In an influential 1963 pamphlet titled “The Two Souls of Socialism,” the Marxist revolutionary, Hal Draper, said “socialism” encompassed three tendencies. First,…
The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders…
I believe the only force capable of improving workers’ living conditions – and ultimately the force to abolish class society – are…
A chain of Debka dancers links between pregnant olive trees. The harvest itself is no cause for dancing. Olive harvest yields alternate…
The current notion of a “moderate Republican” is an oxymoron that helps to move the country rightward. Last week, every one of…
Unlike the way more important Kinsey (without the “Mc”) – the most brilliant sex research institute of the 1950s – the McKinsey…
More than 60 years ago, as many are aware, civil rights activists began organizing to desegregate businesses in Birmingham, Alabama. By the…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
Kevin McCarthy’s pursuit of power put him into quite a predicament. He was willing to give up anything in concessions to pick…
China offers a threatening alternative model of development that is non-capitalist, non-Western, and non-colonial. As such, it undermines the West’s neocolonial domination…
On the 8th of this month, a week after the inauguration of President Lula da Silva, an event took place in Brasília…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
A famous economist Lionel Robbins, who was no radical, wrote “…the validity of a particular theory is a matter of its logical…
Lula da Silva was inaugurated for a third non-consecutive term as president of Brazil, dramatically reversing the country’s trajectory of the past…
When the newsstand of Giuseppe Trani was swept away by massive flooding that devastated the southern Italian town of Casamicciola, near Naples,…
With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their party’s voters don’t want President Biden…
From the Dept. of Horrible Chutzpah During the fight over the new House Speaker election, Congress member Chip Roy (R-TX), who voted against the…
With the two-party duopoly of neo-fascist Republicans and neo-liberal Democrats choking any meaningful changes to the American political system, many progressive, independent…
What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles? The national direction is quietly predetermined — it’s not up for debate. The president’s…
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and…
The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues, with no policy solution in sight. During the 2022 fiscal year, nearly 2.4 million migrants were apprehended…
Texas Governor Greg Abbot’s Christmas Eve political stunt of sending busloads of desperate immigrants, including women and children, to Vice President Harris’…
Happy New Year from Z Friend, Ted Glick and BeyondExtremeEnergy @BXEAction A rain-soaked, straggly but passionate group of 8 climate justice activists,…
Two years ago, Morocco and Israel signed the US-brokered “Joint Declaration”, thus officially recognizing Israel and instating diplomatic ties. Though other Arab…
Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients,…
On December 27 2022, both Russia and Ukraine issued calls for ending the war in Ukraine, but only on non-negotiable terms that…
Without a hairs’ breadth in between, the world lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis and the worst…
Michael Albert is interviewed by Matic Primc (first posted by Dialogi) As crises around the world threaten ultimate calamity, what can we…
An unfolding situation in Agadir, Morocco, demonstrates how the COVID pandemic continues to severely affect the workers staffing the global tourism and…
In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Area’s Lawrence Livermore National Lab recently achieved the long-sought goal of…
Russia’s war upon Ukraine should remind us that violent international conflicts not only persist, but constitute a plague upon the world. Over…
My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing…
The attempt by the local ANC – working with the police, private security, the anti-land invasion unit and forces within the prosecuting…
As twisted, meaningless, and as camouflaging the language of managerial bullshit speech is, it still moves on rather relentlessly. Its deeply ideological…
Americans are being slammed by a “tripledemic” this holiday season as three major respiratory illnesses—COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)—are spreading…
Preface to essay It is quite fitting that the publication of this essay is happening in a time when social media corporations…
A simple wish to be free from harm is not something that we are all granted at this time. Not all of…
This article is an introduction to Solarpunk as a vision, culture and movement of radical hope. Part explainer, part analysis, and part…
Several months ago I heard long-time progressive activist George Lakey speak on a zoom call. One of the main issues he addressed was political…
Threshold question: should we hold trials or join Joe Stalin like he proposed after WWII for Hitler and his Hit Men, and…
Nested in the working-class El Valle barrio in Caracas, the 5 de Marzo Commune is a project that explores new ways to empower an…
Recall your attention to the response from the US establishment after Russia was found to be using Iranian drones in the war…
Lula da Silva’s victory in this year’s Brazilian presidential election marks a significant political shift not only in Brazil, which spent the past three…
The underlying theme of this essay is that new ideas have intellectual value largely in proportion to their impact on further new…
In late November, a fire broke out in an apartment building in Urumqi, Xinjiang, a predominantly Uyghur community in China, that resulted in at…
Iran has arrived at a moment of explosive but contradictory developments and the people have become aware of a break with normal…
During our visits to Kabul, Afghanistan from 2009 to 2019, young friends who welcomed me and other international guests to their urban…
On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo sat in his office on what would be the last day of his presidency of Peru.…
In the wake of the nine-month-old Russian war against the Ukraine, a country most take little note of has emerged: Belarus. Besides…
