“If the spectacle — understood in the limited sense of those ‘mass media’ that are its most stultifying superficial manifestation — seems…
Today’s on-going horrors have been endlessly self-servingly obscured, rationalized, ritualized, and idealized. Today’s on-going horrors have been occasionally humanely wisely, soberly, and…
The governments of Israel and the United States are now in disagreement over how many Palestinian civilians it’s okay to kill. Last…
Presidents always face uncomfortable choices: supporting human rights versus providing weapons to governments that consistently violate human rights; adding to the nuclear…
As a long-time leader in higher ed unionism, I was recently asked to comment on the transformative changes taking place in American…
Perhaps it was not quite a revolution but the last decade or so – from 2010 to 2022 – has seen an…
One night in 1997, as Americans were parked on the couch in front of an episode of Touched by an Angel, they…
“More and more, we see that you can’t conduct a war without war crimes. And that raises a whole other issue about whether war…
A prominent writer and political activist Majed Abusalama is a co-founder of numerous organizations, one of them being Palestine speaks in Germany.…
If you get your news from Biden-protecting outlets (MSNBC is just the most extreme of many), you’ve been warned daily that the…
A dangerous new phase in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently underway. Following Hamas’s vicious October 7 attacks inside Israeli territory, the Netanyahu…
“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right…
Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation…
Election day in the US is November 5 and as we get closer to that day there is much greater awareness and…
Today’s siege of Gaza is the latest iteration of a more than century-long effort to instill a controlling fear of, and “respect”…
Felipe Venegas wears full-body personal protective equipment—and moves carefully and methodically even on the hottest days—because he processes chemicals with the potential…
On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14,…
History will not forgive those who have remained silent, exhibited or expressed ‘balanced’ positions – or worse, defended Israel’s ongoing genocide in…
“Global efforts to address climate change are already clouded by bitterness and distrust among countries of the world. Now a widening gyre…
It’s rare that a union grievance settlement becomes a U.S. presidential campaign issue. But, thanks to the American Federation of Government Employee’s successful defense…
For three weeks, President Biden has played a key role in backing Israel’s war crimes while touting himself as a compassionate advocate…
Media Angst Some of the media are preoccupied with a baffling question; Why are Americans not celebrating the economic accomplishments of the…
It is nowadays pretty much consensual in the social sciences that colonialism did not end with the political independence of the European…
On October 24, it became clear to the United Nations (UN) that the sustained bombardment of Gaza—which had already killed 6,500 people…
“Y’all don’t live in our f—kin’ skin,” said Texas Democrat Armando Walle in an angry outburst at state Republicans in late October…
“Gaza is a tiny coastal enclave adjoining Israel. … The story of how people got there requires us to go back some…
The Rolling Stones have a new album. The NBA season is underway. Cable flows on. Barbie busts records. It’s binge heaven out…
Georgia State Trooper Stanley Kent claimed under oath that it was just a routine traffic violation.1 That Erick Hendricks was following too…
“(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated…
On October 12, Veterans For Peace issued this statement about the conflict between Hamas and Israel, in which we condemned the horrific violence on…
For almost all my life, even since childhood more than six decades ago, I have been an avid football fan. I grew…
A single mother, determined to provide the best for her family, poured her heart and soul into her job at the Cooper…
Dolphins are known for their playful nature and remarkable intelligence. Most people think of them as inhabitants of the vast oceans, leaping…
Labels are central to the politics of media. And no label has been more powerful than “terrorist.” A single standard of language…
Often what is vile hides itself. Denies itself. Alibis itself. Rationalizes itself. It even fades from awareness due to its being so…
In two recent state elections – Bavaria and Hessen – voters took a strong turn toward the radical right. Voters in the…
How many years are we away from a new world war? 1932 was not a year of peace. On the contrary, there…
Spanning 16.7 million acres that stretch across most of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the…
Israel had the perfect plan for Gaza – in fact, for all Palestinians, when it decided to redeploy its forces around the Occupied Gaza…
(This piece was revised and updated from its original text on October 30th to include more recent developments.) I want to share…
It’s long past time that you spoke up for genuine diplomacy to bring an end to the horrible war and human suffering…
“You will not replace us!”–tiki torch MAGA marchers The psychological phenomenon known as projection is nowhere as glaring as with white nationalists,…
For many years there have been various “Palestinian Gandhis” leading nonviolent struggles to gain rights while under Israeli occupation. Ayed Morrar led his Budrus…
Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while…
“Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man.1…
At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media…
Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more…
Civilians, including children, were massacred on one side of the border between Israel and Gaza. Now terror and death crash through Gaza,…
In Sinjar, a small town in Northern Iraq, the consequences of genocide and war linger heavy. Nearly a decade ago, in August…
The crumbling, pothole-filled highways and roads across Guatemala have been shut down, blocked, and barricaded by protesters for more than a week . These…
