This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic…
Jeff Goodell’s latest book is a detailed examination of heat and its dangers on a warming planet. It deserves wide readership. Presented…
Every year the President of the country makes all kinds of promises in the State of the Nation Address. Every year the…
Chicago, Illinois, has a rich history of grassroots organizing. Notable examples are the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council’s efforts to improve local economic…
Amid the military posturing, economic sanctions, and political power struggles shaping the U.S.-China rivalry, intellectual property (IP) disputes remain a major battleground. In…
Exceptionalism is a major root of evil. If you can say with a straight face that one’s people are the quintessence of…
The administrative spectacle now unfolding exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general…
I am trying to get my head around our new reality: a private citizen who happens to be the richest man in…
From preparing to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labeling cartels “terrorist organizations,” Trump has been using both language and policies to…
It is on. Elon is burrowing into a hostile takeover of the US government, regulations, and economy. He is clearly quite used…
Panelists highlight the key dangers for immigrants in Trump’s new administration, underlying causes of migration, vision and strategy for what a truly…
On Friday, November 22nd 2024, a coalition of eight Slovenian non-profit NGOs and the Slovenian movement for the rights of Palestinians filed…
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit…
In the opening days of his second presidency, the malignant, orange-sprayed fascist maniac Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump has, in the words…
Change happens The generation born between 1940 and 1970 is fortunate. We have witnessed significant physical, cultural, and political changes throughout our…
A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to gain independence and take…
Serbia is boiling with anti-government protests. The protests were initiated by Serbian university students, who are organized in an anarcho-syndicalist manner, where…
Even those of us who have long emphasized the importance of the Palestinian people’s voice, experience, and collective action in Palestinian history…
Never has so much been written in so little time about the inauguration of a country’s president and his first week in…
And now Trump consciousness purports to claim – or reclaim – control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one…
The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redemption by creation of the Jewish nationalist State of…
The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events. The current analysis…
The Israel-Hamas cease-fire has brought a measure of relief to Israelis and Palestinians. But everyone recognizes that what comes next is the…
Ever since Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine I’ve been thinking about the issue of the right of nations to self-determination. I’ve done…
The following is the English translation of an interview that the Greek newspaper Epohi conducted with William I. Robinson and published on…
Trump, Musk, Vance, Kennedy and the rest of our new government’s murderous members now oversee political life in the USA. Things were…
Review of The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth by Andreas Malm (Verso, 2025) Andreas Malm–the author of the…
In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military…
The world has focused its attention on the humanitarian pause and exchange of prisoners in Gaza that began on 19 January. Meanwhile,…
War, Global Capitalism and Resistance: Selected Writings by William I. Robinson, London: Resistance Books, 152 pages. Introduction William I. Robinson’s War, Global…
Trump’s proposals to radically transform much of US economic and social policy are being rapidly rolled out during the first week of…
“Under racial capitalism, land is treated as nothing more than a natural resource to be extracted, and violence is committed against the…
This is a transcribe of a talk given by Peter Bohmer at the People’s March in Olympia, Washington State on January 18,…
Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the…
My father was a family doctor in the mid-twentieth century whose main political issue was socialized medicine, which he preached against to…
ME: Could we start with a brief introduction. Can you tell the reader a bit about yourself, your age, background, where you…
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the…
Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed…
As the Trump administration, led ironically by former Obama administrator, and new “border czar” Thomas Homan, prepares its Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly…
“Pound of flesh.” “Sorry? You what?” “Pound of flesh; Jewish bloke; obvious anti-Semitic trope.” Recounted in If…Stands Up (Verso), that brief exchange…
In the organizing meetings over the last two months leading up to and at yesterday’s positive March of Resistance in Newark, NJ,…
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social…
Recent headline-making events in two of America’s most famous party-hardy cities sent us back to our well-thumbed copy of Touching the Dragon, a…
Qatari mediators’ announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza to begin on 19 January ending the 15-month genocide inflicted on the besieged and…
Most people perceive Donald Trump as a terrible individual, a terrible politician, and a terrible president. From a European standpoint, Donald Trump…
A plausible case can be made that in 2025 there has never before been a greater need for consciousness raising and engagement…
Donald Trump has always maintained that the laws don’t apply to him. But he failed to convince New York Supreme Court Justice…
Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880-1956, Ph.D. Yale University) spent the bulk of his academic career at New York University where he was on…
Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, wisely wrote in 1789: “Whenever the people are well informed, they may be trusted with their own…
