§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…
Pakistan’s escalating repression in Balochistan, particularly against the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) and other activists, has laid bare the state’s shift towards…
“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San…
Driven by geopolitical interests and the scramble for resources, the Ukrainian conflict has already claimed countless lives and displaced millions. The idea…
Unfortunately, the sad reality is that, thanks above all to Trump and his closest associates, the specter of Hitler is once again hovering…
Recent news reports brought to my attention something that I completely missed when it first happened almost two months ago: JD Vance…
Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New…
The book under review, by Dr. Eve Ewing of the University of Chicago, is a manifesto arguing for educational abolitionism: abolishing the…
For several years now, a phrase has been recurrent in French public debate, used to discredit discussions on discrimination: “anti-white racism.” It…
In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global…
The months-long frenzy surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election both masked and underscored the presence of a very worrisome elephant in the…
In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell…
The arrival of COVID-19 in the United States kicked off an ongoing period of job insecurity within the media industry. In April…
What can ordinary, busy people do about a U.S. government and society quickly swinging toward fascism? What do we know from the…
Robert W. McChesney was a leading voice and a precious colleague in the battle for a more democratic media system, and a…
President Donald Trump promised to unleash mass deportations on immigrants during his presidential campaign. But he has gone much further, with the…
In September 2024, a well-known media outlet from Albania reached out to me for my perspective on a recent €2.7 billion deal…
“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straightjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of…
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture…
In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is important to understand that this…
George Packer recently wrote an Atlantic piece that cleverly situated the Trump regime within a familiar Orwellian framework. According to Packer, Lindsey Graham, Mike…
Many Americans fear that the institutions protecting our democracy are under threat. Democracy originated in the city-states of ancient Greece, where citizens…
Sixteen years after the fateful day the United Nations (UN) charter was promulgated in San Francisco, President John F. Kennedy memorably intoned…
The Peoples’ Platform Europe took place in Vienna from February 14-16, 2025. Under the motto “Reclaim the Initiative”, it brought activists from across Europe…
In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries…
On 5 March 2025, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi stepped down as chief of the general staff of the Israeli military. He had…
“The Democratic Party’s failure to address the cost of living crisis, its refusal to maintain the expanded pandemic safety net, and its continued…
Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and…
One thing seems clear to me about these talks: Vladimir Putin is in an enviable position to get what he wants—maybe not…
There was a time when the university was imagined as a space of intellectual risk, where thought could move freely, unrestricted by…
My journey into the realm of people’s history began during my teenage years when I first read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History…
How we lost our rights in the kingdom of Musk-Trump As a person who consumes large amounts of information about peace and…
US Corporate Class Delight The oligarchs are laughing. The corporatists are laughing. They are laughing at working people as the big con…
Only a few weeks ago, the orange monster of the Unites States was speaking in the very place his Neo-Nazi thugs wanted…
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been well known for its socialist feminism – the politics that helped to create a…
