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Gaza’s Hunger Games
Israel’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of Gen. Efraín...
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More Loss, More Damages: Africa In the Green Transition
What is the green in the green transition? Between September 4 and 6, 2023, the first Africa Climate Summit was held in Nairobi, Kenya, co-hosted by the African Union. Bringing Nairobi to a standstill,...
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Why We Should Pay Attention to Gerta Keller’s Battle with the Alvarez Impact...
I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in...
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Mamdani’s Magnificent Primary Win—What Follows
People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s victory was so...
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ONE Northside Celebrates Chicago’s New Green Social Housing Ordinance
ONE Northside in Chicago is celebrating two hard-won victories: the city just passed a Green Social Housing Ordinance, which will spur the construction of affordable and environmentally sustainable...
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BLF’s Coordinated Offensives Mark a Strategic Shift in Baloch Armed Resistance
The recent surge in coordinated offensives by the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) reveals a clear evolution in the armed struggle in Balochistan. Over recent weeks, the BLF has intensified its...
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The UNSC Is Dead. Long Live the UNGA!
With the USA’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities on 22 June 2025 (and I specify the date, because Trump is actively threatening further attacks), the USA not only violated UN Charter Article 2 (“All...
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The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani From Becoming...
The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York last...
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Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson)
Rob Larson breaks down how the hyper-concentration of wealth that pervades American society is making life worse for everyone (except the rich). He says that tax breaks, deregulation and other...
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Trans People and the New World that Struggles to be Born
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” — Antonio Gramsci Crisis after crisis unfolds as our communities seek pathways to power, if not simple...
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On a Dying Multilateralism
The recent unilateral strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been so for some time. It is not only when it comes to...
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The Crime Scene in the Senate: How a Tax Giveaway Threatens American Lives
“This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT). “[W]e’re debating a bill that’s going to cut healthcare for...
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Trump, Musk, Republicans, and the Empathy Bug
During a three-hour interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan some months ago, Elon Musk revealed the core of the ideology animating the richest person in the world. “The fundamental weakness of Western...
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Feeding the Warfare State
The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that...
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AgTech for Agroecology
I was invited to contribute to the Advanced Lecture Series at Tongji University, in Shanghai. These high-level, cross-disciplinary lectures are organized by the Graduate School. I thank them for this...
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On Zohran Mamdani and Taxi Drivers
Pinch me! Last Tuesday Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo decisively in the Democratic primary for Mayor of NYC and I am still in profound and happy shock. It seemed impossible that anyone would beat...
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s Hallucinations
By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in The Hague in June 2025, it became clear that everything was about money. In fact, the final communiqué was perhaps...
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Think Like a Commoner
In his book, ‘Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons,’ independent scholar David Bollier shows how the idea of commons — that which belongs to or affects the whole of a...
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By Ruling Against Nationwide Injunctions, SCOTUS Affirms the Imperial Presidency
Continuing in their shameful deference to the president, Donald Trump’s lackeys on the Supreme Court once again affirmed the superiority of the executive over the other two branches of government. Last...
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In the Name of Humanity, We Declare Our Independence From Trump’s Fascist...
This statement, authored by Paul Street on behalf of the organization Refuse Fascism: A Declaration of Independence from Trump’s Fascist America, will be read and delivered outside the Whitehouse In...
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Palantir’s Shadow War on Iran
As the dust settles on the “12 Day War”, it is ever-clearer that the conflict was a crushing defeat for Israel and the US. In retrospect, the Zionist entity’s sole success was a wave of assassinations...
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Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Contest
In a Strike! Commentary posted May 21, 2025 I wrote, it is “likely” that Trump “in the face of declining power and support” will “increasingly utilize repression and violence.” Internally this would...
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No, You Aren’t Hallucinating, the Corporate Plan for AI Is Dangerous
Big tech is working hard to sell us on artificial intelligence, in particular what is called “artificial general intelligence.” At conferences and in interviews corporate leaders describe a...
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UN Report Exposes Companies Aiding Israel’s Genocide, Occupation in Palestine
UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese has released a report naming dozens of companies that bear complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid in Palestine, aiming to show how companies have built...
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4 Charts on the Big Ugly Bill
Senate Republicans are rushing to overcome their own differences and challenges from the parliamentarian to pass their version of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” If the final law is...
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July 4, 2025: The Betrayal of the Declaration of Independence and a Call for...
In 1776, Thomas Paine set a revolutionary tone rejecting the King: “But where, say some, is the King of America? … as far as we approve of monarchy… in America the law is king.” The American Revolution...
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A Declaration of National Redemption and Restitution
When in the course of direst human tribulation, it becomes clear to all the world that the rights a people naturally deserve to enjoy by virtue simply of being human have been repressed and usurped by...
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Israeli Forces Liken Gaza Aid Site Shootings to Game of “Red Light, Green Light”
Israeli soldiers are ordered to treat crowds of Palestinians gathered to receive humanitarian aid in Gaza as a “hostile force” and communicate with the desperate aid seekers by opening fire, according...
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Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran
On Friday, June 13th, Israel launched attacks on Iranian nuclear, military, and civilian targets, just days before the scheduled sixth round of Iran-U.S. nuclear negotiations. The resulting twelve-day...
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“Beneath the Gaza Sky”: Writing to Survive, Remember, and Resist
When I began writing Beneath the Gaza Sky, I was not in Gaza but Gaza never left me. I was thousands of miles away, stranded in Malaysia, having left home just weeks before the war erupted in October...
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