The Gauntlet. Where is Thrutopia?
COP27 at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 2022. Sean Kidney steps onto’ stage and prepares to deliver his opening remarks. He is the CEO and co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative, a climate finance NGO...
View ArticleIsrael Sends Tanks to West Bank for First Time in Decades, Intensifying Assault
Israel has deployed tanks to the occupied West Bank, further intensifying the assault that has forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians as Israeli officials are vowing a “prolonged”...
View ArticleHow Unconventional Climate Advocates Can Reach New Audiences
When you think about climate advocates, you’ll likely picture left-leaning environmentalists who live in cities. This group has contributed to building public support for climate action worldwide,...
View ArticleOn National Day of Action: Federal Union Rank-and-Filers Protest Musk &...
In Washington, D.C., there’s now a ritual formula for labor gatherings outside a government office to protest the latest depredations of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) created by...
View ArticleSurviving Hard Times — Examining the Culture of Racism in America
Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his...
View Article“No Public Oversight”: Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail...
The U.S. military transported 17 new immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay military base on Sunday, just before efforts to jail an anticipated 30,000 immigrants in tent camps at the base were...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s Struggle to Increase Public Investment Highlights Restriction of...
On 17 February 2025, Sri Lanka’s Anura Kumara Dissanayake delivered his maiden budget speech. Dissanayake, who is both president and finance minister, stated that the budget was based on principles of...
View ArticleThe IMF and World Bank Await Elon Musk
I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their shutting down USAID, but I think it’s rather small fry. There are much,...
View ArticleUSPS Privatization Would Cost Rural America More Than Mail
Lorna Atwater, a rural mail carrier from Berea, Kentucky, was driving her seventy-five-mile route through the Eastern Kentucky foothills when she noticed the woods behind a customer’s house were on...
View ArticleImmigration Myths Feed Divisions Among Workers
Myth: Immigrants take American jobs. With all the talk about a flood of new immigrants, unemployment is still close to a record low. This indicates that immigrants are not taking jobs from native-born...
View ArticleLos Angeles Is Leading the Way in Resisting Trump’s Mass Deportations
On Jan. 20, during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, more than 2,000 people and 20-plus grassroots organizations gathered in Los Angeles to protest the administration’s immigration policies and...
View ArticleShould Biden, Blinken, Austin and Trump Be Tried at The Hague for Gaza Genocide?
The civil society human rights NGO DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) has submitted a detailed filing to the International Criminal Court in the Hague urging that Joe Biden, Tony Blinken and Lloyd...
View ArticleRomanians Told to Vote Better
Of the many elections dotted through last year’s calendar, there was little to suggest that the Romanian presidential vote would be all that remarkable. Since the end of communism in 1989, the Social...
View ArticleHow Germany’s Extreme Center Fueled AfD’s Success
According to the preliminary results of the Bundestag, or parliamentary, elections, the extreme right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the second-strongest force in Germany. It now...
View ArticleThe Real Trump-Zelensky $500 Billion Minerals Deal
After weeks of on again off again, US mainstream media headlines today, February 26, 2025 announce that Trump and Ukraine’s president Zelensky—after weeks of ‘tit for tat’ mutual accusations–have...
View ArticleKeir Starmer’s Plan For UK Growth – The Ukraine War
Wars can be useful to governments, and the horrendous conflict in Ukraine is so proving. In his announcement of increases in UK military spending, Keir Starmer strongly referenced Ukraine and the...
View ArticleStruggles for Bread, Peace and Social Justice in a Multi-Polar World: Ten...
The setting Since the electoral changes in the United States in November 2024 and the inauguration of the Republican President on January 20, 2025, many have been seeking to understand the meaning of...
View ArticleTargeted Postal Workers Are a Bellwether for All U.S. Unions
The Trump administration has set its sights on the U.S. Postal Service and its 600,000 workers, 91 percent of whom are union members. The USPS is the nation’s largest unionized employer. Postal workers...
View ArticleTrump Administration Seizes Control Over White House Press Pool in Chilling Move
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is seizing full control over which journalists have access to the press pool covering the president, taking the power from the organization that...
View ArticleDoes Israel Have A Future? With Ilan Pappé
The Israeli Jewish public consistently supported the genocide in Gaza by large margins, according to opinion polls. But in recent months things started to shift. An overwhelming majority now say they...
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