When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday, the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion and resolve. Ellsberg’s renown…
Since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines have focused on union organizing victories at Starbucks and Amazon. But a recent New…
I’m not really a Star Trek fan, but I did give it a go back in the day. The show was sometimes…
Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible (published by The New Press) shows how the U.S. hides the human toll of its…
The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive…
Cornel West, the prominent Black public intellectual, philosopher and theologian, professor at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and the Union Theological Seminary, and an…
One hundred and fifty young people from the United States and Canada arrived in Cuba in late April 2023, just days before…
Ukraine, the United States, and NATO have condemned what they correctly called Russian President Putin’s “dangerous and irresponsible” plan to soon deploy…
During the weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the…
Corporate media outlets have often furthered racist narratives, and do so even today. In contrast, independent media outlets have centered racial justice,…
Cornerstone of American Foreign Policy The basis of American foreign policy had been well established long ago, more than a century prior.…
Attention-grabbing and sensationalist media capitalism has ensured that many people fear artificial intelligence (AI). For that, a monster called Frankenstein is often…
Normal describes beliefs or behaviors considered natural, proper, and permanent. Normal implies innate and unchallengeable. We don’t alter what’s normal. We don’t…
Europe keeps reminding us that geopolitical interests trump ideology. European politics is the prime example of how states and political parties are…
For good reason, the fight to unionize Starbucks has drawn considerable public attention since workers at a Buffalo, New York store voted to unionize…
On June 3, 2023, naval vessels from the United States and Canada conducted a joint military exercise in the South China Sea.…
Remarks by China’s United Nations Ambassador, Geng Shuang, on the situation in Occupied Palestine on May 24 were impeccable, in terms of…
What’s Going On? I’ve reported on the worrying signs of a large gap in communications between the US and China. But I’ve…
Since his inauguration as President of Brazil in January 2023, Lula da Silva has endeavored to relaunch the process of regional cooperation…
By June 2023, the global mass media continued to hype up the hysteria about artificial intelligence (AI) with outlandish statements – such…
Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. Sanity lost in the House, 420-1. It lost in the Senate, 98-0.…
Citizen participation in local affairs can be a wonderful and constructive experience. But at times, when a community is dominated by bigots,…
When Sara Steffens was a young reporter from Oakland, she helped her co-workers at the Contra Costa Times form a new Newspaper Guild bargaining…
For Netanyahu, the frequent deadly raids on Palestinian towns and refugee camps translate into political assets that allow him to keep his…
[The following is an edited transcript of the podcast RevolutionZ’s 230th episode. It is from RevolutionZ’s unscripted Ruminations series, but it is…
Despite the daily media hype about artificial intelligence (AI), there still is a rather sobering reality of AI. This is the point…
When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope…
Kathy Kelly provides her reflections on Jeffery E. Stern’s book The Mercenary, A Story of Brotherhood & Terror in the Afghanistan War.…
It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how…
One thing I was grateful for during the pandemic was masks — and not just for safety reasons. I’m on Medicare for…
By May 2023, the European Parliament’s committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) has voted to strengthen its legislative proposal…
Workers at Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Georgia, launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance, and a voice…
We have hit an organizational dead end in the progressive social change movement, just when we are also facing terminal threats to…
Though the United States remains a strong supporter of Israel, there are some indications that the supposed ‘unbreakable bond’ with Tel Aviv…
For at least half a century, at least once every decade in the English-speaking democracies of the West there’s been a moral…
Outrage continues over Justice Neil Gorsuch’s recent remarks that policy responses to COVID-19 may represent “the greatest intrusion of civil liberties in…
Two recent exposés about child labor in the United States highlight how prevalent the once-outlawed practice has become. In February, the New York…
[On May 1 2023, various media outlets and organizations co-published an essay titled 20 Theses for Liberation. Thirty progressive activists initially signed it.…
Part One: When I was initially asked to sign onto the Twenty Theses for Liberation, my first thought was, “Why not?” I…
Patty Chayefsky’s film Network, an acid-laced spoof of capitalist media, reaches its climax when Chairman Arthur Jensen, leader of the fictional mega-corporation…
It should come as no surprise that the world is currently facing an existential nuclear danger. In fact, it has been caught…
When the new House majority passed its grab bag of government spending cuts last month, setting up an on-going game of chicken…
The recent election for Mayor of Philadelphia was very disappointing for progressive activists who with good reason had to believe their candidate…
Among the many troubling trends in US-China relations these days is the lack of high-level diplomatic engagement. Until a few weeks ago,…
In anticipation of next month’s United Nations Security Council talks on reforming the inherently archaic and dysfunctional political body, China’s foreign policy…
Has the South African government unequivocally sided with Russia, as witnessed not just in February’s joint military exercises (alongside China) but also…
As the planet’s biggest investor, with $9 trillion in assets under management and an army of tech-savvy analysts trained on the scent…
“. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .” These words stick in my heart…
In Sweden, as in many other countries, employers are attacking the collective agreements (or the labor contracts, as it’s called in North…
On May 16, 2023, The New York Times published a full-page advertisement signed by 15 U.S. national security experts about the war…
