Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered the realm beyond industrial…
Courage is rarely convenient. Sometimes it is condemned. Ask Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. On March 16, 1968, Thompson, a young Army helicopter…
Let us compare how leading Nordic European papers report on the “capitulation plan” imposed on the US-subordinated state Ukraine, and the magnificent…
Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has…
For decades, women in Afghanistan have been among the first and easiest victims of fundamentalist fascism and imperialism. In every era and…
We celebrate the 47th anniversary of the official establishment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (November 27, 1978). The emergence of the…
The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having…
On October 21, Sanae Takaichi, the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was voted in as the 104th prime minister…
The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak…
A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and…
“How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child.” So King Lear teaches parents. I, unlike Lear, have…
Multiple international airlines have suspended flights to and from Caracas amidst a heightened US military presence in the Caribbean, after the US…
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction,…
Baristas have launched the largest strike in their company’s history and are standing firm until their demands are met. Thousands of baristas…
US President Donald Trump has authorised the USS Gerald R. Ford to enter the Caribbean. It now floats north of Puerto Rico, joining the USS Iwo Jima and…
Days ago, the RSF militia carried out a brutal massacre in Elfashir; thousands were killed based on their ethnic background in a…
Despite the false promises of neoliberal capitalism and its tireless ideological cheerleaders, capitalism has always coexisted with – and at times produced…
My 91-year-old grandmother has a litany of wise sayings, but one in particular always stayed with me. A few times after we…
Across the political spectrum – with alarm on the right and delight on the left – the display of warmth from President Trump toward Zohran Mamdani…
I sat on a bench on Houston Street on a busy NYC afternoon. I watched people funnel inside Russ & Daughters. They…
For more than three and a half years now, Ukraine – and with it the so-called ‘West’ – have been paralyzed by…
The global crisis of the 21st century is not merely a temporary geopolitical instability, but an ontological moment of disintegration where Capitalist…
Two of the most significant dates in my life as a progressive activist and organizer are April 4, 1968 and August of…
In a letter to Richard Nixon dated January 16, 1970, his domestic advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote the following regarding the White…
The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon city of…
This past week President Trump proposed a 28 Pt. plan to Russia and Ukraine as a basis for negotiations to end the…
We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from 12 to 16 November 2025, declare to the…
There’s a point in every crisis; housing, labour, democracy, take your pick – where you realise the system isn’t just broken, it’s…
11:30 a.m. New York | 4:30 p.m. London | 5:30 p.m. Paris | 6:30 p.m. Palestine PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY LEADERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS…
Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s…
I heard from a former client of mine that he abruptly learned of the government shutdown from the checkout person at the…
On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed by Trump…
The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing…
In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob…
Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with…
On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index Report. For the first…
Zohran Mamdani, who describes himself as a “democratic socialist”, has won the New York City mayoral elections. He is a vocal critic…
The crises of the modern world are multilayered: We are witnessing economic collapses, ecological destruction, and societal disintegration. Simultaneously, state violence, militarization,…
There is a painful truth in Balochistan that rarely reaches the outside world. Families who barely survive on low incomes still gather…
The Epstein list occupies a peculiar position in the contemporary political imagination: it is at once a genuine artifact of predatory criminality…
On Thursday dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in the north…
Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy,…
As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the…
“Down with communism,” they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist…
The United States’ decision to welcome Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (leader of the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS) into the White…
The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the Republicans…
The nuclear weapons thriller “A House of Dynamite,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, depicts the catastrophic failure of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles to shoot…
Across Europe, “far-right” parties are gaining power and steering the political climate. On the road to the European Union, parties once grounded…
In the Global South, climate summits arrive like monsoons – heavy with promise, quick to pass. We gather each year to count pledges…
Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the…
