The second batch of documents allegedly belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire convicted child abuser, serial rapist, and human trafficker whose suicide…
This is a follow up post to, “A Response To Greg Grandin’s Chomsky-Epstein Article” published on Feb 6, 2026. Valeria Chomsky’s statement…
While Donald Trump’s approval ratings have taken a nosedive in the last few months Republican leadership, especially in the solidly red state…
The Epstein Files do not warrant shock and horror. A quiet nod of the head along with maybe a lopsided, very restrained…
The intellectual framework of new socialism gains meaning through the transcendence of the three main pillars of modernity: statism, industrialism, and hierarchical…
The year was 1972, President Nixon was running for reelection; violent crime was rampant, as poorly trained police officers were outgunned by…
As many are aware, my husband, Noam Chomsky, now 97, is confronting significant health challenges after suffering a devastating stroke in June…
As did many fellow Americans, I chuckled when President Trump announced the creation of the U.S. Space Force on December 20, 2019.…
On Feb. 1, 2026, Indonesia condemned Israel’s latest airstrike on Gaza after at least 32 civilians were killed. The Ministry of Foreign…
On a cold, freezing, windy, and snowy morning in late January 2026, Germany’s nationwide collective bargaining for public transport workers started under…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has made headlines this winter by vowing to defeat a proposal for a one-time 5 percent tax on…
The investment of American governmental and corporate forces (systems) in defending and/or downplaying Israeli genocide has numbed the conscience and accelerated ferocity…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum…
Let me begin with a few general statements about the latest attacks on Chomsky. It is a sickening spectacle to witness private…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to…
U.S. President Donald Trump has not shied away from admitting his thirst for Venezuelan oil. On 16 December 2025, in the leadup…
Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, Israel has killed over 500 Palestinians. But these lives – according to western…
In Central America there are 2 countries that have played an important role in international drug smuggling. Those 2 countries are Honduras…
As one of the most time-honored truths goes: wherever there is capitalism, there is labor, and wherever there is labor, there is…
Among the critical issues facing our country today, nuclear arms control is seldom top of mind for most people, understandably, given our…
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on January 29 that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Israel’s military, have for the first time accepted the Gaza Ministry…
Barely half a year after the Amazon boss’ lavish wedding in Venice in “The Great Gatsby” style, surrounded by 250 guests, just…
Last Sunday, I cheered on the Seahawks as they defeated the Rams to advance to the Super Bowl. But it felt strange…
As Thailand goes to the polls, three visions compete: one which experiments in strange new populist economics, one which critiques from the…
The attacks targeting the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah in Aleppo are not the products of instantaneous military developments or…
And here I am, an American, staring at the border again . . . and slowly coming to realize the paradox of…
Across the MENA region, governments are racing to secure water. Dams are raised, aquifers drilled deeper, desalination plants multiplied, and cross-border transfers…
Donald Trump is on the warpath again, threatening Greenland, Iran, Canada, and Cuba. Will he be TACO—Trump Always Chickens Out—or will he…
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…
