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The Fort Bragg, California coastal headlands comprise 425 acres of the much- celebrated Mendocino Coast. If you walk the town’s coastal trail…
The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) launched on Saturday, January 27, its “Letter of Commitment to the…
On February 7, 2024, a U.S. drone strike assassinated an Iraqi militia leader, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, in the heart of Baghdad. This…
It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not…
With the far right AfD and adjacent Neo-Nazis on the march, Germany’s progressive side of politics seems to enjoy breaking itself into…
[The following is a mildly edited transcript of the 267th episode of the Podcast Titled RevolutionZ.] I borrowed the title Time Has Come Today from…
The exploitation of workers under capitalism is nothing new. In line with that, a sophisticated system of exploitation exists at Amazon. It…
Christopher Betterley arrived at the Altamont Veterans Facility in Buffalo, New York, a few years ago needing a home, a haircut, and…
The recent decision by the Biden Administration to stop the years-long practice by the Department of Energy of rubber stamping proposed methane…
When Matt Taibbi agreed in late 2022 to become part of Elon Musk’s handpicked group of “Twitter Files” reporters, it was only…
Americans have had to weather much in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic first began, including price inflation of basic necessities. Grocery…
Today, February 2, 2024 the US Labor Dept released its monthly jobs report for January. One of the Department’s two surveys showed…
It’s early February in 2024 and on the last 3 weekends in January hundreds of thousands of Germans took to the streets…
Citizens in Russia saw a measurable chance for change — and immediately mobilized. Yes, this chance is measured in millionths of a…
An Interview with Bob Pease. The questions were compiled by Mark Evans who is a member of Real Utopia’s Outreach and Events…
In late 2022, the world’s richest man, white nationalist fellow traveler and military contractor Elon Musk, purchased Twitter for $44 billion. He…
The Trump administration dusted off the 19th century Monroe Doctrine that subjugates the nations of the region to U.S. interests. The Biden…
In life people face many moral dilemmas. The challenge of making choices when different values are in competition is not easy. It…
Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a…
Sometimes there’s a thin line between vile demagoguery and pure idiocy. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi straddled both during a Sunday appearance on CNN,…
To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to…
Even though conservatives, the right, right-wing extremists, and outright neofascists are seemingly on the fore-march in Europe, European progressive parties remain a…
I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor…
Now that the New Hampshire primary is over, US election 2024 is switching into high gear. In the Republican primary just concluded…
Major fashion brands including Barbour and PVH (the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger) have agreed to pay over £400,000 in…
In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes…
In October 2023, 10 members of the German parliament (Bundestag) left Die Linke (the Left) and declared their intention to form their…
Hitler’s Nazi party was a party for the youth. By 1933, over 40% of all Nazi party members were between 21 and…
On December 30, 2023, the Singapore-flagged Maersk Hangzhou, owned by Danish company Maersk Line, came under missile and subsequent boat attacks by…
The New Hampshire primary has confirmed that the United States is on the way to a disastrous fall election. Unless a health…
In October 2023 the United Nations Security Council voted to send security forces to Haiti to help to stabilize the island nation…
A recent Jacobin article about how Karl Marx first got radicalized included these two sentences: “Today, many young people are marching leftward in [Marx’s] footsteps from…
Absurd —ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous (Merriam-Webster) The condition of absurdity has been examined in depth by such heavy-duty philosophers as Kierkegaard…
The Justice and Accountability for Palestine Initiative has issued a stark warning to European public officials of the Austrian, French, German and…
North Korea’s Calculations Two of America’s most prominent North Korea experts, Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker, begin their latest analysis with this sentence: “The…
While neoliberalism pushes its idée fixe of a – so far still unseen – free market, the reality of advanced capitalism in…
The following is an interview conducted for Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, a Jacobin podcast series produced in collaboration with…
Major pharmaceutical companies in the United States are battling with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over an issue that is at the heart…
The first and the last time I met John Pilger in person was in 2018. I was invited to deliver a speech at the…
The great failure of the press to carry out the bare minimum of its journalistic mandate—to hold political figures accountable in a…
I was going to the airport to meet my wife, who was returning from abroad on July 25 last year. But the…
Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the…
Law number one in the ‘law of holes’, is that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law number two,…
My background causes me to support the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine including Gaza, the West Bank and East…
The current military conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza have left death and destruction in their wake, with more to come in both…
“My conscience leaves me no other choice,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared while condemning the Vietnam War on April 4,…
While many people have enjoyed a bottle – or two – of French champagne over the festive season, French champagne comes with…
Rome, Venice, Milan, Turin, Bologna, & Bari, Italy | In a dimly lit room at the back of a little independent bookstore, two…
“We felt it necessary to publicly inform politicians that if they supported and continued to support Israel in its actions they could…
