As Canada enters 2026, the New Democratic Party stands on the edge of irrelevance. In the April 2025 federal election, the NDP…
Charles Dickens wrote, “Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” It was an advisory. An attitude. Your neighbor might write, “Nothing…
In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were dragged from their bedroom and…
The illegality of US intervention in Venezuela has been amply cited with reference to its attacks on alleged drug boats, its declaration…
What happened in the early hours of January 3 in Caracas left the world stunned. But the strongest reason for astonishment is…
The arrest of the Venezuelan President—an act executed with the precision of a Hollywood thriller and the subtlety of a sledgehammer—marks a…
But why, in these dark times, attach so much importance to what the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, says and…
We live in an America where those who control the levers of power potentially have knowledge of almost everything about the ordinary…
The USA is descending into a state of general lawlessness, at home and abroad. From using domestic special ops paramilitary units (ICE)…
When does permissible strategic competition become illegitimate coercion, and when does state power begin to resemble organised crime? What is the Trump…
America’s close partnership with Israel has been costly. Tel Aviv’s expansionist policies in Palestine and pursuit of military dominance over its neighbors…
Late Friday night into early Saturday, I watched the news and scrolled through social media as reports of explosions in Caracas began to spread.…
From Ukraine to Venezuela, claims of sovereignty often conceal strategic self-interest, exposing how global norms are wielded selectively to justify power rather…
KEY TAKEAWAYS This Time, Merely Exiting the Litter Box Won’t Cut it The year 2026 commenced with a new war: the U.S.’…
On January 3, 2026, at two o’clock in the morning, the United States declared war on Venezuela by bombing several strategic sectors…
I have met Maduro, Delcy Rodriguez too. And before them Chavez. I have walked around the streets of Caracas. Through other locales…
There is only one word to describe the US attacks on Venezuela. That word is criminal. It is the only word that describes the…
Imperialism has never limited itself solely to military occupations, economic plunder, or diplomatic bullying. Its true power lies in its ability to…
At the start of this year, it is clearer than ever that joy and hope are drifting apart. There is joy, but,…
I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and…
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year…
At the July 2025 launch of America’s AI Action Plan, President Trump said that the country is in a fast-moving competition to…
Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet…
What is commonly known as the labor market remains an inevitable feature of an economic system that converts everything into a commodity.…
Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon and marching his legion on Rome did not destroy the Roman Republic all by himself. The erosion…
Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased…
Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted…
In the Donald Trump era — praise be! — so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For…
It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But…
On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a…
Noam Chomsky has been in the news lately for titillating and unpleasant reasons. For me, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is relatively…
The world can become a gigantic garbage can. The world can become a liberatory laboratory of fulfillment. Which will it be? To…
Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Irish people have been pounding the streets week after week in solidarity with…
Translated article from the Swedish publication Magasinet Konkret. Organizing is – or should be – the core business of every labor union.…
On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white…
Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism…
To understand the historical blockage of the Left, one must first expose its internal contradictions. The Left claims to criticize the state…
Gary Stevenson has risen to fame on the back of his 2024 Sunday Times bestseller, Trading Game; an edgy rags to riches…
For anyone paying even modest attention to the current administration’s foreign policy posture, a Christmas Day bombing justified as “protecting Christians from…
Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip…
At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23…
The term ‘hypocrisy’ is the most convenient term, but certainly not the most apt to describe the inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song…
I hold joint US/German citizenship due to the historical fact that my maternal family was stripped of their German citizenship by The…
Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the…
The plan was to stand outside the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day with a large inflatable bomb. The protesters would…
Howard Zinn’s book on SNCC was written in 1964. Yet, here I am writing a review in 2025, a good 60 years…
Paul Wines helped to kick in the door of the warehouse and heard a sound like a freight train crashing through town.…
What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but…
A passage from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale haunts me often: “That was when they suspended the Constitution… There wasn’t even any rioting in…
One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a document titled…
