looking for helpful hints? I think I have some. You like…
January 29, 2026, marks the second year since the Israeli military, using U.S. provisioned weapons, murdered Hind Rajab. Had she lived, this…
Conceivably, nobody has ever expressed the view of right-wing and Neo-Nazi parties towards the democratic state better than Hitler’s minister of propaganda,…
As the tragic and shocking events in Minneapolis mean that the crisis in the United States under Trump now seems to be…
The widespread cesium-137 contamination that spread far beyond an industrial area in Indonesia has led to radioactive contamination of exported shrimp, cloves,…
Khaled Abu Jarrar, a 58-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoon, now shelters in Gaza City’s former Legislative Council building—one of thousands of structures…
Doug McMillon, set to retire as Walmart CEO in February 2026, has been getting extremely positive reportage in the business press in…
Early on Saturday, January 3rd, Venezuela was attacked on behalf of oil, mineral, tech, and weapons profiteers in a regime change operation.…
There are moments in global politics when the mask slips—not because power suddenly discovers morality, but because maintaining the performance becomes too…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trump’s leading opponent and the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee.…
“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a…
We seem to be in the midst of a widening crack in the edifice that supports US ideology – denial. Even the…
History has a long memory in Jakarta. In 1955, as newly decolonised nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia placed Palestine at the moral…
In a discussion with one of my Danish leftist-oriented friends about the situation in Syria, I told her: What is happening now…
Like many Americans right now, I want to believe that the 2026 and 2028 elections will offer a reprieve from the chaos…
I have a question I never imagined I’d have to ask in the United States. Not, “Are you worried about where the…
So it has come to this: ICE Gestapo agents claim, without a judge’s order, they are permitted to enter houses at their…
Israel’s longstanding campaign to lure Washington into war with Iran seems to have fizzled once again—for now, anyway. But in their attempt…
“The […] United States working class is [in] very many important respects […] the most progressive working class of the world.” Leon…
On 5 February 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) — the last remaining arms-control pact between the United States and Russia —…
Israel has come home to roost in Minnesota. The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul have become the Palestinians of Minnesota. The…
People are shocked at the cold-blooded killings of Alex Petti and Renee Nicole Good. They should be shocked. ICE shot Petti multiple…
I’ve lived in or near Burlington, Vermont for most of the last thirty-five years. In 1999 I wrote a piece for a…
Indonesia’s decision to join the Board of Peace (BoP) for Gaza is not a diplomatic adjustment. It is a moral collapse. It…
There is no shortage of lamentations, disbelief, and outrage in the Western media over the madness of the US government under Trump,…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Through the actions of regional and international hegemonic powers, the Middle East is being reshaped once again, a century after its last…
The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as…
The Middle East has been witnessing bloody nationalist conflicts for decades that have left millions of victims and displaced persons and massive…
A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza…
Algeria has embarked on major and strategic undertakings: agricultural revitalization, ambitious housing programs, development of the South, and the strengthening of food…
In 1945, two years prior to India’s independence, the current Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, was born into a working-class family…
Donald Trump’s Venezuela gambit signals far more than an isolated intervention. It followed the newly drafted National Security Strategy, 2025, which explicitly…
Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism – into the largest perspective possible. I suggest this…
One of the most challenging questions of democracy might indeed be: why did so many people vote for Adolf Hitler even though…
At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for…
The violence is interconnected. U.S. military forces attack Caracas to extract its president, killing as many as 80 people in the course…
I am not seeking a balance here. I make no claim to neutrality. I consciously reject the language of “both sides.” Because…
