In a tough and complex world, people tending to the left side of the political spectrum are often accused of starry-eyed naïveté when…
In 2023, mechanical engineers – members of the Swedish Industrifacket Metall (IFM) union – dared to walk out of a Tesla repair…
Sometimes, walking around the concrete jungle of Puebla city, in central Mexico, the only trees I see are the hardy, invasive ones…
While the original whitewashing was simply the painting of a surface – such as a house – with a lime-based mixture for…
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There is a publishing house in Germany called Unrast Verlag that recently came to my attention. From its web site, I think…
On Sunday, April 12, Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech reflecting on his first one hundred days as New York City’s mayor. His…
The first face-to-face high-level talks between the US and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both sides put forward…
One of the most influential interpretations of 20th-century fascism is that fascism was a rebellion against the secularism of the modern era,…
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has strongly criticized the Marcos Jr. administration and the US on plans to construct…
After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is more fragile than ever, and now seems…
As Cuba teeters on the brink of an escalating US assault, my thoughts drift back to a trip my wife and I…
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Corporate media prefer to talk about Donald Trump at a daily rate that has long surpassed other entertainers: the war of the…
Prefatory Note: Two Texts evant to Ongoing US/Israel War Against Iran in the context of a failing Ceaefire Agreement. Iran’s Conditions and Declaration…
Reasonable people wonder if it was a coincidence the escalation (and now fragile ceasefire) of the massively unpopular, senseless, illegal US-Israeli war…
On April 7, the Prime Minister of Pakistan posted on X a call for an ‘extension of the deadline,’ following Donald Trump’s…
Flotillas have historically been fleets of military vessels—tools of empire designed for swift offensive or defensive operations at sea. The images they…
Israel’s latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut…
Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon’t stand in the doorwayDon’t block up the hall… Bob Dylan A two-week truce. We’ve temporarily slipped from…
After losing the 16 November 2025 referendum—when the Ecuadorian people rejected the government’s four questions, including the one that opened the door…
It’s quite remarkable how unaware most liberals and Democrats are about their own party’s facilitation of Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaigns, and the…
“It is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in…
The United States has agreed with Iran to cease hostilities for two weeks. The illegal US and Israeli imposed war has not…
As a citizen of the United States – a collection of isolated individuals who have unconditionally surrendered to The Fascist States of…
Israel tortured a one-year-old baby. They burned him with cigarettes and drove nails through his feet as a form of torture during…
Major unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and citizen groups like Indivisible and Public Citizen are calling…
A ceasefire can stop planes from flying and missiles from landing. It cannot restore the security order that failed to prevent the…
On April 1st, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the class-action lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright…
From the raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at U.S. airports to the approval of the controversial Return Regulation in…
The knives are out—and this time, they are not aimed at Tehran, but at Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the ever…
In spring 2026, elections to German works councils took place in which workers voted as workers and not as trade union members…
The moment a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran was announced—brokered through Pakistani mediation on April 7—Iran declared that Lebanon was…
After threatening to destroy Iran’s civilization ‘for now and ever’, Trump announced a tentative ceasefire with Iran and temporary ceasefire of mutual…
When I was in High School, I used to wonder how did the German people put up with Hitler and his regime?…
On March 30, 2026, the Israeli Knesset passed a law imposing death by hanging on Palestinians convicted by military courts in cases…
Last August, in a piece published on ZNet, I argued that Trump is a fascist, but more specifically, borrowing from the language…
One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a mark of moral sophistication—is the tendency to place the…
A pox of optimism has infected climate reporting in late years, and one of the Iran War’s unremarked casualties is that it…
America was formally born on July 4, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but the USA was not born until September 17,…
It was the largest protest in US history. More than 3300 rallies in all 50 states and more on every continent across the globe. It’s an understatement…
When the US backed dictator of Iran, Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979 and the Islamic Republic led by the…
Income inequality has been escalating in this country since around 1980 and continues to get worse. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing since…
China’s conduct in the UN Security Council often disappoints those who expect it to openly confront what they see as an unrestrained…
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…
