Off to War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review
Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious distractions. And there is no more obvious distraction...
View ArticleAssault On Campus Free Speech Faces Growing Fightback
The kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil on the pretext of fighting antisemitism is just the start of moves to smash all dissent, but major resistance is mounting.The March arrest of Columbia University...
View ArticleNorman Finkelstein EXPOSES Israel’s Hidden Agenda on Piers Morgan
Norman Finkelstein breaks down how Israel’s “humanitarian aid” to Gaza was a smokescreen for a massacre — a prediction he made on Piers Morgan. He explores global fallout, real left politics & AI....
View ArticleCorporate Pride Is Dying. Good.
As Pride month kicks off under a hostile federal government that takes its cues from a homophobic and transphobic far-right movement, the typical steady drip of rainbow-painted logos and feel-good news...
View ArticleIs There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide?
After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift—but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United...
View ArticleNevada Vets Protest Being Sent to A Healthcare Desert
The new leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington has taken a lot of heat lately from VA patients, their care-givers, and members of Congress opposed to cuts in jobs and...
View ArticleThis Year, Flag Day Is ‘No Kings Day’
“Nah, he wouldn’t really do that.” I’ve lived in the Upper Delaware Valley for five years, first in Pike County, Pennsylvania, and now in Sullivan County, New York. My county went 58% for Trump last...
View ArticleSocial Self-Defense: From Protest to Movement-Based Opposition
Resistance to the second Trump regime was slow to start but is now emerging in myriad forms. They range from communities organizing to protect immigrants, trans kids, and political dissenters to...
View ArticleGaza’s ‘Humanitarian’ Façade: A Deceptive Ploy Unravels
The decision resonated as shocking for all sides. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose entire war strategy hinges on the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, unilaterally decided on May 19...
View ArticleThe War on Thought: Higher Education and the Fight Against Authoritarianism
According to the 2024 Democracy Index, approximately 45% of the world’s population now resides in democracies, yet only 8% live in full democracies. The rise in authoritarian regimes is particularly...
View ArticleTrump Budget Bill Would Lead to 51,000 More Deaths Each Year, as Health...
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” now before the Senate could result in over 51,000 preventable deaths each year in the United States. That’s according to public health experts at Yale and...
View ArticleNot Just the Living: How the Baloch Dead Are Made to Disappear
On 2nd May 2025, in the scorching heat of Turbat, women and children blocked the road at D-Baloch Kech, they demanded, not missing persons or natural resources but the return of missing dead bodies....
View ArticlePanama’s Mass Strike Movement Confronts Trump’s Canal Grab
Panama is the sharpest point of class struggle on the continent, and how it develops and ends will be very important for the relationship between Latin America and Trump’s imperialist policy. In...
View ArticleCitizen Mercenaries and the Gaza Genocide
It is, of course, nice to see Canada, the UK and France finally developing a conscience over what multiple international institutions and prominent scholarly experts have concluded. That is, the...
View ArticleTrump and Rubio Tighten the Noose on Cuba
Cuba is once again facing a severe, multi-faceted crisis, not due to the hurricanes that pummel through the Caribbean every year, but from the relentless and suffocating pressure exerted by its...
View ArticleTake It from Turkish Workers: You Don’t Want a Strongman
What has happened to workers in Turkey since the country voted to concentrate power in one man, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, should be a warning flashing red to workers elsewhere. “When democracy...
View ArticleEvery Day Should Be No Kings Day
A would-be king wants a coronation on June 14, a date already laden with meaning: Flag Day, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, and, yes, Donald J. Trump’s 79th birthday. But this...
View ArticleThe Hidden Story: Israeli ‘Aid’ Is Part of Genocide Plan
Israeli tanks opened fire last Sunday on a crowd of thousands of starving Palestinians at an aid distribution center in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The victims had gathered in hopes...
View ArticleWe Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
Reports about the daily drama of the second Trump administration often feel less like normal political news than recaps of a reality TV show. This is an administration where the actual official name of...
View ArticleBuilding Real Student Power
Student movements have been essential to social progress in the United States for more than a century. Over the past year we have entered a new cycle of activism on college campuses. Students are...
View ArticleThe Far Right’s Tipping Point
Beginning in the late 1980s, Eastern Europe shifted from being a political backwater to a political bellwether. By shrugging off the Soviet yoke and exiting communism, the region pointed toward the...
View ArticleThe Palestine Exception on Campus
I had conversations with student organizers at NYU, the City College of New York, the University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, and Spelman College, from mid-May to early June, and see patterns in...
View ArticleSupporters Rally Behind Political Prisoners Who Stopped White Supremacist Attack
An upcoming clemency hearing will determine the near-term fate of Christopher “Naeem” Trotter, a political prisoner who has been held captive for over 40 years as punishment for a spontaneous act of...
View ArticleTrump’s Greatest Con Is Genocide
Among all the cons that Donald Trump has pushed on the world, none has compared to his plan for facilitating genocide in Gaza. While his administration has continued providing Israel with the weapons...
View ArticleCriminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Work, Housing People Does
In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced to vacate Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest — or else face a $5,000 fine and up to...
View ArticleFrench Dock Workers Block Arms Shipment to Israel
French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, are blocking the shipment of military equipment bound for Israel, protesting the Israeli military’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, France...
View ArticleZohran Mamdani’s Canvassing Operation Is What Democracy Looks Like
Polls are notoriously fickle things, but recent ones in the New York City mayoral race have been fairly consistent: socialist candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, after ten rounds of...
View ArticleDon’t Fund the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: It’s a Genocidal Smokescreen
Recent reports say that US AID is considering giving $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—an “aid” initiative launched at Israel’s request. At first glance, that might sound like a...
View ArticleThe Resistance That Is Rising
We live amidst lunacy that kills. Calm, reasoned reports of escalating state criminality are part of ending state criminality. Ditto for deep diving conceptual analyses. And also for historical...
View ArticleTime For Non-violent Civil Disobedience
What is our moral responsibility as citizens of the United States when the President of the United States moves to deploy thousands of American soldiers against us? Trump signed a memo late yesterday...
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