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…
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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…
After the Israeli Parliament passed the law in 2018 referred to as a “breach of the duty of loyalty,” the Ministry of…
When the Office of the United States Trade Representative recently announced proposed tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 global…
Despite the raving reviews for the new, and apparently monumental, film The Odyssey, there is something that much of the mainstream media…
Most of this article, like the prior related ones, was conceived and written back in the early 1970s and excerpted from a…
The most talked-about film in the country climaxes with an American vigilante methodically murdering ten Syrian refugees in their apartment. Citizen Vigilante was banned in Germany…
At the World Inequality Conference in June, the renowned economist Thomas Piketty and a team of 45 researchers from the World Inequality…
When word came down that USAID was being dismantled in Nicaragua, I was sorting through old documents amid the chaos of the…
It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests of another state basking…
A Record-Setting Pace Wars in Iran, Ukraine, and Israel have drawn attention away from a stark fact: armed conflict is on the…
Yesterday marked one month since the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, where celebrities, former presidents, first ladies, and various other elites…
A recent Wall Street Journal headline screamed “Big Banks’ Profits Surge After a Red-Hot Quarter on Wall Street.” The Big Five of…
The modern Middle East suffers from a consequentially glaring paradox: oil-rich Arab states undoubtedly possess some of the most concentrated geopolitical and…
As a journalist and political prisoner, the entire “heavy” burden of Room 3 in Ward B10 of Silivri Prison, which I had…
The history of warfare shows that conflicts end either with a clear victory by one side or through negotiations when both face…
On July 10, President Donald Trump announced something that should have stopped Washington in its tracks: The United States would continue negotiations…
He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate…
I was tense. Not mildly interested. Not casually curious. Genuinely tense. As the World Cup Final entered its closing minutes, every attack…
There are just over three weeks left before Abelardo De La Espriella takes office as Colombia’s new president, despite the numerous allegations…
Introduction: From Military Occupation to Structural Influence Imperial power has not disappeared. Wars, occupations, and military interventions remain central features of the…
When Vladimir Lenin wrote about imperialism and considered it the highest stage of capitalism, he was tracking the moment capital shifted from the space of free…
Walking It Back We once took for granted that everyone concerned with global warming outside the Trump administration’s orbit accepted the scientists’…
A landscape is not a thing. It is a network of relationships — between water and soil, between architecture and climate, between…
In Trump’s America the Greentech Revolution is being waged from below. Although Trump’s attacks have slowed the advance of fossil-free technologies in…
Bolivia has been rocked since early May by strikes, mass marches, and road blockades across the country as people demand the resignation…
Terry Stickles supported the successful union drive at JSW Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio, in 2025, then went to the bargaining table…
As a community organizer and environmental activist for over 15 years, I’ve often used the metaphor that “we are spinning on a…
On March 1, 1945, only six weeks before his death, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress that pointed…
I recently drove to a gas station in Massachusetts to fill my tank with regular gas, the cheapest around, and, to my…
On March 4, 2026, a U.S. warship torpedoed and sank the unarmed Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The…
After Miami-based firm Affinity Partners secured their first building permit for major developments on Albania’s coast on April 29, outrage in the…
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to…
While Trump conducts his war against Greentech, many US states are forging ahead with energy expansion based on sun, wind, and water.…
Sixty one years ago, July 30, 1965, Congress enacted Medicare to provide health insurance for people ages 65 and older and the…
My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria,…
