While dread of nuclear war between Russia and NATO states over Ukraine have reached new heights, especially in Europe, a second U.S.…
The title, The Old Folks Home at the College, is from a song lyric. I bet you can guess, or know, the author.…
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in…
The United States and its coalition partners launched the Iraq War in March 2003, and twenty years later pundits and participants alike…
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” So screamed the character Howard Beale in the 1976 movie…
The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America’s schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don’t accept as true what you’re…
Perhaps it’s coincidence, or perhaps it has been of my own subconscious making, but there has been a community of people right…
The Mounting Danger Tensions on the Korean peninsula have reached a new level of intensity. North Korea’s foreign ministry issued a statement…
Thirty-three years after Germany’s re-unification in 1990, many people still see a divided Germany. They see West-Germany and East-Germany with East-Germany being…
In a hypothetical race to claim the mantle of biggest threat to humanity, nuclear war, ecological catastrophe, rising authoritarianism, and new pandemics…
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen As…
As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined anti-government protests, questions began to arise regarding how this movement would affect, or possibly merge,…
This is from one of the people I’m least likely to bother quoting: “We need a national divorce. . . From the sick…
The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that China’s top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran…
March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of…
If you’re old enough to remember the slogan “War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things,” then you’re old enough…
Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets…
Even in the era of identity politics, one category of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe Glenton calls “veteranhood.” In the U.S.,…
Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist is the 2022 debut feature of independent British filmmaker Brett Gregory. Despite being…
“My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. It has no room for cowardice or even weakness. There is hope for…
As is the case of long wars, the warring parties and their affiliated media in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have painted each other…
For a decade now, VIOME has been the only self-managed factory in Greece, where workers control the production process. It is a…
The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting…
Is it Russian imperialism or great-power politics that explains Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? And how likely is it that we could see…
This week, when the New York Times featured an opinion piece by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas…
The future tapped me quietly on the shoulder the other day and suggested that I take a moment to learn about the…
Two proposals for bringing peace in Russia’s war on Ukraine were issued on nearly the same day last month: a UN General…
Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other…
(Image by Julie Maas) Following the January mobilization to protest the removal from office of Peru’s Indigenous President Pedro Castillo, unofficial reports indicate continuing…
In the conflict-ridden realm of international relations, certain terms are particularly useful, and one of them is “Red Lines.” Derived from the…
Some time back, I opened the Sunday New York Times. The main headline, front page, top right, was “At many nursing homes,…
In France, again, the public rebels as we ought to everywhere. Will the French strike widen? Will the French occupy, expand, diversify,…
There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the…
Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in…
Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli…
You can’t have a living wage without sufficient affordable housing, and you can’t afford decent housing without a living wage. These claims…
A recent expose in The New York Times documenting how U.S. corporations exploit migrant children sheds light on a crucial issue facing the American…
Media and individuals too often field too few questions about the systemic causes of trends and events. More often they ask about…
Workers in the logistics industry often make headlines when their handling of goods is disrupted by pandemic conditions or labor conflicts. Thanks…
For environmental activists, the inauguration of Joe Biden held promise. The executive orders that he signed that day included one to rejoin…
To understand the current fierce attacks on the progressive leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, it’s helpful to recall the panicked reaction…
In the classic movie It’s A Wonderful Life, a small community savings bank, a building and loan association which is dedicated to…
On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier…
Contrary to popular belief, racism is alive and well in the food system. Up to 83% of farmworkers in the country are Latino,…
Though it has been argued that the so-called American dream is long dead, Nikki Haley is proof that the dream is still…
Florida’s Governor DeSantis educational scheme that students need to learn the facts and nothing but the facts is likely to make teaching…
Biden Administration Claim The recent widely acclaimed report of 517,000 jobs created in January by the Biden administration placated the recession-phobic instincts…
Sabrina Chaumette is an Oakland, CA resident and a licensedclinical social worker and a member of the National Union ofHealthcare Workers (NUHW)…
With all the attention on US-China relations, Beijing’s on-again, off-again relations with the European Union (EU) don’t receive the attention they deserve.…
With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither…
