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…
On 5 March 2025, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi stepped down as chief of the general staff of the Israeli military. He had…
In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries…
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…
“The Democratic Party’s failure to address the cost of living crisis, its refusal to maintain the expanded pandemic safety net, and its continued…
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…
The South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, left Washington D.C. on March 21 after Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone is a harrowing account of life in Gaza as seen through the eyes of Palestinian children. It provides…
Understanding and Changing “Philosophers,” the young Karl Marx wrote, “have tried to understand history; the point is to change it.” I’ve long…
It is crucial for any American administration to recognize that, regardless of political agendas, the views of the American public regarding the…
In 1788, a year before the United States Constitution became the law of the land, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers…
On 18 March 2025, Israel unilaterally broke the ceasefire agreement and bombed several sites in Gaza. It is estimated that at least…
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. Bob Marley, Jamaican composer…
While the US has initiated preliminary negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, there are again warnings in Europe and the US that this…
Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without equivocation that…
Resistance to Trumpest Fascism grows. Discussions, phone calls and emails, meetings, rallies, marches, and soon occupations and encampments. Desires, demands, confrontations, and…
All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or extremism establishes a…
The website of a certain pan-Arab media organization seems fixated on translating, commenting, or briefing its audience on everything that US and…
The major weapon of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime is fear that causes people to be intimidated into silence and submission. The regime is…
On March 15, 2025, in a new executive order, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that endows the president with…
The attempted deportation of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, met with dramatic and widespread resistance, is one of the first, high profile, specifically…
On Friday, with another government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats, and their feckless leader, Chuck Schumer, fully folded to the Republican Party’s bullying…
As Israel’s war on Gaza escalates and the occupation of Palestine deepens, international solidarity has surged. Mass protests, boycott campaigns, and public…
At the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski was the only European to applaud the speech by…
The title of an astonishing article from one of the oldest and most influential Jewish publications in the U.S., The Forward, reads:…
Lost amidst the firehose of lies uttered by Donald Trump at his address before Congress March 4, was a New Mexico Democratic congresswoman’s succinct…
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail,” warns a timeless Chinese proverb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however,…
Pop open those bottles of chilled champagne. The United States of America is now in the same exclusive company as the Democratic…
As chants of ‘No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!’ echoed through downtown Manhattan on 10 March 2025, I spoke to a person named…
On 27 January 2025, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians left their temporary shelters in southern Gaza and marched en masse to the…
In 1989, one-third of the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil, lived in impoverished regions on the fringes of the city, cut off from sanitation, clean water,…
At times like these—who am I kidding, when were there times like these?—one wants to stay in bed, bury one’s head, dream…
During his address to Congress on March 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump faced brief heckling from Democratic Representative AI Green and…
How much joy is in your life these days? How much play in your resistance to all the fear, repression, violence, burnout,…
