The following is a talk prepared for the “Stop Trump and for Mutual Aid Rally”, put on by Evergreen Resistance, part of…
Look closely, and it becomes hard to justify. It is increasingly clear that the Biden Administration made a series of policy decisions…
Act 1: US and El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Man No disgraceful act of the Trump administration is more dangerous than…
The Future Hope column below was published on July 5, 2020. It is essentially a review of the book, “Citizen Tom Paine,”…
The world is on the highway to climate hell that will make Dante’s Inferno, Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal, and the movie Come…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few remaining…
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often…
Mainstreamcommentators acknowledge that the second Trump administration is authoritarian or right populist, but can’t bring themselves to use the term fascist. Like…
The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value. This drive to ‘civilise’ public discourse has been…
There are hundreds if not tens of thousands of historical examples of the plight of organized labor, radical and otherwise. Some are…
In cordial dialog with Jeffrey D. Sachs I have written several texts about the transitional society we are in. Whenever I do,…
Imagine you are about to crack open a new book and begin reading. The opening sentence goes like this: “It was the…
The American Federation of Labor (AFL), and later the AFL-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) have carried out their own foreign policy since…
The recent attack on the Jaffar Express by Baloch armed fighters once again exposed the fragility of the Pakistani state’s control over…
In January 2025, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-largest country by population (282 million) with the seventh-largest Gross Domestic Product by purchasing power…
In the months leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, there was a great deal of hyperventilation in Europe among top…
§0. This article comes paired with its counterpart on climate-informed class politics. It can be read as a prequel to it or…
The “Hands Off” demonstrations on April 5 reached Idaho and Montana—two very pro-Trump states. Over 4,000 people turned out in Missoula (pop.…
§0. This article comes paired with its counterpart on class-informed climate politics. It can be read as a prequel to it or…
Your community needs leaders who care about the environment. As climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet’s health, we…
In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only…
The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of…
In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of…
Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation…
“Ironically, it was the US under President Trump which has broken with the US national security establishment’s bi-partisan strategy of incremental encirclement…
On February 22, 2024, China’s Ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. His testimony, like that of a number of…
Whilst there has been much discussion in the media in the past month on the re-militarization of Europe, there is conversely an…
The easy answer to this question would be to say that we are in a time of transition. After all, all eras…
The phrase “civil war” is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli…
Since Trump was inaugurated and brought in billionaire oligarch Elon Musk and his hacker team to do a wrecking operation on many…
On March 19, 2025, the Inspector General of the German Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer, and the professor of international politics and military expert…
About ten years ago, I wrote an article titled Garbage Rises with which I meant to discuss the god awful reality of…
Pakistan’s escalating repression in Balochistan, particularly against the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) and other activists, has laid bare the state’s shift towards…
“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San…
Driven by geopolitical interests and the scramble for resources, the Ukrainian conflict has already claimed countless lives and displaced millions. The idea…
Unfortunately, the sad reality is that, thanks above all to Trump and his closest associates, the specter of Hitler is once again hovering…
Recent news reports brought to my attention something that I completely missed when it first happened almost two months ago: JD Vance…
Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New…
The book under review, by Dr. Eve Ewing of the University of Chicago, is a manifesto arguing for educational abolitionism: abolishing the…
For several years now, a phrase has been recurrent in French public debate, used to discredit discussions on discrimination: “anti-white racism.” It…
In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global…
The months-long frenzy surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election both masked and underscored the presence of a very worrisome elephant in the…
In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell…
The arrival of COVID-19 in the United States kicked off an ongoing period of job insecurity within the media industry. In April…
What can ordinary, busy people do about a U.S. government and society quickly swinging toward fascism? What do we know from the…
Robert W. McChesney was a leading voice and a precious colleague in the battle for a more democratic media system, and a…
President Donald Trump promised to unleash mass deportations on immigrants during his presidential campaign. But he has gone much further, with the…
In September 2024, a well-known media outlet from Albania reached out to me for my perspective on a recent €2.7 billion deal…
“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straightjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of…
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture…
