So much going on. Existential crises. Fundamental needs. Short and long term agendas. Sounds heard all around the world. Much to think…
It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque…
By turning voting machines, classified intelligence, and alleged foreign interference into political theater, the Trump administration is preparing voters to distrust an election that…
Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify…
As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to…
On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump ordered the secretary of defense to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to combat what he claimed…
In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the “Arab” side of a…
The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.…
The plight of Palestine has been the emotional heartbeat of the Arab imagination for decades. From Casablanca to Baghdad, millions have chanted…
Climate-focused progressive author Phil Wilson (ZNet, July 24, 2026) writes that “out of our current predicament there are two (and only two)…
A widening war After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire is over…
On July 14, at a summit in Orlando, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director Terrance Cole declared that Mexican cartels and the Mexican government…
Most immigration debates focus on the border. But the real story starts much earlier — with trade deals, war, inequality, climate breakdown,…
The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party…
President Daniel Noboa governs Ecuador with increasingly authoritarian methods. Elected in 2023 and reelected in 2025, he has concentrated power in the…
How Big Oil Seduced American Farming and Left Taxpayers With the Bill Earlier last week in Washington, administration officials appeared before the…
This was certainly an occasion when the mouse roared. At least the threatened lion thought so, if the latest hysteria-streaked US State…
On 22 July, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed what Washington calls a ‘peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement.’ The agreement has been presented…
In 1950, during an informal meeting with colleagues at Los Alamos, the famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi asked the following question: Where…
The Israeli military’s Orwellian use of artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and execution of attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the West…
“The biggest shift in consciousness? I’d say it began in 2026. Really took off by 2028. That’s when the working-class vote for…
The architecture of international justice was built upon a single uncompromising promise: never again. It was forged in the ashes of 20th…
The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends…
As World Hepatitis Day falls on 28 July, the global health community confronts a stark reality: the science to eliminate viral hepatitis,…
The Constitution gives Congress the powers to declare war and authorize military force, but the American empire gives the president the first…
Having recently presented Classical Marxist theory, then Leninist strategy, and last time Bolshevik practice, this essay moves on to critically assess Leninist…
Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had,…
Months in, Trump’s war on Iran has netted him none of the goals he proclaimed when he began dropping bombs. Iran still…
When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence cited “the position articulated by… pro-peace organizations like…
Robin Andersen’s The Complicit Lens is a tour de force: not only does she focus on US legacy/mainstream/capitalist media coverage of Israel’s…
Despite Israel’s alleged ceasefire, news emerging from the Gaza Strip is no different from what it was before the agreement. Not only…
The lawsuit filed after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) questioned Max Blumenthal and seized two of his cellphones has renewed debate…
Last Sunday, Spain lifted the World Cup trophy at MetLife Stadium, closing out six weeks that revealed two very different North Americas.…
Right now, in Santa Cruz, California, police officers are going without federally funded bulletproof vests. In Beaverton, Oregon, paramedics are losing the ambulances they were…
Beyond the Feminism-or-Family Dichotomy The relationship between feminism, the family, and capitalism has become one of the most contentious theoretical and political…
Missouri’s Republican lawmakers did exactly what their corporate patrons demanded in 2017 and rammed through legislation intended to prevent working people from…
The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration remains, as it always…
The world stands on the precipice of all-out war; missiles, drones and jets fly through the skies of Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Lebanon…
In his essay “Between Concealed Hatred and Open Quarrelling,” Nenad Kecmanović, a Bosnian Serb political scientist and former member of Bosnia and…
Climate overheating is a story, and human survival depends on how we tell that story. It is a story about the ruling…
I was disappointed to learn the Building for Power campaign, put forward by the Green New Deal Campaign Commission of the Democratic…
Last June 17, 2026 Trump announced a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) had been reached between the US and Iran and a ceasefire…
On 20 July, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament. They carried placards, shouted slogans, and demanded…
Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship…
How we view the world and each other is often influenced by learned patterns ingrained in the social hierarchies we are forced…
Modish Blockades: The Houthis, Trump and Expanding the War The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow…
“We who think about politics all the time rarely have a good handle on what’s going on in the lives and minds…
Outside theology, the term “Antichrist” has a broader, more secular, and highly descriptive sense. It names a powerful, grossly malevolent person who…
Section 219 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has received much less attention than it deserves. This initiative would transform…
When was the last time you wrote something by hand? Was it a stylus signature at a checkout stand, a kitchen calendar…
