Introduction History teaches us that major social transformations have always occurred in the wake of two types of traumatic social upheavals: war…
The late John Pilger was an Australian-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. Pilger’s more than 60 documentary films can be seen on…
This past week was punctuated by a perfect storm of negative US economic reports and events. Together they mean the door to…
This August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000…
Why more about AI? Because, even with the ceaseless, stupendous mainstream hype about AI, most folks aren’t very clear about the situation.…
It has become abundantly clear that after 250 years, a second American revolution is necessary. Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration…
Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the…
“You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re…
Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then…
I rarely visit Rome without stopping at the Campo de’ Fiori to pay homage to Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher who, in…
On 16 June 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967,…
Originally economics, as it emerged as a distinct science by the end of the eighteenth century, had been the domain of freethinkers…
Ecocide and genocide are two faces of empire. Fossil-fueled capitalism drives both ecological collapse and violent repression. From Gaza to the Amazon,…
Harmon Dent’s congregation “adopted” an apartment building in Beaumont, Texas, and started handing out gift baskets, food, and other treats to the…
“Good Trouble Day” was July 17, 2025, the fifth anniversary of the death of Civil Rights Movement veteran John Lewis, who encouraged…
Proponents of the theory and praxis of social ecology – the holistic approach to reharmonizing society and nature originated by social theorist…
The commons refers to shared cultural and natural resources, such as air, water, and land, which are accessible to and protected by…
Moral injury is the social, psychological, and spiritual harm that arises from a betrayal of one’s core values, such as justice, fairness,…
So said Voltaire. Like many truisms that stand the test of time, this one often fades into the fog of war and…
In June 2025, while indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States were still underway, Israel followed soon by the U.S. launched…
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to…
The book The AI Con (written by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna) is a clearly-written and fairly concise examination of the reality…
Since fall 2023, Israel has engaged in genocidal atrocities in Gaza. So, why hasn’t the Genocide Convention been used to preempt the…
The Student Blockade Movement in Serbia emerged in the midst of a broader student, secondary school, and civic uprising, which erupted in…
The irony of current times is that despite the writing on the wall “health is a fundamental human right,” the ground reality…
What sparked me to write this article was the persistent and reductive narrative that resurfaced following the recent U.S.–Israel bombing of Iran.…
For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that…
The conflict that broke out in 2023 between the Sudanese national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia has turned the country…
The European Union (EU) and the U.S. administration have reached a deal on international trade. Is it a fair deal for both…
Since Israel attacked Iran in June, the opinion sections of the United States’ two biggest newspapers have been carrying water for Donald…
Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping…
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…
