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…
Who taught leading South Africa sports officials and politicians world-class corruption; specifically, how to buy hosting rights to the FIFA Soccer World…
The numbers are in. Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin. The planet is now 1.48 degrees Celsius…
When United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain called for a ceasefire in Israel’s assault on Gaza in mid-December, his union was…
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets…
Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent’s Chip Gibbons about the right to protest for the January 5, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a…
On Jan 11, South Africa presented its case against Israel at the ICJ. Here are two important clips from the case: Notable…
On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case against…
Without any doubt, Germany is the country with the most excessive version of the far right – Nazism – the world has…
An avalanche of polling shows Joe Biden with abysmal approval ratings and grim re-election prospects, but Democratic leaders keep spinning away in dreamland. Even before the…
Thousands of miles separate Uganda and Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional…
In 1863, the Russian social critic, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, published a novel entitled “What Is to Be Done?” Its story revolves around a…
Johannesburg – John Pilger, who died in his hometown of Sydney aged 84 on December 30, was a unique journalist, equipped with…
The vast majority of Congress members have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza during three months of slaughter by Israel’s…
South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice to institute proceedings against Israel for its genocidal attack on Gaza makes for…
Since the start of the current attacks on Gaza, Israel has enjoyed unequivocal support from the European states and the USA. In…
This article was written shortly before Israel assassinated the Deputy Head of Hamas Political Bureau Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut on January 2.…
Americans have been on a vacation binge since the easing of COVID-19 lockdowns, traveling for leisure in record numbers, and generating a major boom…
To the astute observer, it might indeed appear as if the free market is (a bit like) God – for there are…
Did that get your attention? A new Netflix series on John Gotti, the notorious late leader of the Cosa Nostra’s (Mafia’s) Gambino…
