It is hard to understand why Donald Trump is so anxious to acquire Greenland even if it takes military force. When he…
1. The Lesson of Venezuela At the dawn of an ordinary day in early January of this year, 2026, the world woke…
The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that…
My goal in this oddly titled and rather short episode is to suggest a near universally applicable strategic measuring stick for choosing…
The new year began on a very foreboding note. First was the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its President with…
Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters…
In a flagrant disregard for international law and national sovereignty, the Trump administration invaded and kidnapped Venezuela’s President Maduro and First Lady…
In the U.S., seventeen million people, across multiple generations, have a shared personal identity based on their past military service. About 1.3…
ICE’s servile savagery differs from conventional policing in degree, but not in kind. The same structural reasons that lead to brutality in…
There is a widening gap today between global possibilities and global realities. The possibilities are enormous, for―thanks to a variety of factors,…
There’s a scene playing out across American social media that should disturb anyone with a functioning conscience. A woman lies dead, killed…
Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite…
In the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, lawyer Celia Flores, neither the ‘rule of law’ (if ever relevant…
With the rapid advance of Germany’s extreme right and adjacent neo-Nazis, a serious challenge for Germany’s trade unions – organized within Germany’s…
January 3, 2026, should be the date to end all discussion: Trump’s raid on Venezuela should have clarified reality even to the…
The radical breakthrough quality of Abdullah Öcalan’s thought stems not only from exceeding the limits of the classical leftist paradigm but from…
CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans call on TikTokers across the world to flood the platform for Palestine to #TakeBackTikTok from…
The start of 2026 arrives less as a new beginning and more as the potent aftershocks of the many earthquakes we endured…
ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly detaining Native American citizens, and ignoring or refusing to treat Tribal ID cards as proof of…
The United States did not invent the concept of bombing civilians – that tradition originated with the Luftwaffe of Herman Goering and…
One of my kids recommended to me that I watch the program titled Justified. I was prejudiced against it because it appeared…
Across arid and semi-arid regions, the same paradox is unfolding. Groundwater levels are falling, droughts are intensifying, and yet cities and rural…
Last Saturday (January 3th), a massive US military attack, concentrating the largest naval aggressor force ever assembled in the Americas in the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing…
It is a belief held by most people in society that the internet is a novel danger. That it is a threat…
There is a simple but urgent issue to be dealt with as we grow dangerously close to another world war. I do not…
The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in…
Current developments in Venezuela may appear to be unfathomable—until one recalls the long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and the…
The Trump administration has suspended over $10 billion of federal childcare funds for five Democratic-led states over alleged fraud. So what if…
On January 3rd, the United States invaded and bombed Venezuela and abducted President Maduro and First Lady Flores. This violent act of…
As the Senate voted to advance a War Powers Resolution on Venezuela on January 8th, Republican Senator Susan Collins declared that she…
There is one crucial argument that the climate justice movement carried with it. For a brief period of time, it seemed like…
Yesterday [January 7] an American citizen in Minneapolis was gunned down by her own government. Think about that for a moment. The…
On the early morning of January 3, the United States government launched a massive attack on Caracas, Venezuela, and three of the…
For decades, Canada has carefully cultivated a global reputation for principle, human rights, and moral clarity. However, that image is now cracking,…
As Canada enters 2026, the New Democratic Party stands on the edge of irrelevance. In the April 2025 federal election, the NDP…
Charles Dickens wrote, “Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” It was an advisory. An attitude. Your neighbor might write, “Nothing…
In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were dragged from their bedroom and…
The illegality of US intervention in Venezuela has been amply cited with reference to its attacks on alleged drug boats, its declaration…
What happened in the early hours of January 3 in Caracas left the world stunned. But the strongest reason for astonishment is…
The arrest of the Venezuelan President—an act executed with the precision of a Hollywood thriller and the subtlety of a sledgehammer—marks a…
We live in an America where those who control the levers of power potentially have knowledge of almost everything about the ordinary…
The USA is descending into a state of general lawlessness, at home and abroad. From using domestic special ops paramilitary units (ICE)…
But why, in these dark times, attach so much importance to what the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, says and…
When does permissible strategic competition become illegitimate coercion, and when does state power begin to resemble organised crime? What is the Trump…
America’s close partnership with Israel has been costly. Tel Aviv’s expansionist policies in Palestine and pursuit of military dominance over its neighbors…
Late Friday night into early Saturday, I watched the news and scrolled through social media as reports of explosions in Caracas began to spread.…
From Ukraine to Venezuela, claims of sovereignty often conceal strategic self-interest, exposing how global norms are wielded selectively to justify power rather…
KEY TAKEAWAYS This Time, Merely Exiting the Litter Box Won’t Cut it The year 2026 commenced with a new war: the U.S.’…
On January 3, 2026, at two o’clock in the morning, the United States declared war on Venezuela by bombing several strategic sectors…
