Six Scenarios for Syria
It is naive to assume that the current regime in Syria will remain in place — as it is — going forward. Syria is now in a state of uneasy transition and the political-military situation will remain in...
View ArticleSyrian Minorities Under Threat as Security Forces Carry out Raids Against...
The new Syrian government led by former Al-Qaeda leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani is carrying out raids and arrests against members of Bashar al-Assad’s fallen government amid reports of...
View Article20 Years After His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Twenty years ago this month, on December 10, 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stretch of depression. The subject of the 2014...
View ArticleHow To End Capitalism
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I examine how we actually end capitalism through movement building and organizing. Specifically, I look at the case studies of Ende Gälende and...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky – The Crimes of U.S. Presidents
Chomsky goes through some of the crimes of the post-war presidents. From 2003.
View ArticleIsraeli Citizenship Has Always Been a Tool of Genocide — So I’m Renouncing Mine
Irecently 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...
View ArticleEnvisioning a Revolutionary Feminism
In recent years there have been all too many prominent cases demonstrating the prevalence of extreme misogyny in American society. For example, you have the collection of blogs, web sites and online...
View ArticleSale Ends Today Part I
[This is part I of a II part article about free market economics. Part II will be published tomorrow.] Talk to the Fish I don’t have a call to arms, but I’m not ruling out hurling a few rocks – rocks...
View ArticleClimate Overheating Is the Greatest Capitalist Crime Ever Perpetrated
If climate overheating is the biggest threat to life on earth, one might expect that progressive platforms would be all over this issue. Of all the great crimes of capitalism – war, imperial conquest,...
View ArticleLearning From the First Generation of Transformative Practice
The Wobblies used to say don’t mourn, organize, but you can do both at once and you don’t have to organize right away in this moment of furious mourning. You can be heartbroken or furious or both at...
View ArticleThe Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation
Is the Trump coalition coming apart before the Trump administration even begins? That seemed possible amid last week’s cage match between Elon Musk and Laura Loomer. This conflict previewed divisions...
View ArticleBBC Staffers Reveal Editor’s ‘Entire Job’ to Whitewash Israeli War Crimes
BBC editor Raffi Berg has almost complete control of the British broadcaster’s online coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and is ensuring that all events are reported with a pro-Israel bias, according to...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution Number One: Join the Movement Against World War
There’s a precipice and we are standing on its edge. The world as it exists on the eve of 2025 is a world of war and genocide. It is a world where millions of humans exist in a state not just of...
View ArticleTotal Moral, Ethical Failure”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel’s...
Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians and injured more than 108,000. At the same time, Gaza officials continue to accuse Israel of deliberately...
View ArticleNiger Uprising One Year Later: Coup or ‘Pan-African Revolution’ in Progress?
Before the 2023 popular anticolonial uprising that removed Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum from power, “extreme poverty had reached 42% of the Nigerian population” explains Alex Anfruns Millán, over a...
View ArticleIn 2025, Let’s Make It Game On – Not Game Over – for Our Precious Natural World
It’s just past midnight in the cool, ancient forests of Tasmania. We’ve spent a long day and night surveying endangered Tasmanian devils. All around, small animals scurry through bushes. A devil calls...
View ArticleJimmy Carter Told Trump How to Put America First, But Will He Do It?
With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a phone conversation that Carter had with Trump during his first term. Carter’s...
View ArticleReclaim the Initiative With The Peoples’ Platform Europe
The Peoples’ Platform Europe will take place in Vienna from February 14-16, 2025. Under the motto “Reclaim the Initiative”, it aims to bring activists from across Europe into strategic exchange to...
View ArticleDefending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action — Part 1:...
Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Part 1 of this series contains the following...
View ArticleA Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in...
Is that a spy in your pocket? In a holiday special we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and filmmaker Matthew O’Neill about Surveilled, their new HBO documentary looking at how...
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