Netanyahu Only Ever Saw The Hostages As His Path Back To Genocide
Israel sustained the West’s support for its slaughter in Gaza for 15 months only through an intensive campaign of lies. It invented particularly heinous Hamas war crimes, such baby beheadings and mass...
View Article‘Only The People Can Save The People,’ Say Migrant Workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights. When the Eaton Fire began on January 7, 2025, in Altadena,...
View ArticleConquered Lands
To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the old Ottoman-dominated Arab world and created new...
View ArticleHow Capitalism Pillages the Planet and Creates Chaos – Patrick Bond
Following decades of ongoing mineral extraction, environmental plunder, and the subsidization of the fossil fuel industry, the second Trump administration’s aggressive pro-drilling agenda...
View ArticleGreen Transition From Above or From Below?
A review of Jeremy Brecher’s Green New Deal From Below When I use the phrase green transition in this review, I’m referring to the shift of human society away from a reliance on the burning of fossil...
View ArticleOrange Peace – Is Donald Trump A Racist, Misogynistic, Ethnic Cleansing,...
In January 1961, in his farewell address, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that, as a result of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War, the United States had ‘been compelled to create a...
View ArticleIndigenous Women and Caregiving in Mexico
On February 19, 2025, Mexican legislators presented Congress with the third component of a bill that would mandate the creation of a National Caregiving System. NGOs such as Oxfam and community and...
View ArticleA Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy of Anti-Immigration
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them. For its victims, the cruelties involved are...
View ArticleRestoring Palestine to Its Rightful Owners: A Conversation with Mads Gilbert
We have long argued that the Israeli war and genocide in Gaza must catalyze a change in the overall political discourse on Israel and Palestine, particularly regarding the need to free Palestine from...
View ArticleResisting the “Everything, Everywhere All at Once” Blitzkrieg
MAGA’s fast-moving coup is upending the longstanding arrangements that have undergirded domestic politics and the US role in the world. What does this mean for the resistance, and how can the US Left...
View ArticleThe Fight for Justice in Kenya’s Narrative
On September 8, 2024, a play titled The Bullet and the Flag was performed at the NG-CDF hall in Githurai 44 in Nairobi. Written by Njoki and directed by Moses Ngwiri, this play highlights political...
View ArticleWhy The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines...
When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in these dark days as my 57th birthday approaches it comes back into my...
View ArticleReviving Native Food Sovereignty
Gently pushing aside the potato plant, her fingers delve lightly into dark soil. She finds a small potato, and smiling, holds it up for us to see. Shaelene Grace Moler grew up in Ḵéex̱’ Ḵwaan, the...
View ArticleYou Can’t Keep Imposing Austerity and Expect the Corporate Party to Last Forever
The failures of the neoliberal brand of capitalism — and capitalism as a system itself — were once again on display in the February 23 German elections. In a political vacuum, with mainstream parties...
View ArticleThe Trump Gaza AI Video Gives Us a Free Vacation in the Twilight Zone
The dialectic that struggles in my brain pits two terrible things against one another – I sometimes think that Trump’s fascist coup has been an example of the chickens coming home to roost. The US –...
View Article10 More Reasons for Modest Optimism
Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further. America appears to be waking up. Here’s the latest evidence — 10 more...
View ArticleMacron Needs to Shut Up More
In early January, the beleaguered president of France, Emmanuel Macron, told French ambassadors at a conference that none of the countries in the Sahel region would be sovereign today “if the French...
View ArticleHow the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy
Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it...
View ArticleA People’s History, Retold in Graphics
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s an AN Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States was first released in 2015 as part of Beacon Press’s Revisioning History series. Other books in the series include the...
View ArticleThe Monsters Aren’t Just In History Books. They Live Among Us. They’re...
Walter Salles’ new film I’m Still Here, is a moving, true-story, Oscar-nominated portrait of a middle-class, leftwing family in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s struggling to come to terms with the...
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