“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…
Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut health…
Egyptian-born Omar El Akkad had studied in the United States and been 10 years a journalist when, in the summer of 2021,…
When media critic A.J. Liebling wrote in The New Yorker 65 years ago that “freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who…
During the 2024 US presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump presented himself as the anti-war option, vowing to end America’s “endless wars” and…
Around the world, right-wing forces are scapegoating migrants for the devastation caused by capitalism and, in countries like South Africa, extreme corruption. …
Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine’s future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the ‘day after’ its genocide…
Across the vast stretches of the Algerian Sahara, we are not lacking land, sunlight, or ancestral knowledge. What we lack is a…
At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive…
Escalating Settler Colonial Violence across the Occupied West Bank Since October 2023, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and Zionist settlers have killed…
Date: 14 July 2025 To: Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Trans Hex and SRK – sleyde@srk.co.za Subject: Objection to off-shore Prospecting…
For those of us in and around the trade union movement, Eric Blanc’s new book is an important contribution. He builds on…
For history’s arc to continue forward activists must stop Israel, stop Trump, speak, write, cogitate, organize, and collectively end fascism and then…
Since democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won a decisive victory over Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s June 24th Democratic mayoral primary, leading…
The soneta was born to hold what couldn’t be held. Now it holds up a mirror to empire and says: Look. See…
