“A 4-year-old girl passed out in 100-degree heat after she was pushed back toward Mexico by Texas National Guard personnel. A pregnant…
Like almost everything under capitalism, ChatGPT too, serves an ideological function. Seen from such a functional perspective, an ideology needs to achieve…
Twenty years ago I helped set up a small activist collective called Block the Empire to oppose Canada’s contribution to the invasion…
An Oppenheimer Review Through the Lens of an Anti-War Activist The ground-breaking movie Oppenheimer, despite its unsympathetic protagonist, packs a powerful anti-nuclear…
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[Along with other intellectuals, I was asked by a New Zealand solidarity group to share a few ideas on what meaningful solidarity…
“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” —Kurt Vonnegut One summer when I…
In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the…
Student activists are traveling thousands of miles across the Democratic Republic of Congo to mobilize communities against the expansion of Big Oil.…
China’s economy is going through some of the same growing pains that Japan once experienced: lower consumer spending, overbuilding on homes and…
“. . . we need to do everything we can to keep (global) warming as low as possible.” When it comes to climate change,…
Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area…
This is the perfect opportunity for Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to exit the stage. But he will not. Abbas’ brief visit…
Work from home arrangements proliferated during the pandemic and became very popular among white-collar workers. They are now the subject of a…
In 1918 the painter John Singer Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to visit the fields of France to…
The late war resister and writer David Harris wrote Dreams Die Hard (1982), the nonfiction account of the civil rights leader, politician, and lawyer…
On 14 June, a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, killing between 400 and 700 people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and…
Public speaking has never been an exclusively male activity—but from the written record, you might think that until very recently it was,…
At his speech during the NATO Summit in Lithuania, President Biden called the U.S. and Europe “anchors for global security” when in…
The deadly Israeli invasion of Jenin on July 3 was not a surprise. Also, unsurprising is the fact that the killing of…
This year’s celebrations of American independence straddled Israel’s most intense airstrikes on Palestinians in nearly two decades. Amidst Fourth of July parades…
“In a dark time,” poet Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.” Stanley Kunitz observed: “In a murderous time / the heart breaks…
The Biden Administration’s recent decisions to send deadly cluster bombs to Ukraine and to appoint despicable imperialist Elliott Abrams to a State…
A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission…
It was election day in New Jersey, normally a very busy day for journalists, especially to cover many important, competitive races that…
Prominent left-wing politician and trade union activist, Mikhail Lobanov, has fled Russia only hours after he was fired from Moscow State University’s…
“I believe that my bilateral meetings — which totaled about 10 hours over two days — served as a step forward in…
In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the ‘imperialist bias’ of the International Criminal Court (ICC).…
Roughly ten weeks until U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. What’s coming to NYU, Wisconsin, SF State, MIT, Howard,…
Alarm, the far right is advancing! More than three years ago (30 April 2019), the BBC News website reported: “Traditional institutions are…
The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme…
Globalization and Western democracy, particularly the influence of the United States, have played crucial roles in fostering the development of a liberal…
President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions…
The July 21, 2023 theatrical release of the film Oppenheimer, focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to…
Unless you are a peace activist, or work for the Pentagon or a weapons contractor, you are likely (blissfully) unaware Congress is…
The most successful U. S. health insurance program, Medicare, was enacted ln July,1965, to provide health insurance for people ages 65 and…
On Saturday, July 1, 2023, a large crowd gathered inside and around the Ibn Badis Mosque in Nanterre, France, where a 17-year-old…
California is home to Hollywood and Disneyland, sun and sand, and… nearly one-third of all unhoused people in the entire nation. Compare…
Desecrating, then burning the Holy Quran in Sweden has, once again, raised a political storm of condemnation, but also of justification, if…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not just against the establishment of a Palestinian state, he wants to eliminate the very aspirations…
A tiny piece of news out of Florida the other day poked me, you might say, in the rear end. The nation’s…
Midway through his cumulatively stunning new book “Soldiers Don’t Go Mad,” author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from The Times of London…
The context of this quarterly report is important. The trend toward a neofascist political economy continues to fester in some states as…
There are two phenomena in the contemporary US that are often confused to be the same. Although they may intermingle at times,…
Written upon learning… …that a federal appeals court in Louisiana (5th Circuit) ruled that a cop can sue a protest organizer for injuries caused…
The United States Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college and university admissions was in response to…
Numbers can be dehumanizing. However, when placed in their proper context, they help to illuminate wider issues and answer urgent questions, such…
The corner of State Street and South Street roughly intersect with Correctional Facility Road in Ossining, New York. It’s about an hour…
Dave Smith launched a union drive many years ago that generated enthusiastic support among his coworkers, but the effort died after management…
In the second and final national election contest in Greece, the conservative and far-right forces have triumphed. The left suffered a crushing…
