The announcement of the US/Iran Memorandum of Understanding allegedly ending the war between Iran and the USA/Israeli axis has brought forth more…
“The Left,” in the singular, is a simplified expression of the diversity of leftist movements[1]. By “the Left,” I mean all organized…
On Tuesday, June 16, The Guardian published a story that will probably never make it “above-the-fold” in America’s increasingly timid and understaffed…
U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for the fiscal year 2027, which would increase by 44 percent…
In recent weeks, Germany has experienced a targeted attack by Germany’s powerful employers and the ultra-conservative and super-neoliberal government on one of…
Each day, I reluctantly but inevitably log into my social media accounts to post essays, share important news articles, and generally check…
In a regulatory hearing this week, Duke Energy’s top executives admitted that they recruit the very data centers used to justify a…
The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern…
The US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) has now been revealed, and it is clear why it took days before a US official…
In recent weeks, the misnamed US Department of Justice has indicted twenty-three activists on serious charges related to their organizing against institutional…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
All objective analyses and data point to the Democrats numerically defeating the Republicans on November 3 in at least the House of…
Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the ‘white gold’ of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic…
Although the U.S. labor movement is sometimes depicted as hawkish and xenophobic, this characterization ignores its repeated attempts to grapple with the…
In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism…
Sixty to seventy percent of Mexico’s terrain is classified as arid or semiarid desert, typically with no rain for eight to nine…
Whenever I turn back to the history of Jim Crow, my teeth clench with rage. What enrages me is not only the…
The first surprise in store for us with this 2026 World Cup is the impressive amnesia of everyone involved, including the international…
The opening matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup represent an ideological milestone for international sports. For the first time, forty-eight nations…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
In peripheral capitalist formations, women are not merely a gendered or social category. They occupy a structural position at the intersection of…
On 14 June, as diplomats edged towards what could have become the most consequential US–Iran understanding in years, a bomb fell on…
In April 2026, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a group of individuals and entities that are involved in recruiting former…
Like most of America’s wars in West Asia, the current joint U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran is about securing…
On May 1, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order authorizing additional sanctions on Cuba. Trump said, “We will be taking it…
One of the more troubling and counterproductive phenomena taking place in today’s digital landscape is the rise of the online pundit. On…
It all started with a road accident in Indian state of Punjab on 25th November 2001 which killed home maker Reshma -…
During the recent assault on Gaza, thousands of activists witnessed their posts deleted or their accounts restricted simply for documenting Israeli occupation crimes or…
The transformations that have unfolded across the Persian Gulf over the past two decades cannot be adequately explained through the conventional language…
When Mel Mandy gave birth to her first child twenty-five years ago, the doctor told her off for smoking while pregnant. Her…
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will…
Dear friend, This week, Donald Trump made his most direct intervention yet in Colombia’s democratic process. “Congratulations to Colombian presidential candidate El…
The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to…
Amnesty International invites you to a hybrid press briefing in Berlin and online to launch a major new report, “Erasing anything Palestinian:…
Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo since the Eisenhower administration, although it was President John F. Kennedy who implemented a…
Most antiwar voters in Massachusetts don’t believe that the GOP’s Trump administration should be using the U.S. power elite’s permanent war machine…
The main news item in African media this past week has been the controversy surrounding a proposed U.S.-funded Ebola quarantine facility in…
From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chances of reelection hinge on carrying on the war Hezbollah and keeping the fires burning with Iran.…
The Democratic Party once imagined itself as the engine of meaningful American transformation. First FDR revamped the relationship between the government and…
[This essay is the first in a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning,…
Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / FromCalifornia to the New York island,” but,…
Two things happened this year that the fashion industry would prefer you didn’t connect. Shein bought Everlane — a $100 million acquisition of ethical…
In the wake of the latest American strike against Iran, many commentators have once again revived familiar narratives about a supposed “clash…
When the US-Iran conflict escalated earlier this year, the immediate concern centered on oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz. But the…
I am writing this text with the Americas and Europe in mind, but the phenomena I analyze apply, with modifications, to other…
There is something vertiginous in certain coincidences. When I discovered the new ERA logo, something stopped within me — as breath stops…
For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears…
The latest federal injunction against a new government investment mechanism barely registered in the public conversation. It was covered as a technical…
