Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet…
What is commonly known as the labor market remains an inevitable feature of an economic system that converts everything into a commodity.…
Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon and marching his legion on Rome did not destroy the Roman Republic all by himself. The erosion…
Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased…
Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted…
In the Donald Trump era — praise be! — so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For…
It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But…
On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a…
Noam Chomsky has been in the news lately for titillating and unpleasant reasons. For me, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is relatively…
The world can become a gigantic garbage can. The world can become a liberatory laboratory of fulfillment. Which will it be? To…
Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Irish people have been pounding the streets week after week in solidarity with…
Translated article from the Swedish publication Magasinet Konkret. Organizing is – or should be – the core business of every labor union.…
On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white…
Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism…
To understand the historical blockage of the Left, one must first expose its internal contradictions. The Left claims to criticize the state…
Gary Stevenson has risen to fame on the back of his 2024 Sunday Times bestseller, Trading Game; an edgy rags to riches…
For anyone paying even modest attention to the current administration’s foreign policy posture, a Christmas Day bombing justified as “protecting Christians from…
Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip…
At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23…
The term ‘hypocrisy’ is the most convenient term, but certainly not the most apt to describe the inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song…
I hold joint US/German citizenship due to the historical fact that my maternal family was stripped of their German citizenship by The…
Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the…
The plan was to stand outside the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day with a large inflatable bomb. The protesters would…
Howard Zinn’s book on SNCC was written in 1964. Yet, here I am writing a review in 2025, a good 60 years…
Paul Wines helped to kick in the door of the warehouse and heard a sound like a freight train crashing through town.…
What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but…
A passage from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale haunts me often: “That was when they suspended the Constitution… There wasn’t even any rioting in…
One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a document titled…
Gary Cunningham remembers sitting at the dining room table as a boy, listening to his father relate stories about his work as…
The December 14 mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, aimed at the Jewish community during Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi Beach, stunned the world.…
This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species…
When we think of Christmas today, what comes first to mind? Twinkling lights along Main Street, the ceaseless hum of commerce, the…
The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens…
Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas…
With less than a year before the next Teamsters general election; and less than two-and-half years since the catastrophic 2023 UPS-Teamsters agreement…
US President Donald Trump has made it very clear that he is an enemy of Europe. His administration’s recent National Security Strategy…
On the blood-soaked map of the Middle East today, behind visible diplomatic crises and high-pitched rhetorical wars, one of the most pragmatic…
In a recent AI study (November 2025), slightly more than 1,000 Germans were asked about artificial intelligence (AI), online security, deepfakes and…
Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the…
If we take a bird’s-eye view of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro—where the largest share of the Serbian people lives today—we…
I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the…
If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant shadow-play staged by geopolitical puppeteers—would you…
The United States is in the grip of a reading recession—nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and…
“That went well! Let’s do it again soon.” My friend and I congratulated ourselves and hung up the phone. Greg and I…
1. The Iraqi Left Between Participation and Boycott in the 2025 Elections This article comes at a critical political and organizational moment…
On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the…
On 10 December 2025, U.S. forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well,…
The Palestinian struggle, which spans over a century, is fundamentally about the dispossession of land, resistance to displacement, self-determination and human rights. …
Descartes’ famous phrase “I think, therefore I am” (cogito, ergo sum) has been the subject of immense discussion in modern and contemporary…
Sitting in a lively room in the University of Amsterdam, I ask a question about the respect accorded by students to their…
