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The Real Scandal of Yemen Bombing Is Not That They Used the Wrong App
The Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah, are the de facto government in northwest Yemen. The group began as a religious movement among the Zaydis, an idiosyncratic branch of Shia Islam, before...
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Why Is the World Bank Attacking Land Reform in the Philippines?
When the Peoples’ Power movement brought down Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, land reform was one of its most important demands. But even after Corazon Aquino had been elected President...
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Trump Promised Free Speech Defense and Delivered the Opposite
After more than a decade of liberal-driven censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump’s second election win was meant to have, in his own words, “saved free speech in America,” starting with an...
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Yoon’s Impeachment Ratified: A New Era For South Korean Democracy?
South Korea’s Constitutional Court finally ratified former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment on April 4, 111 days after parliament voted to remove him for his attempted December 3 self-coup....
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Germany in Crisis —The Lost Man of Europe
This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and how Germans think about finding their way forward once again. I thank...
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Elon Musk’s Goal Isn’t Efficiency — It’s a Liquidation Sale
Earlier this week, the Economist asked plaintively whether Elon Musk was fixing the federal government, as promised, or destroying it. “This newspaper looked forward to what Mr Musk might do with some...
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Palestine Is Not So Complicated
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World (2024) “Either apartheid is right or wrong. It’s really, really simple,” the Black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates replied to a CBS Morning Show anchor. One of the...
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AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It
In recent weeks, hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. have received emails from the Department of State informing them that they must leave the country. This “catch and revoke” program is being...
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How To Effectively Pressure A Reluctant United Nations
As opinions on the Trump-Musk forced closure of USAID reverberate across the world — with progressive members of Congress protesting at the headquarters, and critics from the left highlighting its...
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Unions Need to Mount a Militant Response to Trump’s Assault
In its statement responding to Donald Trump’s deunionization of most federal workers — voiding existing collective bargaining agreements, canceling their right to negotiate new ones, and eliminating...
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Millions March Against Trump-Musk in Nationwide ‘Hands Off’ Protests
In communities across the United States and also overseas, coordinated “Hands Off” protests are taking place far and wide Saturday in the largest public rebuke yet to President Donald Trump and top...
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Are the Trumpistas Seeking To Shrink the IRS — or Actually Sink It?
Conservative economists have been treating the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith as their “free market” hero for quite some time now. But in his own time, as Steve Wamhoff of the progressive...
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Europe Must Pivot from NATO to the UN, in Order to Save It
Whilst there has been much discussion in the media in the past month on the re-militarization of Europe, there is conversely an 80-year-old international peace organization whose name I have heard...
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Trump Pushes Geopolitics of Oil on Caribbean
The Trump administration is organizing a network of energy-producing states in the Caribbean to provide the region with a steady supply of fossil fuels, despite the environmental risks. Hoping to...
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Can Our Richest Dodge the Climate-Change Bullet?
So where do you see yourself living the rest of your life? The richest among us are keeping their options all open. On the one hand, our deepest pockets are buying up new super-luxury abodes as if the...
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Behind Trump’s Spiralling Tariff War: an Interview With Marxist Economist...
Michael Roberts is a Marxist economist who worked in the City of London for more than 40 years and writes on economic issues at The Next Recession. He is also the author of The Long Depression: Marxism...
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How Amazon Workers Can Organise Globally
When will Amazon workers around the world enjoy collective bargaining agreements with good pay, union job rights, and safety protections? The challenges facing this lofty goal remain daunting. One only...
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Breaking the Silence on Palestinian Armed Struggle: A Call for Legal Clarity
On February 22, 2024, China’s Ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. His testimony, like that of a number of others, was meant to help the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...
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Trump Must Go!
“Millions” and “2.3 million”—these are the numbers I am seeing from national organizers of the historic April 5 Hands Off demonstrations yesterday in 1300 or more localities around the country, with...
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Boards and Administrators Won’t Defend Higher Ed From Trump. It’s Up to Us.
In 2023-2024, students in solidarity with Palestine launched the largest campus movement in the U.S. since the anti-Vietnam War protests, and chapters of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine and...
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Trump Tariffs Seen From Contradictory Angles
Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation Day,’ April 2, are...
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A Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts?
In a major labor victory, the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools Monday night that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach...
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Reading, England – A Town in Transition, and Local Community Resilience
A large town, not yet a city, Reading (UK) is typically seen as a commuter hub, with thousands travelling into London every day to get to work. Reading itself may seem unexceptional, even bland, with...
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Spain’s Housing Crisis Boils Over
Outrage over property profiteering and government inaction showed its strength and mobilising power on 5 April, with 42 demonstrations demanding lower rents or the implementation of indefinite...
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Will Trump Keep His Promise to End the War in Ukraine?
“Ironically, it was the US under President Trump which has broken with the US national security establishment’s bi-partisan strategy of incremental encirclement and escalation against Russia. That...
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UN Exposes Systematic Israeli Rape of Palestinians
On March 13th, the UN Human Rights High Commission published a horrifying report exposing in oft-emetic detail how the Zionist entity has employed “sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based...
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Viewpoint: Why Oligarchs Want a Recession
A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of...
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Israel: Outpost or Country?
In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of terrorism, while those that commit unspeakable crimes,...
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Mass Struggles, Organised Labour and the Left In 21st Century Nigeria
Working-class people and youths have waged struggles of great significance over the last twenty-five years. These have been mass resistance that transformed into counter-offensives of the exploited...
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You and Your Neighbors Can Help Change the World
United Neighbors of the 35th Ward didn’t wait for Inauguration Day to start working to keep our people safe from wrongful detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. As a hyperlocal...
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