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Getting Old, Staying Young
I recently turned 77. That is old. I got many congratulatory messages. I found them a bit sad but not because I am undeniably well onto the downslope. Years go by, the slope changes. That’s the way...
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Biden and Blinken – No Weapons To Israel As It Violates US And International Law
As Israel continues its merciless assault on Gaza, there is at least some sanity taking hold in regard to U.S. policy on military assistance to Israel. Several weapons shipments have been put on hold...
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The Genie That Will Never Go Back in the Bottle
It is Day 19 today of the Great 2024 Nonviolent Student Uprising against the U.S.-backed slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians (over 70% of the dead are children, women and the elderly). Nearly...
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TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech
As US lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a US buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a...
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The Chagos Islands, The Story of a Crime Against Humanity
Between 1966 and 1973, the entire population of this Indian Ocean archipelago was arbitrarily deported from their homeland to allow the installation of a U.S. military base. For over half a century,...
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The Nation’s Conscience
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. NEW YORK CITY: I am...
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7 October in Historical Perspective
Seven months after Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood attack across the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023, the provisional balance-sheet is daunting. A PROVISIONAL BALANCE-SHEET According to the...
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What’s Really Going on with the Teamsters and with TDU?
As Shawn Fain has acknowledged, Teamsters for a Democratic Union helped to inspire and provide a model for the Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) caucus and for the United Auto Workers membership...
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The Lord’s Army Isn’t Stupid: It Pushes for Mass Expulsion of Palestinians
“On Friday, April 26, at 13:00, a group of settlers invaded the southern part of Madama village [south of Nablus] and departed shortly afterward,” the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Negotiations...
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Trinity College Dublin Agrees To Divest From Israeli Firms After Student Protest
Students at Trinity College Dublin have ended a five-day encampment after the university pledged to cut ties with Israeli companies. Student leaders claimed victory on Wednesday night for a US-style...
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Climate, Energy and Natural Resources
Speech by Jason Hickel, Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, at the 50th Anniversary Congress in Havana. Thank you to PI for organizing this event, and thank you to our Cuban hosts,...
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Organizing for Power: The Fight of Our Lives
In this interview, labor organizer, teacher and strategist Jane McAlevey turns the attention back to what YOU and all of us need to do NOW to win more and win better. Because the planet is on fire and,...
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Macklemore Dares Others to Stand Up for Palestine
The foremost authority on the revolutionary rock/rap band Rage Against the Machine, their own guitarist Tom Morello, tweeted this. Rage Against the Machine filled stadiums in the 1990s with its brand...
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Trump Loyalists Preview Strategies to Upend 2024 Election
Not just challenging voters’ credentials in battleground states. But attacking every step in running elections. As the 2020 presidential election entered its final stretch, Christina Bobb was not just...
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Amazon Is Holding Special Union-Busting Seminars for Workers
Workers are being told: ‘A union is a business, just like Amazon.’ Amazon union busters are threatening workers with the loss of their jobs if they unionise. At the vast warehouse in Coventry, known as...
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Breaking Up With Capitalism
It’s harder to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote Mark Fisher in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism. This sense pervades our culture like a dense fog, helping to create the...
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Under the Pretext of “Antisemitism”, the Suppression of the Palestinian...
The intensity of reactions from pro-Israel circles against that movement is only a confirmation of the importance of this development, which it would not be exaggerated to describe as historic. The...
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The End Of The World
A sobering article published in The Guardian yesterday has gotten me thinking, not for the first time, about why, despite difficult odds and repeated disappointments, I and many others keep plugging...
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For Displaced Gazans, Leaving Rafah Is Moving From One Hell to Another
According to Palestinian reports, 22 Palestinians, among them eight children including babies, were killed by Israeli bombs and shells in eastern Rafah overnight into Monday. On its website, the Wafa...
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Build a Majority for Palestine
Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around...
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