When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive…
Kim Scipes reviews Jason Hickel’s Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. Looking through the lens of climate change, Jason…
If we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing…
The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation. Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge…
Predatory Capitalism Triumphs Over People And Community There is a large sign over the Delaware River Bridge connecting New Jersey’s state capital…
There is a dialectical relation between colonisation and decolonisation. This dialectical relation is dyadic and triadic. Decolonisation as a process of the…
In 1925 the African American and Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen posed the following significant question, what is Africa to me? Cullen…
20 March 2024Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement The poor and marginalised have not seen any gains in almost 30 years of democracy. The…
People’s choice of words can be revealing.That’s certainly the case with respect to one of Donald Trump’s favorite slogans, “America First.” In…
Donkeys have been our steadfast companions for centuries, valued for their strength, hardiness, and work ethic. Yet, for many, a donkey’s value…
Another family died yesterday. A dozen families die everyday. They usually manage to pull a few bodies out of the rubble. The…
By mid-March 2024, millions of people had participated in anti-far-right rallies that covered the entire length and breadth of Germany. The anti-right-wing…
The moderate line, coming from more progressive forces among ruling elites, has given unwavering support to Israel’s genocidal bombing and blockade of…
Throughout 2023 and into 2024, the North of Ireland [1] has witnessed the largest and most sustained public sector strikes in all…
In a work entitled “Irish Famine 4,” Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time…
Twenty-five years after Hugo Chávez took office and began the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, U.S. officials have still not tired of dreaming up new…
The widowed single mom attacked grocery shopping with the doggedness of a Marine on a mission. To provide for her family in…
Since banks were deregulated during the administration of President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, there has been an orgy of predatory capitalism…
“Inside every phone is the blood of a Congolese person.” These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic…
President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons…
‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who…
Assistance outcomes differ by country, but special interests and the absence of a unified vision increase the risk of mismanagement and corruption.…
On the afternoon of Friday, March 8, International Working Women’s Day, 200 activists gathered on Capitol Hill representing a broad range of…
Michigan’s longtime Senator Debbie Stabenow is retiring this year, meaning an open U.S. Senate seat is up for grabs. There is a…
The results of the last general elections on March 10 call for a reading that goes beyond the froth of the results.…
Alain Alameddine interviews Mohammad Zraiy, the Gaza coordinator for the One Democratic State Initiative and English teacher, about the situation in Gaza,…
To my Palestinian sisters, Despite the global rise of the feminist liberation movement launched decades ago to amplify the voices of women,…
Hosted by Evergreen State College, this webinar brings together four Jewish speakers, Rabbi David Basior, Peter Bohmer, Rabbi Seth Goldstein, and Nancy…
We, the undersigned, are University of Portsmouth (UoP) staff members, students and alumni who are deeply concerned about the actions of the…
“No explanation, no justification or excuse could ever cover up [the] horror [in Gaza]. It would be best if Israel’s [hasbara] machine…
“Liberals are doomed to destroy themselves inside out. And they are militantly out of touch with the rest of the world.” That’s…
Susan Crane, of the Redwood City, California Catholic Worker, has been sentenced to 229 days in prison in Germany for daring to…
First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! You can kill as many of them as…
There are many issues on the line this election year but one that gets little attention is former President Donald Trump’s 2017…
Humberto Montes de Oca is the Secretary for Internal Relations of the Mexican Union of Electrical Workers (SME). He was originally a…
The richest, most powerful countries in the western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the…
When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried…
First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! You can kill as many of them as…
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was…
Hamas was formed in the late 1980s as an armed wing of the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood, a…
In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war…
The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much…
In one of the most violent cities in the Western hemisphere, we meet with immigrants in a shelter trying to make their way…
It has long been a particular irony of imperialist aggression in the Middle East that, thanks to decades-old geopolitical arrangements known as…
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began,…
Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during a distribution of food aid in…
For the past five months, in every part of the globe, millions of people have participated in protest actions. They have been…
Aaron Bushnell the 25-year-old USAF active duty member who set himself on fire to renounce “aiding and abetting genocide” in Gaza, was…
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that…
For quite some time now, many company bosses, managers, trade unions, academics, journalists, and workers in Europe have been talking about the…
