With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their party’s voters don’t want President Biden…
From the Dept. of Horrible Chutzpah During the fight over the new House Speaker election, Congress member Chip Roy (R-TX), who voted against the…
With the two-party duopoly of neo-fascist Republicans and neo-liberal Democrats choking any meaningful changes to the American political system, many progressive, independent…
What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles? The national direction is quietly predetermined — it’s not up for debate. The president’s…
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and…
The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues, with no policy solution in sight. During the 2022 fiscal year, nearly 2.4 million migrants were apprehended…
Texas Governor Greg Abbot’s Christmas Eve political stunt of sending busloads of desperate immigrants, including women and children, to Vice President Harris’…
Happy New Year from Z Friend, Ted Glick and BeyondExtremeEnergy @BXEAction A rain-soaked, straggly but passionate group of 8 climate justice activists,…
Two years ago, Morocco and Israel signed the US-brokered “Joint Declaration”, thus officially recognizing Israel and instating diplomatic ties. Though other Arab…
Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients,…
On December 27 2022, both Russia and Ukraine issued calls for ending the war in Ukraine, but only on non-negotiable terms that…
Without a hairs’ breadth in between, the world lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis and the worst…
Michael Albert is interviewed by Matic Primc (first posted by Dialogi) As crises around the world threaten ultimate calamity, what can we…
An unfolding situation in Agadir, Morocco, demonstrates how the COVID pandemic continues to severely affect the workers staffing the global tourism and…
In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Area’s Lawrence Livermore National Lab recently achieved the long-sought goal of…
Russia’s war upon Ukraine should remind us that violent international conflicts not only persist, but constitute a plague upon the world. Over…
My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing…
The attempt by the local ANC – working with the police, private security, the anti-land invasion unit and forces within the prosecuting…
As twisted, meaningless, and as camouflaging the language of managerial bullshit speech is, it still moves on rather relentlessly. Its deeply ideological…
Americans are being slammed by a “tripledemic” this holiday season as three major respiratory illnesses—COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)—are spreading…
Preface to essay It is quite fitting that the publication of this essay is happening in a time when social media corporations…
A simple wish to be free from harm is not something that we are all granted at this time. Not all of…
This article is an introduction to Solarpunk as a vision, culture and movement of radical hope. Part explainer, part analysis, and part…
Several months ago I heard long-time progressive activist George Lakey speak on a zoom call. One of the main issues he addressed was political…
Threshold question: should we hold trials or join Joe Stalin like he proposed after WWII for Hitler and his Hit Men, and…
Nested in the working-class El Valle barrio in Caracas, the 5 de Marzo Commune is a project that explores new ways to empower an…
Recall your attention to the response from the US establishment after Russia was found to be using Iranian drones in the war…
Lula da Silva’s victory in this year’s Brazilian presidential election marks a significant political shift not only in Brazil, which spent the past three…
The underlying theme of this essay is that new ideas have intellectual value largely in proportion to their impact on further new…
In late November, a fire broke out in an apartment building in Urumqi, Xinjiang, a predominantly Uyghur community in China, that resulted in at…
Iran has arrived at a moment of explosive but contradictory developments and the people have become aware of a break with normal…
During our visits to Kabul, Afghanistan from 2009 to 2019, young friends who welcomed me and other international guests to their urban…
On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo sat in his office on what would be the last day of his presidency of Peru.…
In the wake of the nine-month-old Russian war against the Ukraine, a country most take little note of has emerged: Belarus. Besides…
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the…
These days, conventional media wisdom says that President Biden will have a smooth path to renomination if he wants it. Don’t be…
Streets in dozens of Iran cities are filled with angry people in popular protests that have already gone on much longer—three months…
Justice, it seems, is hard to find. Thousands of grassroots organizations across the country seek justice for their concerns. In the US,…
Last Thursday marked 42 years since John Lennon was killed. Many people, including me, lament his death and can recall where we…
An economy is a system of production and consumption activities connected via allocation mechanisms. Simply, it is how people produce items and…
Let’s review what happened 10 years ago, on December 14: A 20-year-old white Connecticut man murdered his mother, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary…
The arrest of Peru’s leftist President Pedro Castillo represents the latest and most serious twist in the country’s on-going systemic political crisis,…
I remember an interview I once did, back about five years, for a British outlet and its first, opening question, went like…
The problem with most Western media’s political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that…
In a stunning finale to 2022’s federal elections, Georgians reelected Sen. Raphael Warnock in a runoff that concluded Tuesday night, where the…
We were mistaken to think that Palestine represents the central issue for all Arabs. Such language suggests that Palestine is an external…
One of the great strengths of capitalism, we’re told, is the individual and corporate freedoms it gives. Compared to other systems, we’re…
Joe Biden has directed the Democratic National Committee to reduce the danger that progressives might effectively challenge him in the 2024 presidential…
Citizen assemblies are valued and promoted by a wide spectrum of advocates for increasing grassroots participation, democratization, diversity, solidarity, inclusion, sustainability, public…
Barbara Ehrenreich died a few months ago. She was brilliantly clear, wise, and funny. She was one of the very few people…
