Between now and May 5th, the Florida legislature will vote to codify Governor Ron DeSantis’ proposal to end funding for college diversity…
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The phrase ‘fake news’ continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust…
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. – Matthew 5:9 In a brilliant Op-Ed published…
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“Chief Drake said it was too early to discuss a possible motive for the shooting, though he confirmed that the attack was targeted.…
Imagine we were to assemble in one massive stadium everyone who favors changing societies to attain political, economic, and social justice for…
We’re experiencing disastrous climatic events because we treat the land – metaphorically speaking – like dirt. Nature’s ecosystems regulate climate. In turn,…
The final exchange, caught on camera between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian host and counterpart, Vladimir Putin, sums up…
For three days, 30,000 education workers struck the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest in the nation. Bus drivers, special…
Capitalism, Marx said, is unceasingly prone to crisis. His observation applies as much to financial capital as to industrial capital, as the…
Early in March the sixteenth largest bank in the United States with more than $200 billion in assets experienced a sudden collapse…
The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of…
Reading Bridget Meehan’s moving conundrum about voting in a society where no candidate who represented your convictions has ever stood for any…
Back in November 2022, I was watching the night time news. The headline story was the G20 leaders’ summit taking place in…
Having just observed the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the United States Senate is currently considering S. 316, a…
The scene of Israeli Ambassador, Sharon Bar-Li, along with other Israeli delegates, being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African…
While dread of nuclear war between Russia and NATO states over Ukraine have reached new heights, especially in Europe, a second U.S.…
The title, The Old Folks Home at the College, is from a song lyric. I bet you can guess, or know, the author.…
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in…
The United States and its coalition partners launched the Iraq War in March 2003, and twenty years later pundits and participants alike…
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” So screamed the character Howard Beale in the 1976 movie…
The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America’s schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don’t accept as true what you’re…
Perhaps it’s coincidence, or perhaps it has been of my own subconscious making, but there has been a community of people right…
The Mounting Danger Tensions on the Korean peninsula have reached a new level of intensity. North Korea’s foreign ministry issued a statement…
Thirty-three years after Germany’s re-unification in 1990, many people still see a divided Germany. They see West-Germany and East-Germany with East-Germany being…
In a hypothetical race to claim the mantle of biggest threat to humanity, nuclear war, ecological catastrophe, rising authoritarianism, and new pandemics…
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This is from one of the people I’m least likely to bother quoting: “We need a national divorce. . . From the sick…
The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that China’s top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran…
March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of…
If you’re old enough to remember the slogan “War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things,” then you’re old enough…
Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets…
Even in the era of identity politics, one category of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe Glenton calls “veteranhood.” In the U.S.,…
Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist is the 2022 debut feature of independent British filmmaker Brett Gregory. Despite being…
“My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. It has no room for cowardice or even weakness. There is hope for…
As is the case of long wars, the warring parties and their affiliated media in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have painted each other…
For a decade now, VIOME has been the only self-managed factory in Greece, where workers control the production process. It is a…
The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting…
Is it Russian imperialism or great-power politics that explains Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? And how likely is it that we could see…
This week, when the New York Times featured an opinion piece by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas…
The future tapped me quietly on the shoulder the other day and suggested that I take a moment to learn about the…
Two proposals for bringing peace in Russia’s war on Ukraine were issued on nearly the same day last month: a UN General…
Dear President Biden, My name is Olivia DiNucci and I am the anti-war activist who interrupted your dinner in DC the other…
(Image by Julie Maas) Following the January mobilization to protest the removal from office of Peru’s Indigenous President Pedro Castillo, unofficial reports indicate continuing…
