My analysis of the beginnings of cracks in NATO had been published with a short delay, just enough to become obsolete. I pointed to…
If ever there was a sign that democracy in the United States is in dire straits, it was Congress’s rescission of $9…
Tensions increased in southern Syria as Israeli warplanes bombed the Ministry of Defence in Damascus, areas around the presidential palace, and villages in As-Suwayda…
Gaza is being starved – deliberately, with cruel intention and shocking inhumanity. The photos of skeletal children haunt me. At night when I close my…
Nations can only legitimately use violence to police their citizens if they are simultaneously empowering them with equitable shares in democracy. When…
Thirty years have passed since the first Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)…
I just got back from a quick visit to the KMU Labor Center in the Philippines in late June (2025). KMU, which…
On June 10th, dozens of masked ICE agents filed into the Glenn Valley Fords meatpacking plant in South Omaha. Omaha has a…
The deadly Texas floods have receded, leaving lost and shattered lives. Donald Trump tells us not to politicize the moment, with spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt calling…
Sumud, an Arabic word, embodies the ability to withstand hardship and maintain a sense of identity and purpose despite the challenges of…
Promoters of the Modern Colonial Propaganda No Scopus-listed scientific journal would ever publish the apparent pro-Israel propaganda advanced by journalists, pundits and…
Epstein. What can I say? How about nothing? Or how about Epstein was disgusting and Trump is Epstein writ large. Should we…
In 2022, Nazi-saluter Elon Musk opened his brand-new Tesla plant in the East-German town of Grünheide. Ever since, locals came to know…
In my forthcoming book, The Digital Wasteland, I make two broadly defined observations. First, our democracy is unravelling before our very eyes…
A must see for everyone concerned about the state of our Republic is Petra Costa’s 2024 documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics. Ms. Costa captures…
In January 2025, the price of coffee reached an “all-time high” for consumers in the United States; it is now poised to…
Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions by aiding Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) mass deportations — and…
At NATO’s recent summit in The Hague (24–25 June), alliance leaders triumphantly announced a historic decision: all members will increase military spending to…
Once Upon a Time There was a time not too long ago when American scientists and American research facilities were the envy…
Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut health…
Egyptian-born Omar El Akkad had studied in the United States and been 10 years a journalist when, in the summer of 2021,…
When media critic A.J. Liebling wrote in The New Yorker 65 years ago that “freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who…
During the 2024 US presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump presented himself as the anti-war option, vowing to end America’s “endless wars” and…
Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine’s future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the ‘day after’ its genocide…
Across the vast stretches of the Algerian Sahara, we are not lacking land, sunlight, or ancestral knowledge. What we lack is a…
Around the world, right-wing forces are scapegoating migrants for the devastation caused by capitalism and, in countries like South Africa, extreme corruption. …
At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive…
Escalating Settler Colonial Violence across the Occupied West Bank Since October 2023, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and Zionist settlers have killed…
Date: 14 July 2025 To: Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Trans Hex and SRK – [email protected] Subject: Objection to off-shore Prospecting…
For those of us in and around the trade union movement, Eric Blanc’s new book is an important contribution. He builds on…
For history’s arc to continue forward activists must stop Israel, stop Trump, speak, write, cogitate, organize, and collectively end fascism and then…
Since democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won a decisive victory over Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s June 24th Democratic mayoral primary, leading…
The soneta was born to hold what couldn’t be held. Now it holds up a mirror to empire and says: Look. See…
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, too many commentators in the international media continue to portray Donald Trump as eager for…
In 1949 the U.S. War Department changed its name. Branches of the armed forces were then administered under the new name Department…
On the 12th of July, 2025, a devastating act of Islamophobia unfolded in Piera, Spain. The Piera Mosque, a symbol of the…
In London, UK, last week, on a rare overseas trip, I attended the launch of a new campaign initiated by the Climate…
The global conjuncture we face may appear as mindboggling yet one way to piece together this “big picture” is to take a…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu geared up for what was intended as a triumphant visit to Washington, commencing on Monday, July…
“And now we ask: How can you eat, sleep, live? How guilty will you feel in your hearts if you do not…
While governments have committed to deliver on Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, inequalities, injustices and deadly divide between the Global North and…
I never imagined I would be forced to evacuate once again—especially not from Al-Mawasi, the area ironically designated as the “humanitarian zone.”…
Critical Mass Imagine a cartoon: Unarmed protesters surround a palace. Inside, the royal mathematician frantically scribbles numbers. Nearby, an unhappy king slumps…
I arrived in Doncaster on one of those sticky, humid Fridays where everything feels like it’s wearing a damp jumper. My journey…
The concert held by Croatian far-right pop singer Marko Perković – Thompson on July 5 at the Zagreb Hippodrome, which gathered approximately…
Digital Surveillance and Control Digital corporations, in collaboration with major powers, actively monitor individuals’ movements through smart devices and various communication tools.…
The Israeli government has just put forward one of the most brazenly genocidal schemes in modern memory—and unless we act immediately, the…
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine, stands as a testament to the…
Recent funding cuts on health, gender equality and human rights have given a sudden blow to a range of important services for…
After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds…
