We have two colliding forces – “end-of-the-world fascism” (EWF) and mass civil disobedience. Clearly, one will defeat the other. Right now the…
Coca-Cola Deutschland [Germany] has an almost 100-year-long history. It was first bottled in 1929 by the Vertriebsgesellschaft für Naturgetränke [Natural Drinks Company]…
I am tired of hearing about “protests” and “protesters.” Those terms sound whiney and powerless to me. “Protest” means to object, which…
This article is an adapted transcript from a talk given on October 10, 2025 (updated, October 28, 2025) for Economics for Everyone,…
“History did not begin on October 7th” said Ireland’s new President Catherine Connolly on her way to achieving the highest-ever vote share…
Trump’s ICE forces are facing militant and organized opposition everywhere they turn. A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot…
On 26 October, Caroline Willemen of Médecins Sans Frontières stated that Israel continues to use the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza…
This week began with the release of a report titled “Deciding to Win,” claiming to light the way “toward a common sense…
During the mid-term election next year, the Democratic Party hopes to regain lost ground on Capitol Hill by running a new crop of …
The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems…
Jeff Schuhrke’s latest book, No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, is a major contribution by a US…
My grandmother left Jerusalem in 1948 with a key that never found its lock again. She believed she would return before the…
In a 1988 lecture entitled ‘What is the writer saying?’, Anthony Burgess asked the audience to imagine literature as a kind of…
Disproportionate Force, Hidden Motives The Trump administration has now conducted 10 known strikes on boats off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts that…
On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan…
On October 9, when the Gaza ceasefire took effect, it was regarded as the first phase of a 20-point peace plan drafted…
For the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza, particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans,…
“I think we can do a lot, if a critical mass of organizations steps forward and develops a plan to go public…
While TikTok is better known for what The Atlantic recently called “Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok” – a scheme or scam to…
Three decades after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to function as the world’s most elaborate political…
I attended the downtown local No Kings Day festivities in Northampton, Massachusetts, and estimate that some 1,500 people came out. I liked…
Gender equality is enshrined in the opening preamble of United Nations Charter 1945. But despite progress and some setbacks, not a single…
Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly confirmed that he…
When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small…
A new story has emerged out of the ashes of Gaza. It is the narrative of a people who have fought bravely…
I am rarely surprised by anything Trump says anymore. There is no lie too transparent to stop him—remember “sunny” when it was…
On Friday the High Court in Pietermaritzburg delivered a landmark judgment in favour of Abahlali baseMjondolo, ruling that the KwaDukuza Municipality can…
It’s October 22nd 2025. The shine of the recent No Kings outpouring of resistance is still with us. And what a shine…
Norman Finkelstein has spent decades confronting moral compromise, exposing institutional hypocrisy, and refusing the seduction of comfort and civility in the face…
The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the…
A single, candid statement by US President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on October 9 may illuminate the true calculus…
When Donald Trump announced that he had helped broker an end to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza, it marked the achievement of a…
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run—dubbed Steadfast Noon—got…
In an era of economic contraction—marked by rising inequality, precarious gig work, and the hollowing out of local communities—traditional media often amplifies…
Slowly, a full picture of the devastation of Gaza by Israel is becoming clear. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released…
I sit here at my desk, looking out the window – and see someone walking through the parking lot. This is the…
When Donald Trump claimed that mothers taking Tylenol during pregnancy put their children at risk of autism, I didn’t just hear a reckless, unsubstantiated soundbite. I thought…
Capitalism is fast becoming so unpopular that the money-grubbing old autocrat in the White House wants to protect it by promising to…
Donald Trump is striving to leave his doctrine as his legacy to the world, which, as a guiding principle, seeks to reposition…
The steel-plate floors “absorb heat and radiate it to no end,” says Keenan Bell, explaining why temperatures in parts of the Bridgestone…
Many British might prefer fish & chips, Australians meat pie, Italians pizza, the Danish røde pølser, and Americans burgers—but Germany’s heart is…
Dina Boluarte’s removal from office is not a victory for the people, but an internal readjustment of power. Congress did not obey…
As a peace and disarmament activist for over four decades, I was conflicted about whether to see A House of Dynamite, director…
Perhaps ever since the Peasant Wars of 1525 – or at the very latest, since the Failed Revolution of 1918/19 – Germany’s…
On October 6th, 2025, the Palestine Action of South Sound (PASS), a Palestine Solidarity group in Olympia, Washington organized a gathering for its members.…
Ostensibly, the West is all for freedom and democracy. At least, as long as they won’t interfere with its geopolitics and material…
The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza…
You don’t have to be radical leftist to be concerned about the way Donald Trump and his MAGAs are threatening the well-being…
The assassination of political leaders, whether government officials or leaders of social movements, has been used since ancient times to achieve specific…
“Then they came for me . . .” I can only begin here, at the emotional knifepoint of the ongoing ICE news. ICE…
