Citizen participation in local affairs can be a wonderful and constructive experience. But at times, when a community is dominated by bigots,…
When Sara Steffens was a young reporter from Oakland, she helped her co-workers at the Contra Costa Times form a new Newspaper Guild bargaining…
For Netanyahu, the frequent deadly raids on Palestinian towns and refugee camps translate into political assets that allow him to keep his…
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Despite the daily media hype about artificial intelligence (AI), there still is a rather sobering reality of AI. This is the point…
When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope…
Kathy Kelly provides her reflections on Jeffery E. Stern’s book The Mercenary, A Story of Brotherhood & Terror in the Afghanistan War.…
It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how…
One thing I was grateful for during the pandemic was masks — and not just for safety reasons. I’m on Medicare for…
By May 2023, the European Parliament’s committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) has voted to strengthen its legislative proposal…
Workers at Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Georgia, launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance, and a voice…
We have hit an organizational dead end in the progressive social change movement, just when we are also facing terminal threats to…
Though the United States remains a strong supporter of Israel, there are some indications that the supposed ‘unbreakable bond’ with Tel Aviv…
For at least half a century, at least once every decade in the English-speaking democracies of the West there’s been a moral…
Outrage continues over Justice Neil Gorsuch’s recent remarks that policy responses to COVID-19 may represent “the greatest intrusion of civil liberties in…
Two recent exposés about child labor in the United States highlight how prevalent the once-outlawed practice has become. In February, the New York…
[On May 1 2023, various media outlets and organizations co-published an essay titled 20 Theses for Liberation. Thirty progressive activists initially signed it.…
Part One: When I was initially asked to sign onto the Twenty Theses for Liberation, my first thought was, “Why not?” I…
Patty Chayefsky’s film Network, an acid-laced spoof of capitalist media, reaches its climax when Chairman Arthur Jensen, leader of the fictional mega-corporation…
It should come as no surprise that the world is currently facing an existential nuclear danger. In fact, it has been caught…
When the new House majority passed its grab bag of government spending cuts last month, setting up an on-going game of chicken…
The recent election for Mayor of Philadelphia was very disappointing for progressive activists who with good reason had to believe their candidate…
Among the many troubling trends in US-China relations these days is the lack of high-level diplomatic engagement. Until a few weeks ago,…
In anticipation of next month’s United Nations Security Council talks on reforming the inherently archaic and dysfunctional political body, China’s foreign policy…
Has the South African government unequivocally sided with Russia, as witnessed not just in February’s joint military exercises (alongside China) but also…
As the planet’s biggest investor, with $9 trillion in assets under management and an army of tech-savvy analysts trained on the scent…
“. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .” These words stick in my heart…
In Sweden, as in many other countries, employers are attacking the collective agreements (or the labor contracts, as it’s called in North…
On May 16, 2023, The New York Times published a full-page advertisement signed by 15 U.S. national security experts about the war…
My fellow Americans: I’ve changed my mind. With a heavy heart, I am announcing that I will not seek or accept the…
All Israeli wars on the Palestinians throughout the years have been promotedand justified by Tel Aviv in the name of ‘security’ and…
Ideas about men and manhood have been evolving for more than 50 years, but Sen. Josh Hawley has not gotten the message.…
Donald Trump is about as useless as a tastebud on an anus. Anyone who has paid attention to the verdict in the…
Eerily, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott inadvertently reminded us of the international nature of this scourge when he referred to five recent murder…
20 Theses for Liberation was co-published by multiple outlets on 1 May. Co-authored by 30 progressive activists (of which I am one) and…
The past few months have brought with them some diplomatic triumphs on the world stage, not one of them attributable to the…
In 1967 Martin Luther King put Black people’s lives in this country into a mathematical formula: Black people, said Dr. King, were…
Recently Canada’s Liberal government announced $13 billion in support to attract Volkswagen to establish an electric car battery production facility halfway between…
First of all, conspiracy theories aren’t theories. They are more like fantasies – conspiracy fantasies. And they are not theories in our…
Recently, there has been plenty of rather sensational news about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it will change work. Some have even…
The US-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance began in 1953, at the end of the Korean War. Now 70 years later, President Biden…
It’s understandable that, when the Senate Dems need 50 of their 51 members to vote on something for it to pass, Joe…
In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans that the decline the United…
On May 1 2023, various media outlets and organizations co-published an essay titled 20 Theses for Liberation. Thirty progressive activists initially signed it.…
A succession of events starting in Barcelona, Spain, in February, and followed in Liège, Belgium, and Oslo, Norway, in April sent a…
A common refrain from those who advocate under the banner of Degrowth, admittedly a somewhat diverse bunch, is that their opponents mischaracterize…
Hey China, quit threatening us! We’ll kick your ass. Yeah, bad China, maybe worse than Russia, e.g.: “The People’s Republic of China,…
The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that long preceded the Russian-Ukraine war, and the recent US-Chinese…
When the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW AKA The Wobblies) was established in 1905, their goal was to see ‘ One…
Last year the City Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania passed a law by a near-unanimous vote to establish the Philadelphia Public Financial Authority,…
