“I love working the polls!” a friend told me recently. “It strengthens my trust in the whole process. And it’s fun getting…
Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English…
With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the…
In response to the increasing global demand for resources and the economic pursuits that come with it, attention on the world’s oceans continues to grow.…
We have an economic system that is on trial. Those of us on the Left and progressives (L&P) have already reached a…
“When a state carries out aggression, its propaganda system has the responsibility to justify the act and suppress the reasons for it…
Have human institutions evolved sufficiently to cope with the modern world? When it comes to national security, the answer appears to be: …
Environmental activists rarely get to celebrate a major win for the planet, but that’s what happened in Ecuador in August last year.…
The following are several dispatches from Firestorm, a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath…
Like many others I am at a loss to explain much less affect certain current events. I feel confused, like I did…
Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect…
In 1947, the moot question was whether the Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir, then a princely state, would follow the stipulations of the…
Colonialism is hardly a thing of the past – it’s alive and vibrant as ever . . . from the Middle East…
The last year of a relentless Israeli war on Gaza, and bloody raids and violence in the West Bank have been largely…
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and…
A “Balkan union” is not a novel idea. It has been proposed in various forms in response to imperial aspirations, as a…
Ireland north and south is faced with challenges that are commonplace across Western Europe. There is poverty and wealth inequality, regional economic…
During the summer, the US Supreme Court issued multiple rulings that have generated a storm of hostility among progressives; for example, there…
Over the past year, mindful that I have been blessed to live under Oregon’s tranquil skies, I reflect upon the Palestinians and…
A few days ago a Marist Poll came out which reported an important finding as far as the Presidential race. It said: “80% of…
I am no psychic, but I can forecast a few basic things. For example, as a very casual baseball fan I am…
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”…
Now that Joe Biden is on his way into the history books as a president who refused to stop a genocide, we…
One year after the Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks, and with most of Gaza literally destroyed and the conflict in the Middle…
About a month ago I was watering plants in our family garden when a dragonfly landed on a plant just a few…
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in…
On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),…
On 6th October 2023, I received an update on an education project at the half-way point of delivery in the Gaza strip…
After nearly a year since the Hamas-led terror attack on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of close to 1200 people…
As the U.S. election nears, there is considerable controversy, confusion, consternation, and sometimes recrimination on the left. But most of all, there…
Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration,…
My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications…
The Biden-Harris genocide-facilitation team is celebrating the latest atrocities from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon, as is to be expected…
After the Second World War the Global north created a gilded age in modern capitalism. That era ended in the 1980s, when…
Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18. The first was a…
“A ministry of risk goes unerringly to the side of the victims, to those threatened or destroyed by greed, prejudice, and…
Amid the rhetorical fog of their game-changing presidential debate in June, Donald Trump and his then-opponent only dealt with the Department of…
Thirty years ago, President Aristide, victim of a military putsch, returned to power following the intervention of the United Nations. On December…
If one is to visit the Mahal website, a pop-up reminder, reading ‘Apply online’, keeps appearing. It is as if the repeated…
On August 5, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the prime minister of Bangladesh for the last 15 years, had to resign and run from…
Israel’s violence toward its neighbors, long out of control in its destruction of Gaza, now threatens to open new fronts, involve new…
The world is moving inexorably towards war. Any imaginary poll of the world’s population would show that nobody wants war. But war…
My chest is still sore like having done too many push-ups, or taken a knock. It’s from the shoves of the police “Get…
A man I know – I’ll call him Liam – worked as a nurse in a Belfast care home throughout the Covid…
In recent days, Donald Trump and his Republican running mate, JD Vance, have doubled down on their false and defamatory claims about…
Sometimes we must explicitly state what ought to be utterly obvious. Or would we rather make what is disgusting normal? Rather make…
Over the past few decades, humanity has embarked on an unprecedented trajectory of providing public education to learners in schools and learning…
Never in its history of war, and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future,…
Education. Just the term itself – for those of us not in dire poverty, being sanctioned, bombed or in climate ravaged areas…
Between 1942 and 1964, migrant Mexican farm and railroad workers labored for low and often delayed pay under the U.S. Government’s Bracero Program. According to the…
