Campus Protests Are Fighting Militarism and Corporatization at Home and Abroad
Student protesters know the fight for Palestinian freedom requires resisting militarization and fascism at home. The long-simmering crisis over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians has reached a breaking...
View ArticleTrump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I’ll Help You Wreck the Planet
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a straightforward offer to some of the top fossil fuel executives in the United States during a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club last month,...
View ArticleWar Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young
Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people — least inclined to deference, most inclined to moral outrage —...
View ArticleCivilizational Unity, Not Clash: How Gaza Challenged Samuel Huntington’s...
Identity is fluid, because concepts such as culture, history and collective self-perceptions are never fixed. They are in a constant state of flux and revision. For hundreds of years, the map of the...
View ArticleWork Longer, Die Sooner! America’s Dire Need to Expand Social Security and...
Experts are clear that working into old age often threatens the health and well-being of U.S. seniors. Shameful fact: the plight of U.S. retirees is a global exception. In their pursuit of lower taxes,...
View ArticleLeft or Not Left?
Consider everybody in society. Some eat meat, others don’t. Some live in Spain, others in Japan. Some are rural, others urban. Countless differences separate people into “we and they groups” for one...
View ArticleReport: Olympia, Oregon, March in Solidarity with Palestine
On May 4th 2024, people demanding a Free Palestine and an end of U.S. aid to Israel marched through downtown Olympia, Washington. Just after 2pm on a cold and rainy Saturday, around 350 people gathered...
View ArticleIndian Women Have Gone Backward Under Narendra Modi’s Rule
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which currently heads the ruling coalition government in India, has long had a reputation as a male-dominated, Hindu supremacist organization with an upper caste and...
View ArticlePlastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference
When I registered to attend last month’s United Nations conference in Canada, organizers insisted it would be a “plastic free meeting.” I wouldn’t even get a see-through sleeve for my name tag, they...
View ArticleAn Anti-Liberal Supreme Court Poised to Subvert Justice
One could understand the Dobb’s decision. The Supreme Court was wrong to ignore precedence, reason, and evidence when it took away a woman’s constitutional right to choose. But when one recognized that...
View ArticleBlood Gun Money – How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
Thousands of guns used by Mexican cartels, as well as other gangs throughout Latin America, have been traced back to U.S. gun manufacturers. Journalist Ioan Grillo describes how the flow of guns to...
View ArticleFrances Fox Piven Remembers Columbia, 1968
As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month of unrelenting destruction, students around the world are setting up encampments and occupying buildings to press their institutions to cut financial and...
View Article‘Children Are Starving’: Rafah Suffers as Israel Halts All Aid and Escalates...
United Nations experts on Friday used U.S. President Joe Biden’s own language regarding Israel’s offensive in Rafah, Gaza to demand that the president follow through with his statement that an Israeli...
View Article‘Argentina Stopped’: Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a far-right economist, took office in December and began...
View ArticleWill Palestinian Groups Create a New Palestinian Political Project?
In Cairo, representatives from Hamas held indirect negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire. The sticking point for several of the rounds was the order of events. Israel wanted the hostages to be...
View ArticleHow the UAW Could Change the South
The UAW is on a roll. After winning stupendous contracts at the Big Three automakers this past year, the union then organized Volkswagen in Tennessee April 20. What’s eye-popping about this is that the...
View ArticlePalestine and History: Macklemore v. Hillary Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered herself of some ahistorical and distorted remarks about Palestine on Morning Joe, maintaining that the young people protesting the Gaza atrocities do...
View ArticleAgainst Global Indifference to Atrocities in Darfur
As the deadly war in Sudan enters its second year, it is nearly impossible to overstate the global indifference and inaction in the face of ongoing devastating mass atrocities in Sudan. The...
View ArticleUN Report: Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year
Extreme climate shocks, intensified by global warming, killed hundreds of people and devastated livelihoods and ecosystems across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, scientists with the World...
View ArticleGreat Expectations – Germany’s Petite Bourgeoisie
For the past few years, Germany’s petty bourgeoisie or middle class has been losing confidence in society, politics, and capitalism. They are increasingly at odds with the democratic parties they have...
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