To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that…
Review of A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges (Seven Stories Press, 2025) Sometimes, living…
Sixty years after its independence, Algeria stands at a crossroads. Though it has broken the political chains of colonialism, it remains shackled…
“Rights are granted to those who align with power,” Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This poignant statement…
Nationwide — As International Workers’ Day approaches, the Labor for Palestine National Network, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network…
In 2022, Pope Francis created a will expressing his desire that just one word be inscribed on the stone marking his burial place: Franciscus. Franciscus,…
Growing up, I had virtually no contact with people who identified themselves as Catholics. Perhaps some of my friends and acquaintances in…
On 22 April 2025, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its annual World Economic Outlook report, which has a quiet but decisive subtitle: A Critical Juncture and…
After a White House meeting between Trump and Netanyahu, Netanyahu said, ‘We’re both united in the goal that Iran does not get…
We have been collectively mourning UnFreedom Day since 2006. This year we will be holding rallies and protests in three provinces to…
The ninety-day customs truce ‘graciously’ granted by Trump is rapidly expiring, placing European economies in a serious dilemma. A looming 20% tariff…
The starting point for any analysis of the shocking conjuncture of events now rocking the world – trade wars, genocide, fascism -…
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”Voltaire, Enlightenment author and philosopher (1694-1778) Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution,…
How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay…
Much to my astonishment, some voters thought Donald Trump might be a “peace president.” I never bought it, so won’t outline the…
“Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them…Most see their…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed…
Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025 Dear “Cesar,[1]” This May Day, as I march with my union, the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, I…
The following is a talk prepared for the “Stop Trump and for Mutual Aid Rally”, put on by Evergreen Resistance, part of…
Look closely, and it becomes hard to justify. It is increasingly clear that the Biden Administration made a series of policy decisions…
Act 1: US and El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Man No disgraceful act of the Trump administration is more dangerous than…
The Future Hope column below was published on July 5, 2020. It is essentially a review of the book, “Citizen Tom Paine,”…
The world is on the highway to climate hell that will make Dante’s Inferno, Ingmar Bergman’s Seventh Seal, and the movie Come…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few remaining…
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often…
Mainstreamcommentators acknowledge that the second Trump administration is authoritarian or right populist, but can’t bring themselves to use the term fascist. Like…
The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value. This drive to ‘civilise’ public discourse has been…
There are hundreds if not tens of thousands of historical examples of the plight of organized labor, radical and otherwise. Some are…
In cordial dialog with Jeffrey D. Sachs I have written several texts about the transitional society we are in. Whenever I do,…
Imagine you are about to crack open a new book and begin reading. The opening sentence goes like this: “It was the…
The American Federation of Labor (AFL), and later the AFL-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) have carried out their own foreign policy since…
The recent attack on the Jaffar Express by Baloch armed fighters once again exposed the fragility of the Pakistani state’s control over…
In January 2025, Indonesia – the world’s fourth-largest country by population (282 million) with the seventh-largest Gross Domestic Product by purchasing power…
In the months leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, there was a great deal of hyperventilation in Europe among top…
§0. This article comes paired with its counterpart on climate-informed class politics. It can be read as a prequel to it or…
The “Hands Off” demonstrations on April 5 reached Idaho and Montana—two very pro-Trump states. Over 4,000 people turned out in Missoula (pop.…
§0. This article comes paired with its counterpart on class-informed climate politics. It can be read as a prequel to it or…
Your community needs leaders who care about the environment. As climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet’s health, we…
In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only…
The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of…
In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of…
Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation…
“Ironically, it was the US under President Trump which has broken with the US national security establishment’s bi-partisan strategy of incremental encirclement…
On February 22, 2024, China’s Ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. His testimony, like that of a number of…
Whilst there has been much discussion in the media in the past month on the re-militarization of Europe, there is conversely an…
The easy answer to this question would be to say that we are in a time of transition. After all, all eras…
The phrase “civil war” is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli…
Since Trump was inaugurated and brought in billionaire oligarch Elon Musk and his hacker team to do a wrecking operation on many…
On March 19, 2025, the Inspector General of the German Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer, and the professor of international politics and military expert…
About ten years ago, I wrote an article titled Garbage Rises with which I meant to discuss the god awful reality of…
