At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media…
Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more…
Civilians, including children, were massacred on one side of the border between Israel and Gaza. Now terror and death crash through Gaza,…
In Sinjar, a small town in Northern Iraq, the consequences of genocide and war linger heavy. Nearly a decade ago, in August…
The crumbling, pothole-filled highways and roads across Guatemala have been shut down, blocked, and barricaded by protesters for more than a week . These…
There are two competing narratives about the origins of the Ukraine War. According to one narrative, Vladimir Putin is a Hitler-like aggressor.…
Without soul or memory, Europe is incapable of seeing the similarity between the images of death and destruction in the Warsaw ghetto,…
More than half a million fast-food workers in California are about to get a raise—not because of the voluntary generosity of their…
Before the right-wing mobs stormed the US Capitol, the radical right thugs had to be moved from, what sociologists call, a willingness…
The Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how systemic racism disproportionately places danger and harm on low-income and…
Looking at Israeli and Western media coverage 1 of Hamas resistance against Israel epitomises Orwell’s problem; “[that] is to explain why we know and…
Climate activists from across the Balkans and beyond came together at the end of August for the 2nd annual Adriatic Climate Camp,…
Regardless of the precise strategy of the Palestinian group Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring Palestinian military…
We are each and all ignorant of a great many things. How could it be otherwise. We are people with limited time,…
While the bluster about cluster bombs covers the subject of murder with liberal prattle about how it’s committed, one of humanity’s oldest…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats…
Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test. A…
When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s…
Since 1964, most of the countries in the Sahel region (a word of Arabic origin, meaning margin, which refers to the northern…
The first part of this two part essay, inspired by the multi authored Twenty Theses for Liberation, urged the need for flexible, continually…
Leticia Ortega de Ceballos sleeps in her car during weekdays, enabling her to work two housekeeping jobs, one at the Loews Hollywood…
American society is steeped in narratives about economic prosperity shaped by capitalist ideas of individualism and a corporate culture of exploitation. Children…
On 3 October, the Indian state launched the biggest crackdown on the press since independence. 46 journalists and their families were woken…
Washington, D.C. – A group of 50 activists and Vermont constituents staged a sit-in inside Senator Bernie Sanders’ office on Wednesday, demanding the…
A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights. The word ‘new’ is not…
We who desire a better world act within countless organizations, projects, campaigns, and movements each siloed from and often even competing with…
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. follows through on his apparent plans to run for president in the fall 2024 general election, that…
Every year, the world’s governments gather at what the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, calls a Conference of…
Tens of thousands of climate protesters gathered in Midtown Manhattan on September 17, kicking off Climate Week as President Joe Biden arrived…
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal…
The United States federal government in 2020 embarked on a grand and beautiful experiment: expanding the use of tax dollars to help…
“Climate breakdown has begun. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. (Source: 2024 Likely to be Hottest…
Two interesting things happened at the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. Several new members were invited to join BRICS in…
Jericho does not belong to the Palestinians alone. It belongs to the whole of humanity. For Israel, however, the recognition by UNESCO of Jericho…
When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the U.S. Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation’s first federally approved wilderness of more than 500,000 acres…
Carl Sagan, an astronomer and a humanist, would have been heartened by the march of tens of thousands in Manhattan as a pushback against…
Last month CNN published a poll revealing 55% of people surveyed in the United States do not support spending more money on the Ukraine war. A…
Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a candidate for re-election. With…
In The Death of Expertise, national security expert Tom Nichols warns that knowledge is under attack by an ill-informed public determined to replace…
From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy…
In a speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, presidential candidate and reactionary bigot Pat Buchanan predicted a “Culture War” for the…
Is it possible to grow food without exploiting animals in gardening/homesteading and farming systems? Even if we do not keep domesticated animals,…
This is Part 5 in a 5-part history series focusing on US imperialism, globalization and neo-liberal economics across the world over the…
Rich Men North Of Richmond is the title of the hugely popular Oliver Anthony folk/country song that has incredibly rocketed to number…
It’s a tiny little thing, smaller than the fire ant whose body it has just sabotaged. The Phorid fly, often called “the…
Thank you for inviting me, and it is an honor for me to be here with you today. Let me thank the…
What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is not that at all, but a direct outcome of outright…
“Radical hedonism and unlimited egotism could not have emerged as guiding principles of economic behaviour had not a drastic change occurred in…
It had never struck me until recently how many environmental activist groups there are. Within the U.S. alone, there are around 28,000different environmental…
On the few occasions where activists have directly restrained imperialist policies their partial victories have been twisted to reinforce benevolent Canadian mythology.…
