In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob…
Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with…
On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index Report. For the first…
Zohran Mamdani, who describes himself as a “democratic socialist”, has won the New York City mayoral elections. He is a vocal critic…
The crises of the modern world are multilayered: We are witnessing economic collapses, ecological destruction, and societal disintegration. Simultaneously, state violence, militarization,…
There is a painful truth in Balochistan that rarely reaches the outside world. Families who barely survive on low incomes still gather…
The Epstein list occupies a peculiar position in the contemporary political imagination: it is at once a genuine artifact of predatory criminality…
On Thursday dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in the north…
Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy,…
As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the…
“Down with communism,” they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist…
The United States’ decision to welcome Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (leader of the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS) into the White…
The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the Republicans…
The nuclear weapons thriller “A House of Dynamite,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, depicts the catastrophic failure of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles to shoot…
Across Europe, “far-right” parties are gaining power and steering the political climate. On the road to the European Union, parties once grounded…
In the Global South, climate summits arrive like monsoons – heavy with promise, quick to pass. We gather each year to count pledges…
Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the…
Since February 19, a battle has raged over who pays taxes to Pretoria and for what, a technical and political fight about…
The imperialist exploitation of West Asia that accelerated after the First World War has never ceased. The effects on the region have…
History sometimes fits into a single scene, a single frame. In that frame, the entire contradiction, the entire hypocrisy of an era,…
There is a peculiar, and telling, absurdity to the coverage of the Trump Administration’s agreement between Israel and Hamas. After entering office,…
Ever since feudal peasants were converted into factory workers, academics have tried to figure out not just what “work” under the often…
In late 2022, RootsAction, the organization where I serve as political director, called for Joe Biden not to run for re-election. We…
Picture 1952 Toronto: An Italian baker, still called “enemy alien,” scrapes $500 and opens a shop on College Street. Milk: 24¢ a…
Now who doesn’t know that Donald Trump’s mission in Presidency is to stop all wars. Which is why he seems poised to…
In late October 2025, in the Zabjelo district of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, a serious stabbing incident triggered a wave of…
Young, intelligent, talented, energetic, handsome, charismatic, a very good speaker, a hard worker, a skilled communicator, and so on. The media in…
Edwin Sanchez had the seniority he needed to bid for a higher-paying position in the control room at the oil refinery in…
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow…
The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes. On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about…
Everywhere you look, the United States is at war– at home, through military occupation of cities, institutional violence, and state-sanctioned kidnappings, and…
Thousands of youth delegates at COP30, like me, are gathering to push governments to act, not just talk, on the climate crisis.…
On October 29, just before meeting with China’s President XI Jinping, President Trump posted on the right-wing social media network Truth Social…
In October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces militia stormed the city of El Fashir in Darfur, Sudan, after more than a year…
The Syrian civil war (2011 –…) is an arena of deep structural and ideological conflicts that transcend traditional political analyses. Far beyond…
To understand a person is sometimes to hold onto the sentence they left behind: “The thought that if I fall as a…
Much has been written about happiness. Encyclopedias of advice, viral think pieces, TED Talks, Instagram affirmations—all converge on a single premise: that…
The more recent history of strikes in Germany dates back to 1945 with the victory over Nazism. Yet many strikes quickly came…
As typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi, internationally) left over 200 Filipinos dead while affecting nearly 2 million people, President Marcos Jr declared “a state…
When I sat down to write this piece, I wrestled with how to begin. Should I start with something clever? A historical…
Days ago, the RSF militia committed a heinous massacre in Elfashir; thousands were killed in one day, including patients at a hospital,…
There is a deepening crisis across Africa. In Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya, the Congo, Swaziland, Cameroon and elsewhere, governments and armed forces backed…
It has been more than three weeks since the massacre in Muridke, and yet, like every other atrocity in Pakistan’s recent history,…
Interim judgment. Are you nervous? Or are things getting better? Who is winning? I refer to “him and his” versus “you and…
In the face of the international legal and political systems’ paralyzing silence and utter failure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide…
On November 4, New York City voters delivered a resounding YES vote to elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor of the largest US…
In August 2024, the UAE decided to suspend 32 gold refineries and also announced the requirement for due diligence regulations for gold…
With the neo-fascist AfD overtaking – or at least matching – Germany’s traditional conservatives, Merz’s CDU, in recent public polling, a renewed…
Social freedom is not merely a historical process, but the re-establishment of the human mind, its moral coordinates, and its existential horizon.…
Invading armies can topple a state, but republics are often undone from within—by the neglect of those sworn to their care. Rome,…
