Never has so much been written in so little time about the inauguration of a country’s president and his first week in…
The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redemption by creation of the Jewish nationalist State of…
The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events. The current analysis…
And now Trump consciousness purports to claim – or reclaim – control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one…
The Israel-Hamas cease-fire has brought a measure of relief to Israelis and Palestinians. But everyone recognizes that what comes next is the…
Ever since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine I’ve been thinking about the issue of the right of nations to self-determination. I’ve done…
The following is the English translation of an interview that the Greek newspaper Epohi conducted with William I. Robinson and published on…
Trump, Musk, Vance, Kennedy and the rest of our new government’s murderous members now oversee political life in the USA. Things were…
Review of The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth by Andreas Malm (Verso, 2025) Andreas Malm–the author of the…
In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military…
The world has focused its attention on the humanitarian pause and exchange of prisoners in Gaza that began on 19 January. Meanwhile,…
War, Global Capitalism and Resistance: Selected Writings by William I. Robinson, London: Resistance Books, 152 pages. Introduction William I. Robinson’s War, Global…
Trump’s proposals to radically transform much of US economic and social policy are being rapidly rolled out during the first week of…
“Under racial capitalism, land is treated as nothing more than a natural resource to be extracted, and violence is committed against the…
This is a transcribe of a talk given by Peter Bohmer at the People’s March in Olympia, Washington State on January 18,…
Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the…
My father was a family doctor in the mid-twentieth century whose main political issue was socialized medicine, which he preached against to…
ME: Could we start with a brief introduction. Can you tell the reader a bit about yourself, your age, background, where you…
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the…
Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed…
As the Trump administration, led ironically by former Obama administrator, and new “border czar” Thomas Homan, prepares its Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly…
“Pound of flesh.” “Sorry? You what?” “Pound of flesh; Jewish bloke; obvious anti-Semitic trope.” Recounted in If…Stands Up (Verso), that brief exchange…
In the organizing meetings over the last two months leading up to and at yesterday’s positive March of Resistance in Newark, NJ,…
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social…
Qatari mediators’ announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza to begin on 19 January ending the 15-month genocide inflicted on the besieged and…
Recent headline-making events in two of America’s most famous party-hardy cities sent us back to our well-thumbed copy of Touching the Dragon, a…
Most people perceive Donald Trump as a terrible individual, a terrible politician, and a terrible president. From a European standpoint, Donald Trump…
A plausible case can be made that in 2025 there has never before been a greater need for consciousness raising and engagement…
Donald Trump has always maintained that the laws don’t apply to him. But he failed to convince New York Supreme Court Justice…
Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880-1956, Ph.D. Yale University) spent the bulk of his academic career at New York University where he was on…
Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, wisely wrote in 1789: “Whenever the people are well informed, they may be trusted with their own…
Scales are conventions about proportionalities and the relationships between them. The idea of human scale is ancient and present in all cultures.…
On January 20th, 2025, the Presidential Inauguration will fall on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Reflections on King reveal truths on the…
While Trump multiplies his warmongering declarations against Panama, Greenland, Canada or the Palestinians, chancelleries and the international media limit themselves to talking…
Elon Musk spent more than a quarter billion dollars to back Trump and other MAGA Republican candidates. He did so not simply…
A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit…
President-elect Trump said on January 9th that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine.…
In a just society, every child would be received as a gift and supported to grow and flourish. However, young people in…
Early 2025 is already a tough time for those expecting the consolidation of a multipolar alternative to polycrisis-riddled, Western-dominated, neoliberal multilateralism. It…
Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated…
Donald Trump vowed to begin deporting undocumented migrants “on day one” of his administration, and day one is rapidly approaching. If Trump’s…
“I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man –…
Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military for about 35…
As President Biden greenlights another $8 billion in weapons to Israel in his last days in office and Secretary Blinken gives a…
[The following is a close transcript of the 319th episode of the podcast titled RevolutionZ.] Perhaps you are aware there is a…
Part 7 of this series contains the following chapters: 9. A Constructive Program for Social Self-Defense10. What Social Self-Defense Is Defending Defending…
5 January 2025 I adjusted my eyes. I wanted to know the time. Outside it is as dark as when I…
Regularly, Donald Trump is presented as a fascistic leader. Yet, he has no Italian-style Blackshirts roaming the streets and no Hitler-style SA…
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless…
