Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe...
Thousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in U.S. history, pressuring the company at the height of the holiday period to follow the law and bargain...
View ArticleSenate passes Social Security Fairness Act
The US Senate passed a bipartisan bill early Saturday to increase Social Security benefits for close to 3 million federal, state and local public sector workers, which includes firemen, policemen and...
View ArticleIs Public, Quality Healthcare Possible In The United States?
People in the US pay billions towards the health insurance industry, yet many in the healthcare field believe that this industry does little to ensure quality care to patients. While US healthcare...
View ArticleDismantling The ‘Climate Alarm Industry’ Per Project 2025
The definition of alarm: “A warning of danger” (Merriam-Webster) according to The State of the Climate Report 2024, 25 of 35 vital signs are at record extremes. By all accounts, this is an over-the-top...
View ArticleIrony is Dead: Netanyahu cannot Attend Auschwitz Ceremony for Fear of Arrest...
The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland for the 80th annual commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death...
View ArticleIsrael’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza
(Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths and thus...
View Article‘No Contract, No Coffee’: Starbucks Workers Launch Five Days of Strikes
Starbucks workers launched five days of escalating strikes across the United States on Friday, accusing the coffee giant of reneging on its commitment to engage in productive bargaining talks with the...
View ArticleGrowing Student Protests in Serbia Reveal Deep Tensions
The current wave of student protests across Serbia originated with a tragic incident on November 1, 2024, when a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in Novi Sad, resulting in 15 fatalities....
View ArticleNew Left-Wing Wind On The Shores Of Lake Geneva?
The Swiss parliaments did not wait for a dissolution before dividing into three blocs at both the cantonal and federal levels. And, although the right and the far right joined forces to form a...
View ArticleHow an Unlikely Coalition of Climate Activists and a Gas Utility Are Weaning...
Three climate activists and three gas utility executives walk into a room. It may sound like the start of a joke. However, the meeting at an Eversource Energy boardroom outside Boston in December 2016...
View ArticleWhat’s The Best Gift For Relationships This Holiday Season? Understanding...
We were in one of those finish-everything-before-the-holidays meetings, pussyfooting about an accusation someone had made. Suddenly a colleague confessed, “My hands are clenched. My shoulders are...
View ArticleTrump’s Second Big Defeat
Almost exactly a month ago President-Elect Trump suffered his first major political defeat when Ultra-MAGA Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his name after Trump nominated him to be US Attorney-General....
View ArticleThen and Now
I was recently invited to give a talk at MIT on campus organizing and battling against Trumpism. This was because in 1965, I entered MIT as a Freshman and was thrown out three and a half years later....
View ArticleIsraelis Invade Syria: Who Will Stop Israel?
The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked and destroyed most of the Syrian Navy in...
View ArticleHow Progressive Civil Society Became Professional NGO Culture
The Democratic Party has failed to earn the support of what was once its working-class base. This ought to be a moment of reckoning for the party. The anger it faces is justified and necessary to...
View ArticleDonald Trump and Education for Acquiescence
In a Donald Trump administration replete with billionaire donors, hucksters, hardline right-wing contributors to the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, warriors against the woke “Deep State,” and...
View ArticleCan Palestinians And Israelis Coexist In A Single Democratic State?
Seventy-six years of occupation, ethnic cleansing and settler-colonisation leading up to today’s genocide in Gaza cannot disappear overnight. In light of this, does the historical Palestinian and...
View ArticleAs Gaza War Rages, Deutsche Welle Insiders Accuse Outlet Of Pro-Israel Bias
Senior newsroom figures at Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle are cultivating a culture of fear among journalists who are tasked with reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, 13 staff members...
View Article‘Cop City’ Leads US Buildup in Police-Training Bases
After years of intense opposition that left one protester riddled by police bullets, Atlanta’s so-called Cop City is set to begin operations in the next few weeks. The city’s police chief hosted a tour...
View ArticleThe Fight for Transgender Rights Is a Class Struggle Fight for Equality
President-elect Donald Trump said at a conference for young conservatives in Arizona this past Sunday that the official policy of his upcoming administration would be the recognition that there are...
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