US Media’s Sorry History of Abetting Immigration Panics
Donald Trump’s second presidential term has been underway for almost two months now, and every day brings headlines testifying to his determination to fulfil his promise of mass deportation of...
View ArticleNew Route for Old Exploitation in the DRC
Few relationships are as fraught with complexity and moral ambiguity as those between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Recently, former US President Joe Biden visited...
View ArticleCuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions
On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas...
View ArticleTrump’s Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism...
Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat responds to the arrest of Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and situates it in the long, bipartisan history of anti-Palestine...
View ArticlePracticing Civility in the Face of Fascism Is Like Signing One’s Own Death...
The United States is a country with a long history of violence and oppression against poor people, women and minorities. And by extension, with authoritarianism. The fact that the Trump presidency...
View ArticleIsraeli Cabinet Minister: ‘Only Solution for the Gaza Strip Is to Empty It of...
Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman argued Tuesday for ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population so that the Jewish people can “inherit the land” many of them...
View ArticleMexico City’s Trolleybus Workers Took on Austerity and Won
The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13. Their union, the Tram Workers Alliance of Mexico (Alianza de Tranviarios de...
View ArticleBow and Scrape or Stand and Fight?
At times like these—who am I kidding, when were there times like these?—one wants to stay in bed, bury one’s head, dream another dream. Or perhaps to privately twist and shout. Or what? I am not going...
View ArticleWorld Bank’s Austerity Push Deepens South Africa’s Unemployment Crisis
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana will not be able to address joblessness among the youth and women because of National Treasury’s austerity, says an expert. A recent World Bank report shows that in...
View ArticleEvidence That The US-UK Scuppered Productive Peace Talks In Spring 2022 To...
I thought it would be useful to set down some of the evidence for the argument that peace negotiations to end the Russian-Ukraine war in spring 2022 were close to being agreed, and that the UK-US tried...
View ArticleParticipatory Budgeting Includes Community Members in the Public Funding Process
In 1989, one-third of the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil, lived in impoverished regions on the fringes of the city, cut off from sanitation, clean water, medical facilities, and other essential...
View ArticleIsrael Inflicts Revenge on Palestinians for Its Own Intelligence Failure
On 27 January 2025, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians left their temporary shelters in southern Gaza and marched en masse to the north. They crossed various towns along the way, one long line of...
View ArticleHow I Organized a Tesla Takedown in Troy, Michigan
It was a lot easier than I thought. The website teslatakedown.com has a link at the top to ActionNetwork to create your own event at a Tesla dealership or showroom. Once there, I clicked the button...
View ArticleMahmoud Khalil’s Illegal Kidnapping is the Tip of a Fascist Spear
A Palestinian human rights advocate, Mahmoud Khalil, has been kidnapped from his Columbia University residence and illegally detained by ICE/DHS agents, first in New Jersey, and now in a private prison...
View ArticleSenate Democrats Must Vote Against The Republican’s Continuing Budget Resolution
Yesterday, the House passed legislation to fund the government through Sept. 30 and thereby avert a shutdown at the end of this week. The measure now goes to the Senate, where Democrats must decide...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Protest Trump’s Arrest of Palestinian Student Activist
As chants of ‘No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist USA!’ echoed through downtown Manhattan on 10 March 2025, I spoke to a person named Richard who had been marching just ahead of me. He declined to give his last...
View Article‘Project 2025 in Action’: Trump Administration Fires Half of Education...
The Trump administration on Tuesday took a major step toward dismantling the U.S. Department of Education by firing roughly half of the agency’s workforce, a decision that teachers’ unions and other...
View ArticleToday We Are All Mahmoud Khalil
Pop open those bottles of chilled champagne. The United States of America is now in the same exclusive company as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia. Our flagging democracy...
View ArticleThe Moral Balance
There is a logical fallacy that dominates European neoliberal “thinking” at the moment. It goes like this. “Hitler had unlimited territorial ambition and proceeded to attempt conquest of all Europe...
View ArticleBritain Wants Ukraine’s Minerals Too
When UK officials signed a 100 year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraine’s “preferred partner” in developing the country’s “critical minerals strategy”. Yet within a...
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