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A Murder on the Streets Has Fear Rising in the Suites
Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s richest nation — still does not have in place a...
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It’s the End of the World and I Don’t Feel Fine
Fredric Jameson is no longer here to remind us that imagining the end of the world is easier than imagining the end of capitalism, but the just concluded COP29 climate summit has refreshed our memory....
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The Sectarian Risk: Turkiye’s Syrian Mission
Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria, though it is a feeling bound to be tempered by swiftly changing circumstances. Iran’s Shia proxies have been weakened...
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Syrians Are Celebrating Fall of Assad, Even as “the Bigger Picture Is Grim”:...
The fall of the Assad family’s 50-year regime in Syria brings with it “many more questions than answers,” says Syrian American scholar and the executive director of the Arab Studies Institute, Bassam...
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Portrait of the Artist as a People’s Historian: Refaat Alareer
One year and two months into the acceleration of the Israeli military’s ethnic cleansing campaign that major U.S. literary institutions still refuse to call a genocide, late Palestinian poet Refaat...
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Slavery Forever? Alabama Prisoners Fight to Abolish Forced Labor
Five incarcerated people in Alabama are fighting to push forward a lawsuit, Stanley v. Ivey, challenging the state’s power to punish prisoners who resist forced labor. Despite a state constitutional...
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The “Silent Violence” of Corporate Greed and Power
For decades consumer groups have been sounding clarion calls for action against the “silent violence” causing massive casualties that arise from the unbridled power of corporate greed, criminal...
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Millions Demand Imran Khan’s Release as US-Pakistan Plot Backfires
Professor Junaid Ahmad breaks down Pakistan’s massive protests, where despite a total lockdown, hundreds of thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters marched on the capital demanding the...
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Odyssey: Hopes and Dreams
Societies around the globe face multiple crises. In this context, is marshaling hope and dreaming up beautiful futures—imagining a world that could be—a useful response, or is it escapism? Our hopes...
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History Repeating
“A country gets the leadership it deserves.” That was my sentiment back in 2016 when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for the presidency of the United States. That rather morose and quite cynical...
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The Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. A recent headline in the Atlantic doesn’t mince words: “X is a...
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Women-Led Fish Farming in Colombia Becomes Alternative to Drug Crops
The Amazon rainforest in southern Colombia stretches lush and green across the horizon, but beneath its dense canopy lies a shifting reality. The southern province of Putumayo – a remote region...
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Trump Reneges on Promise That His Tariffs Won’t Raise Costs for Consumers
President-elect Donald Trump took a massive step back from previous claims he’s made on his planned tariffs, stating in an interview over the weekend that he could no longer “guarantee” that costs from...
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CDRCs: A Proposal Concerning Work, Resilience, and the Repopulation of the...
Work sharing, the repopulation of the countryside, and the urgent recovery of resilience in the face of pending ecosocial collapse are objectives that can be pursued simultaneously and synergistically....
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Israel and the United States: Who Rules the Roost?
“We had several other people in the country [USA}, even among the Jews, the Zionists particularly, who were against anything that has to be done if they couldn’t have the whole of Palestine and...
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Courage to Dissent on Palestine: Review of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Within establishment media and politics in the United States, there have been two dominant viewpoints of Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip. One of the viewpoints is highly supportive of Israel...
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From South Africa to Syria, Rising Perils for Palestine Solidarity
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated or condemned, as explored below, but they come at a...
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The Day the Media Decided Militant Jihadism Was Respectable
Here is a very strange thing. For years, western media outlets and politicians have been recklessly indifferent to the fact that Hamas is not a jihadist movement, like al-Qaeda or Islamic State, but a...
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Africa Says France Must Go
A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government...
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The Fall of Assad & What It Means for the Middle East
The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ending a 55-year dynasty begun by his father, dramatically shifts the pieces on the chessboard of the Middle East. The rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham...
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