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Bringing Gaza Home
In Ft. Wayne, Indiana this September, I was arrested with a long time activist friend, Cliff Kindy, for blocking the entrance to a Raytheon Corp. facility. We both requested jury trials and the dates...
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The Bank Israel Bombed
Israel has relentlessly bombed all 38 branches of the Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association in Lebanon. Why is it so important to the Zionist cause to specifically obliterate a savings and loan institution? I...
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Another Expert Report Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide. The West Yawns
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages. Three separate reports published this...
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The Facts About A Planet Facing Climate Disaster Are Clear. Why Won’t This...
There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That is where we are heading, unless we act now. On our current path, the world...
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Striking Amazon Workers Aim to Crack an Anti-Union Behemoth
The Amazon workers who walked off the job at warehouses across the country at peak season are trying to establish a union beachhead against one of the most important — and most anti-union — employers...
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Students Need To Be Able To Read The Word And The World
Rather than trap students in pedagogies of memorization, teaching for tests, or mindless conformity, it is crucial to connect literacy to empowering forms of civic education, a critical embrace of...
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Making America Healthy Again
Yes. In the wealthiest country on Earth let us Make America Healthy Again. We should be leading the world in terms of life-expectancy, happiness, and productivity. This is some of what we have to do....
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Now It Can Be Told . . . After All the Harm Has Been Done
This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless bands of militias that pillaged homes and laid waste to...
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Senator Chris Coons and the Cult of Patent Monopolies
Last week, Delaware Senator Chris Coons, the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, made an assertion about the nature of patents that is flat out wrong. Senator Coons said: “OUR...
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We Can’t Talk to People That Way
In an NPR interview, Republican strategist and co-founder of The Bulwark Sarah Longwell shared an anecdote: “When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the...
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It’s Not About What Class Your From: It’s About What Class System You Serve
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens recently published a widely read opinion piece claiming that Brian Thompson, the United Health Group insurance CEO that Luigi Mangione assassinated, is the “real...
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Is “Feminist Foreign Policy” A Ruse?
At the end of October, several members of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), a German-based organization ‘dedicated to feminist human rights’ and advancing Feminist...
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A Christmas Visit
No, it was not Santa Claus or Papa Noel as some of my adopted Argentine family refer to this mythic figure. The visit was unexpected, however, and while it’s very fresh in my mind, I want to share it...
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Russian Anti-War Political Prisoners Must Be Included in Any Eventual...
Dear friends, The accession of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States raises the possibility of the incoming US administration following through on Trump’s pledge to negotiate some kind of...
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Israeli Citizenship Has Always Been a Tool of Genocide — So I Renounced Mine
I recently entered an Israeli consulate and submitted papers to formally renounce my citizenship. It was an unseasonably warm fall day and office workers on break were lounging by the pond in Boston...
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Fascism and Us or Radical Left Lunacy?
Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the American and the world stage such as we have never seen before. Day one,...
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Civil Discourse in a Time of Genocide
Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in...
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A Palestinian Year in Review: Genocide, Resistance and Unanswered Questions
The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip. When Israel launched its ground...
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Ukraine, a Late-Capitalist War Effort
Walk around Kyiv’s city center during a blackout evening in the holiday season, and sooner or later, you’ll come across Tsum — a multistory high-end department store, complete with its doorman in a...
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‘A Policy Choice’: US Report Finds Homelessness Soared 18% This Year
The controversial federal system for tracking homelessness in the United States recorded an 18% increase from 2023, breaking the record previously set last year, according to a report released Friday....
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