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American-Century Flight
I have long nursed a keen interest in the Cold War’s corruptions on the cultural side — who the perpetrators and who the victims and what they did in each case. I was riveted, then, when OR Books...
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Hope is Created Through Action: Climate & Environmental Victories of 2024
Dear changemakers, thank you for all that you’ve done this year. Reflecting on 2024, we endured yet another year filled with climate catastrophes, political unrest and international inequality. But...
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Teachers Turn to Study Groups for Anti-Racist Learning as History Is Whitewashed
It is hard to overstate the burdens public school educators have been asked to carry over the last several years. There are the perennial stressors: inadequate funding, crumbling infrastructure, the...
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MIT Student Banned From Campus, Facing Suspension After Pro-Palestine Activism
Prahlad Iyengar recently came across a video of children in Gaza reacting to the sound of their school bell ringing through a pair of headphones. Iyengar watched as the children burst into tears over...
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Marble Extractivism and “Art-Washing”: Building Alliances in Massa-Carrara,...
The marble extraction basin of the Province of Massa-Carrara in Italy is known for being a symbol of history, art and culture. It is the place from which Michelangelo obtained the raw material for his...
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Sale Ends Today Part II
[This is part II of a II part article about free market economics. Part I was published here.] In part I, I dealt with what lies behind the economic concepts that have become part of our daily...
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Yanis Varoufakis: What to Watch for in 2025 – Trump, the US dollar, and China
Yanis Varoufakis dives into the key global trends and challenges shaping 2025. From the return of Trump to the shifting power of the US dollar and China’s influence, he breaks down what these...
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What Is Salting, the Organizing Tactic Spicing Up the Labor Movement?
The resurgence of the American labor movement is being led in no small part by a cohort of young, diverse, fired-up workers around the country. Union density remains embarrassingly low overall, but...
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The Nobel Peace Prize – Huge Problems and Small Alternatives
Not so prestigious or noble The media often describe the Nobel Peace Prize as the world’s most prestigious prize. That is, however, slightly bizarre for at least two reasons: first, there exists no...
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John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful
John Pilger died a year ago on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his job as a reporter, writes Joe Lauria. During a lifetime of...
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Philippines: People’s Tribune For 2024: Senator Risa Hontiveros
There’s really no one in the Senate that can equal Senator Risa Hontiveros in terms of rendering service to the Filipino people. A socialist feminist in a nest of trapos, she has been truly consistent...
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Exposing Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide
Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report are three courageous individuals who chose to put their careers on the line to fight against Big Tech suppression of voices fighting...
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Trump’s Really Going To Try It
Henry Giroux, Chaired Professor of Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University, joins David to discuss neo-liberal fascism and whether fascism and authoritarian are valid descriptors of...
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Fighting Israel’s War in Jenin: Can the Palestinian Authority Be Saved?
The latest news from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) so-called “Protecting the Homeland” operation in the Jenin refugee camp paints a grim picture. Nine Palestinian lives have been claimed in this...
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Why Congress Members Face a Lawsuit for Funding Israel’s War on Gaza
On the last day of 2024, the deputy general counsel for the House of Representatives formally accepted delivery of a civil summons for two congressmembers from Northern California. More than 600...
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The Teamsters’ Amazon “Strikes”: a Critical Assessment
The Teamsters’ five day long strike against Amazon ended inconclusively, but the union hinted at future actions with “Stay tuned.” Beginning on Thursday, December 19, the Teamsters called strikes in...
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Grief, Mourning, and Solidarity
Tempest’s Eric Maroney interviews labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about her new book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. What follows is a transcript of that interview, lightly edited...
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What We Must Prepare For
Part 2 of this series contains the following chapter: 3. What We Must Prepare For Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability,...
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How Will Mexico’s New President Deal with Trump, Migration, and Drug Cartels?
In June 2024, Mexicans elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Arguably, Mexico is Washington’s most significant foreign policy partner, playing a central...
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Solidarity with Palestine and the Struggle from Below
Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza shows no sign of ending more than a year after its beginning, while the Israeli occupation army and settlers have continued to escalate its...
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