Let a Global Movement for Nonviolent Social and Personal Transformation...
The vast majority of the world’s population – those who were not previously aware of the dreadful plight of the Palestinian people since their land was essentially stolen from them in an agreement...
View ArticleOpposed to Genocide in Gaza, This Is the Conscience of a Nation Speaking...
Common Dreams Editor’s Note: This is a transcript of remarks made by Professor Rashid Khalidi just outside the gates of Columbia University on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, just hours after NYPD officers...
View ArticleGlobal Inequality Has Skyrocketed Since the Pandemic
The billionaire once Warren Buffet famously said, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” New analysis released by Oxfam this week...
View ArticleUN Food Chief Says Northern Gaza Suffering ‘Full-Blown Famine’
United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Friday that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of Israeli...
View ArticleCan the UAW Turn It Around for Labor in the South?
The United Auto Workers recently scored the largest union victory in decades in the South. Their success at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant could be a turning point for labor in a region long known for...
View ArticleWe Need “Outside Agitators”
These days, outside agitators are everywhere. According to politicians, police commissioners, university administrators, and mainstream journalists they lurk on every campus where there has been...
View ArticleHow AI Disinformation Poses New Risks to Southern Voters
Earlier this year, thousands of New Hampshire voters received robocalls with audio of what sounded like President Joe Biden’s voice telling them to stay home during the state’s primary election. But...
View ArticleCourageous Students—and You—Should Aim Demands for Peace at Congress This Summer
At many college campuses, students are protesting in opposition to the Biden Administration’s unconditional backing, with weapons and diplomatic cover, of Netanyahu’s continuing serial war crimes...
View ArticleLet Israel’s Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes
One may, of course, reply in the negative to the first question – Israel is not committing any war crimes in Gaza – thereby rendering the rest of the questions superfluous. But how can one answer in...
View ArticleCongress’s Antisemitism Bill Is an Insult to Jewish History
Over the past two weeks, student protests over the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza have been met with brutal police crackdowns. Meanwhile, the campus demonstrations have provoked hysteria...
View ArticleThe Heat’s On – Big Time!
“Nearly nineteen thousand (19,000) weather stations have notched record high temperatures since Jan. 1.” (Source: Earth’s Record Hot Streak Might be a Sign of a New Climate Era, The Washington Post,...
View ArticleBook launch: The Fall and Rise of American Finance
With authors Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher. Moderated by Lenart Nici. Recorded in Toronto, 27 April, 2024. The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is proud to present the launch of the new book...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Issues Bad News for Trump Ahead of Election
Brian Tyler Cohen interviews Senator Bernie Sanders about his message to young people and progressives who may be moving away from Biden, his thoughts on the Republican slate of millionaire...
View ArticleModi, Rahul Gandhi and the Amethi ‘Debate’: Who Is Running Away from Where?
The Bharatiya Janata Party is askance that the Congress does not play to its script. Smriti Irani is crestfallen that her celebrity candidature has been insulted by being given a nondescript adversary....
View Article“To Be Free Is to Free Others”: Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration
We have a long way to go to bring justice to all the individuals who were harmed by the ‘tough on crime,’ zero-tolerance legislation passed in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s,” says Amy Povah, founder and...
View ArticleThe Land and Sea Blockade Against Israel is Working
Israel’s aspirations to become the region’s transportation hub have taken a hit. The maritime and land blockade against Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza is working, as one of Israel’s main plans for...
View ArticleA World in Crisis Requires We Recover the Common Good Beginning in the Places...
A world going in the wrong direction The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they...
View ArticleUS vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?
Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the...
View ArticleThe Colombian Left Has Every Reason to Condemn Israel
On International Workers’ Day, Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first left-wing president, announced that the country would sever diplomatic ties with Israel over its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza....
View ArticleSustainable Food Systems, Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Brussels is currently not the most hopeful place for those wishing to see EU food systems in a fair, ecological transition. But hope is on the ground. Not waiting for the impetus to come from above,...
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