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…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trump’s leading opponent and the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee.…
“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a…
We seem to be in the midst of a widening crack in the edifice that supports US ideology – denial. Even the…
History has a long memory in Jakarta. In 1955, as newly decolonised nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia placed Palestine at the moral…
In a discussion with one of my Danish leftist-oriented friends about the situation in Syria, I told her: What is happening now…
Israel’s longstanding campaign to lure Washington into war with Iran seems to have fizzled once again—for now, anyway. But in their attempt…
“The […] United States working class is [in] very many important respects […] the most progressive working class of the world.” Leon…
On 5 February 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) — the last remaining arms-control pact between the United States and Russia —…
Like many Americans right now, I want to believe that the 2026 and 2028 elections will offer a reprieve from the chaos…
I have a question I never imagined I’d have to ask in the United States. Not, “Are you worried about where the…
So it has come to this: ICE Gestapo agents claim, without a judge’s order, they are permitted to enter houses at their…
Israel has come home to roost in Minnesota. The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul have become the Palestinians of Minnesota. The…
People are shocked at the cold-blooded killings of Alex Petti and Renee Nicole Good. They should be shocked. ICE shot Petti multiple…
I’ve lived in or near Burlington, Vermont for most of the last thirty-five years. In 1999 I wrote a piece for a…
Indonesia’s decision to join the Board of Peace (BoP) for Gaza is not a diplomatic adjustment. It is a moral collapse. It…
There is no shortage of lamentations, disbelief, and outrage in the Western media over the madness of the US government under Trump,…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Through the actions of regional and international hegemonic powers, the Middle East is being reshaped once again, a century after its last…
The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as…
The Middle East has been witnessing bloody nationalist conflicts for decades that have left millions of victims and displaced persons and massive…
Algeria has embarked on major and strategic undertakings: agricultural revitalization, ambitious housing programs, development of the South, and the strengthening of food…
A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza…
One of the most challenging questions of democracy might indeed be: why did so many people vote for Adolf Hitler even though…
At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for…
The violence is interconnected. U.S. military forces attack Caracas to extract its president, killing as many as 80 people in the course…
I am not seeking a balance here. I make no claim to neutrality. I consciously reject the language of “both sides.” Because…
In 1945, two years prior to India’s independence, the current Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, was born into a working-class family…
Donald Trump’s Venezuela gambit signals far more than an isolated intervention. It followed the newly drafted National Security Strategy, 2025, which explicitly…
Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism – into the largest perspective possible. I suggest this…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal…
By destroying facilities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, Israel has done more than demolish…
James Douglass, longtime antinuclear activist and author of the bestselling JFK and the Unspeakable, has written his life’s work. Martyrs to the…
Australia has entered one of those rare diplomatic moments when grief at home collides with moral judgment abroad, and when a single…
Facing the strategic challenges in Algeria’s Southwest — water security, sustainable resource management, territorial stability, and socio-economic development — it is essential…
In November of last year, in an egregious abuse of defamation law, former progressive journalist (and current right wing influencer) Matt Taibbi…
Twenty four years ago I wrote an essay titled “Resurrect the R Word.” To many people back then revolution meant chaos, violence,…
The past year has completely discredited any claim that choosing between the Democratic and Republican parties would be merely a matter of “pick your…
On a sunny and modestly warm day in mid-November, I have a clear view of the San Rafael Valley from high in…
Modern history is replete with events so extraordinary, aberrant, revolting, and surprising that one feels like exclaiming: how is this possible!? Normally,…
On a cold January morning, a small group of visitors walks through a National Park, expecting to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s…
Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law,…
Everyone wants a good future for their children, grandchildren and students. Most would say a better future. A quality education. Good work…
Estimates of the human cost of the unrest vary dramatically; U.S.-based monitors such as HRANA report at least 2,571 people killed, while…
WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to decide that a government that purports to represent the union of…
Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with…
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail From January 5-7 I…
Millions of Americans have taken to the streets to resist Trump’s hijacking of democracy. That’s a start, but it’s not enough. Our…
