Playing to one’s strengths is generally smart, but Mark Carney may come to regret convening the world’s wealthiest bankers in downtown Toronto.…
A few days ago, TIME revealed how an artificial intelligence system went out of control and attacked other systems. Days later, more…
In international relations, security is not an absolute. It is a relative calculation. For the Islamic Republic of Iran, a nuclear deterrence…
Donald Trump has built one of the most remarkable political careers in modern American history. For decades, he has cultivated an image…
In Fall 2025, I received a Title IX notice of investigation from the University of Massachusetts Amherst for alleged antisemitism. For pro-Palestine…
Pete Hegseth’s Department of War is building America’s largest Quantum Computing project right here on the Southside of Chicago, to the detriment…
Daniel Poneman, a former U.S. Secretary of Energy—a position that includes supervision of America’s nuclear weapons—gave a recent talk called “Prospects for…
“Politicians,” the vituperative satirist Auberon Waugh observed, “can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being…
It happened on 25 May 2020, in Minneapolis, USA. George Floyd (a Black man) was arrested on suspicion of attempting to pay…
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024…
Part 1: The Left Will Reemerge, Part 1: The Short Term Clarification Second Phase (2026–) The second phase is characterized by more…
The chapter from What Is To Be Undone that this last article addressing Marxism Leninism offers, like other chapters I have excerpted for the…
Western Sahara: Sovereignty in practice In October 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judged that fishing and trading…
One year ago, the Trump administration brought 800 National Guard troops to occupy the streets of Washington, D.C., part of the “Safe…
In times of crisis – which is pretty much all the time under capitalism – workers and trade unions are placed under…
Read the terms of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement signed at Al-Safa Palace, and the conventional knee-jerk instinct in security circles is…
That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951…
This article is adapted and expanded from a section of my forthcoming book, In Defense of Imperialism. The book examines imperialism not…
Economic Exploitation Last March, I wrote an essay providing evidence of the inherent exploitation and undemocratic constructs in our economic model burdening…
2026 could turn out to be the hottest year on record. Yet, climate change is now on the back burner while the…
Since the 1960s, Germany’s most powerful trade union – the two-million-member-strong IG Metall, or IGM – has locked its works councils, but…
Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s Gaza Plan The Trump-led Board of Peace claimed it had concluded an “historic” deal with Hamas and Israel under…
July 4th has come and gone. The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence turned out to be underwhelming. …
Security Pact or Capital Realignment? The defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan should not be read simply as a military…
The protracted slaughter in Gaza stands as one of the defining moral catastrophes of the modern era. With tens of thousands of…
The edifice complex of the Trump administration is proving to be an aggressive one. As with previous presidents, the current occupant is…
The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has…
The media spent a lot of time this summer examining whether a certain Maine oysterman and Marine veteran seeking federal employment should…
My mom was a single parent. She raised my brother and me, paid every bill on time, and bought a house of…
The experience of the Communist Ansar[1] in Iraq remains one of the finest and most sincere chapters of communist struggle in modern…
Two health and gender rights leaders delivered a stark assessment of what happens when major external funding disappears overnight and organised opposition…
It wasn’t so very long ago that there were three great powers reasonably ascendant on planet Earth. I’m thinking, of course, about…
In much political theory, emancipation is imagined through the workplace. If alienation in production can be overcome, if workers can recognize their…
I initially wrote this piece in 2024 during the student uprisings that took place around the United States. The content was focused…
A Deal Without Safeguards The Trump administration has approved a deal with Saudi Arabia under which the US will provide the material…
Gulf de-dollarization is the gradual diversification of oil-trade settlement and reserve holdings away from the US dollar. It’s not a wholesale switch…
Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US President Donald J. Trump…
Over 70 delegates from 43 organizations across 17 countries gathered in Colombo from 16-18 July for the ‘Hands Off Asia’ conference, organized…
For some time, Germany – legally and politically – is well on the way to become a sustainable state. Among other things,…
This may seem like a slightly belated reaction to India’s President’s visit to Macedonia 20-23 July. Yet the event deserves a brief…
During the spring heat wave, Europe registered an estimated 800 so-called “surplus deaths”. Meanwhile in Germany, deaths by heat are not even…
Vi kumt di kats ibern vaser? [How does a cat cross over the water?] — Old Yiddish saying The First Question: What’s…
Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless…
The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of its…
This article was conceived and written back in the early 1970s and excerpted from a book published in 1974, What Is To Be…
When a gunman opens fire in a crowded venue or a vehicle plows into pedestrians in Berlin, New York or London, the…
By now, it is almost impossible to honestly defend the humane facade of the US’s post-War foreign policy. The Truman Doctrine of…
“Donald Trump is running the biggest grift in American history. The unprecedented scale of the president’s corruption was exposed by the recent…
The previous commentaries have described how people in cities, states, and communities have been expanding fossil free energy production and reducing energy…
In 1947, newly independent India set out on one of the twentieth century’s most consequential development experiments. Jawaharlal Nehru’s government rejected both…
