Reasonable people wonder if it was a coincidence the escalation (and now fragile ceasefire) of the massively unpopular, senseless, illegal US-Israeli war…
On April 7, the Prime Minister of Pakistan posted on X a call for an ‘extension of the deadline,’ following Donald Trump’s…
Flotillas have historically been fleets of military vessels—tools of empire designed for swift offensive or defensive operations at sea. The images they…
Israel’s latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut…
Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon’t stand in the doorwayDon’t block up the hall… Bob Dylan A two-week truce. We’ve temporarily slipped from…
After losing the 16 November 2025 referendum—when the Ecuadorian people rejected the government’s four questions, including the one that opened the door…
It’s quite remarkable how unaware most liberals and Democrats are about their own party’s facilitation of Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaigns, and the…
The United States has agreed with Iran to cease hostilities for two weeks. The illegal US and Israeli imposed war has not…
“It is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in…
As a citizen of the United States – a collection of isolated individuals who have unconditionally surrendered to The Fascist States of…
Major unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and citizen groups like Indivisible and Public Citizen are calling…
Israel tortured a one-year-old baby. They burned him with cigarettes and drove nails through his feet as a form of torture during…
A ceasefire can stop planes from flying and missiles from landing. It cannot restore the security order that failed to prevent the…
On April 1st, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the class-action lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright…
From the raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at U.S. airports to the approval of the controversial Return Regulation in…
The knives are out—and this time, they are not aimed at Tehran, but at Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the ever…
In spring 2026, elections to German works councils took place in which workers voted as workers and not as trade union members…
The moment a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran was announced—brokered through Pakistani mediation on April 7—Iran declared that Lebanon was…
After threatening to destroy Iran’s civilization ‘for now and ever’, Trump announced a tentative ceasefire with Iran and temporary ceasefire of mutual…
When I was in High School, I used to wonder how did the German people put up with Hitler and his regime?…
On March 30, 2026, the Israeli Knesset passed a law imposing death by hanging on Palestinians convicted by military courts in cases…
One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a mark of moral sophistication—is the tendency to place the…
A pox of optimism has infected climate reporting in late years, and one of the Iran War’s unremarked casualties is that it…
America was formally born on July 4, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but the USA was not born until September 17,…
Last August, in a piece published on ZNet, I argued that Trump is a fascist, but more specifically, borrowing from the language…
It was the largest protest in US history. More than 3300 rallies in all 50 states and more on every continent across the globe. It’s an understatement…
When the US backed dictator of Iran, Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979 and the Islamic Republic led by the…
Income inequality has been escalating in this country since around 1980 and continues to get worse. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing since…
China’s conduct in the UN Security Council often disappoints those who expect it to openly confront what they see as an unrestrained…
After decades of bipartisan deference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the likely contenders for the next Democratic presidential nomination…
I was honored to be in Paris with 40,000 attendees at this amazing summit of changemakers towards a livable planet: https://www.changenow.world/ I spoke to…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya…
As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take…
In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the…
“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.” It is…
The foisting of a Jewish state in the heart of Palestine was an arrogant imperial decision that has left a trail of…
The Airwaves Radio was introduced commercially in 1920, when the Westinghouse Corp. launched station KDKA in Pittsburg. Other stations followed. Because transmission…
I am frustrated. I’ve written an article, and I know it’s good because the editors who rejected it actually loved it. They…
In 2006, I returned to Northwest Indiana and reconnected with family and friends after processing out of the United States Marine Corps.…
In Silivri Prison, more than three and a half years had passed since I wrote a transfer petition at the urging of…
I’m pretty certain, based on experiences and study, that a very big majority of US Americans who understand the need for progressive,…
On 29 January, Donald Trump published an Executive Order in which he described Cuba as “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the…
30,000 Americans, “pissed off” at the increasingly reckless and ruthless actions and policies of Trump, marched in the 3rd No Kings protest…
“Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got…
Legend has it that tanks – the Germans call them Panzer – were introduced during World War I as Britain’s armoured vehicles,…
Modern economies depend on a range of essential inputs that are not fully priced or exchanged in markets. These include ecosystem functions—such…
In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died…
It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent…
We are living through times where the architecture of global peace is not merely crumbling; it is being deliberately dismantled. The drums…
