Aid, Dependence, and Ideological Warfare
Donald Trump sent shockwaves across the world in his first week as president. Of all the domestic and international executive orders he signed, arguably the most consequential was the executive order...
View ArticleStrategy and Tactics for the Burgeoning Resistance
The wide mix of acts of resistance over the past week have made it clear that there is and will be widespread resistance to the Trump/MAGA regressive, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and...
View ArticleTrump Plan for Gaza “Worse Than Ethnic Cleansing,” Says UN Human Rights Expert
Donald Trump’s outrageous plan to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza, assume U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and make it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” reveals his intent to commit a war...
View ArticleFederal Workers Can Defeat Elon Musk’s Coup. Here’s How.
Who can stop Elon Musk? Even though it’s illegal for him to seize control of federal agency finances to slash the workforce, a Republican Congress is unlikely to assert its legally mandated...
View ArticleFirst Skirmish: Ten Thousand Grocery Workers Strike Kroger
Ten thousand members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 are on strike all across Colorado. They work for King Soopers grocery stores, owned by Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in...
View ArticleThe Wrong Way To End Aid
Why am I disgusted by the Trump administration’s pause on USAID projects and funds? Humanitarian aid has always been part of a neocolonial project, and I have spent decades critiquing the work it does...
View ArticleGarment Workers Are Uniting Like Never Before to Take On Nike
Absent in the raging debate over trade policy, tariffs, and foreign aid is a truth about the economy that those of us in the Global South know all too well: American corporations and their billionaire...
View ArticleAltadena Communities Unite to Rebuild as Developers Eye the Ashes
Bernardo Osprio, a 60-year-old day laborer from Pasadena, couldn’t believe his eyes as he surveyed the devastation caused by the recent wildfires in Altadena, California. Having lived in southern...
View ArticleFrom Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
For the last year, the two of us have been lucky to talk strategy with more than 130 other rural organizers and volunteer leaders. In the process, we built the beginnings of the Rural Defenders Union,...
View ArticleNixon’s Letter to Elon Musk
Since his death in 1994, Richard Nixon has refrained from public comments. Today, however, he has broken his silence in a letter from Hell. Mr. Nixon offered TBR the exclusive right to publish his...
View ArticleTrump’s Antic Disposition May Lead the Globe to Ruin
As the world hurtles each day faster and faster into the terminal womb of Chaos, the gods seem to have elected Donald Trump to be the enfant terrible whose narcissistic suave charm may see the project...
View ArticleIsrael Shuts Down Two Palestinian Bookstores in Occupied East Jerusalem
The leading Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem was among those voicing outrage Monday in response to an Israeli police raid on a pair of renowned Palestinian-owned bookstores in illegally...
View ArticleTrump, Ethnic Cleansing & Israel “Moving the War” from Gaza to the West Bank
Israel “has moved the war from Gaza to the West Bank,” says the Palestinian National Initiative’s Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, who joins us from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military’s...
View ArticleTrump’s Exemplary Gaza Plan
Donald Trump has presented the world with a spectacular plan to help/save the people of Gaza. He will take control of the strip and move all the residents of the demolished, unlivable territory to nice...
View ArticleWe Need a United Front Against the Alliance Between AfriForum and Trump
Our movement condemns the reckless and racist actions of AfriForum in inciting the white right in the United States to act against South Africa. These actions have now resulted in a potentially highly...
View ArticleFrom Gaza to the West Bank: Israel’s Unyielding War Machine
“A year of combat”—this is how Israel’s new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, described 2025 at a conference organized by the Israeli ministry of defense. The exact sentence, translated from Hebrew, was:...
View ArticleAmid Harsh Deportation From the U.S, Ecuador Held Sharply Polarized Elections
As U.S. military cargo planes have begun landing in Ecuador transporting deported Ecuadorians under the Trump regime, with their wrists and ankles bound, Ecuador held General Elections on February 9,...
View ArticleThe End Game: Normalization
Despite the fallout, there was little that was actually new or shocking about Trump and Netanyahu’s press conference last week. What shocked informed people on all sides of the Palestine issue was...
View ArticleIn Stunningly Bright Colors — Make Art, Not War
The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis,...
View ArticleTrump’s Imperial Delusions Endanger Panama
The United States is threatening to take over the Panama Canal at a time when Panama is struggling to address growing challenges from climate change, the greatest long-term threat to the canal’s...
View Article