Israel has come home to roost in Minnesota. The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul have become the Palestinians of Minnesota. The…
People are shocked at the cold-blooded killings of Alex Petti and Renee Nicole Good. They should be shocked. ICE shot Petti multiple…
I’ve lived in or near Burlington, Vermont for most of the last thirty-five years. In 1999 I wrote a piece for a…
Indonesia’s decision to join the Board of Peace (BoP) for Gaza is not a diplomatic adjustment. It is a moral collapse. It…
There is no shortage of lamentations, disbelief, and outrage in the Western media over the madness of the US government under Trump,…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Through the actions of regional and international hegemonic powers, the Middle East is being reshaped once again, a century after its last…
The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as…
The Middle East has been witnessing bloody nationalist conflicts for decades that have left millions of victims and displaced persons and massive…
Algeria has embarked on major and strategic undertakings: agricultural revitalization, ambitious housing programs, development of the South, and the strengthening of food…
A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza…
Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism – into the largest perspective possible. I suggest this…
One of the most challenging questions of democracy might indeed be: why did so many people vote for Adolf Hitler even though…
At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for…
The violence is interconnected. U.S. military forces attack Caracas to extract its president, killing as many as 80 people in the course…
I am not seeking a balance here. I make no claim to neutrality. I consciously reject the language of “both sides.” Because…
In 1945, two years prior to India’s independence, the current Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, was born into a working-class family…
Donald Trump’s Venezuela gambit signals far more than an isolated intervention. It followed the newly drafted National Security Strategy, 2025, which explicitly…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal…
By destroying facilities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, Israel has done more than demolish…
James Douglass, longtime antinuclear activist and author of the bestselling JFK and the Unspeakable, has written his life’s work. Martyrs to the…
Australia has entered one of those rare diplomatic moments when grief at home collides with moral judgment abroad, and when a single…
Facing the strategic challenges in Algeria’s Southwest — water security, sustainable resource management, territorial stability, and socio-economic development — it is essential…
In November of last year, in an egregious abuse of defamation law, former progressive journalist (and current right wing influencer) Matt Taibbi…
Twenty four years ago I wrote an essay titled “Resurrect the R Word.” To many people back then revolution meant chaos, violence,…
Estimates of the human cost of the unrest vary dramatically; U.S.-based monitors such as HRANA report at least 2,571 people killed, while…
The past year has completely discredited any claim that choosing between the Democratic and Republican parties would be merely a matter of “pick your…
On a sunny and modestly warm day in mid-November, I have a clear view of the San Rafael Valley from high in…
Modern history is replete with events so extraordinary, aberrant, revolting, and surprising that one feels like exclaiming: how is this possible!? Normally,…
On a cold January morning, a small group of visitors walks through a National Park, expecting to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s…
Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law,…
Everyone wants a good future for their children, grandchildren and students. Most would say a better future. A quality education. Good work…
WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to decide that a government that purports to represent the union of…
Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with…
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail From January 5-7 I…
Millions of Americans have taken to the streets to resist Trump’s hijacking of democracy. That’s a start, but it’s not enough. Our…
We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but…
What happens when a political outsider acts as an unsanctioned auditor of the system? Trump’s presidency exposes weaknesses in American democracy that…
If Gaza’s reconstruction is mishandled, it will not only fail millions of Palestinians — it will accelerate the unravelling of the global…
President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed…
In April 2023, a war broke out in Sudan between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia. It is estimated…
Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump’s clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland “by hook or by…
During seemingly civilised bilateral trade talks in Beijing, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat across from Chinese president Xi Jinping and…
On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts,…
Al Polk landed a job at a cutting-tool plant in his early 20s and then promptly started paying Social Security taxes—every week,…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
The Islamic Republic of Iran has long been accustomed to challenges, relentless pressure and widely believed misrepresentations about it. As the current…
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following…
Fascists and various authoritarian personality types have a proclivity for playing the victim. Anyone who calls into question their brutal tactics is…
