The Monkey’s Tail: How Netanyahu’s Ambitions Expose Israel’s Vulnerabilities
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail,” warns a timeless Chinese proverb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, seems to neither heed the lessons of history nor the...
View Article‘A Dagger To The Heart’: BBC Credibility Nosedives Even Further
The BBC’s withdrawal of the powerful documentary, ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, epitomises how much the UK’s national broadcaster is beholden to the Israel lobby. The corporation’s longstanding...
View ArticleCould Low-Wage Whites Spark Trump’s Undoing?
Lost amidst the firehose of lies uttered by Donald Trump at his address before Congress March 4, was a New Mexico Democratic congresswoman’s succinct description of the crisis facing the United States:...
View ArticleThe Succession Battle for Control of a Prison-Industry Empire
The yacht is moored at the mouth of the Miami River, in the long shadows of the city’s luxury hotels and high-rises. It is of Italian design: sleek, imposing, with a flybridge and sundeck and five...
View ArticleCuba’s Sugar Workers Played a Key Role in Its Revolution
In the first half of the twentieth century, Cuba was the biggest producer of sugar in the world, and sugar represented 80 percent of the country’s exports. This dependence on a single crop left the...
View ArticleReviewing The Dialectics of Ecology
Can you feel it? There is a palpable dread that the ruling class, which owns financial and industrial capital, will continue to invest in destroying the Earth System. One example is the half-dozen...
View ArticleBulgaria’s Missing Euro Debate
While the world’s eyes are set on the dismantling of the Euro-Atlantic alliance, Bulgaria seems set to finalize its accession to the eurozone amid an atmosphere of peak anti-politics. The government...
View ArticleTrump’s Latin America Policy: Inconsistencies and Vacillations
During his first term, President Donald Trump exerted a “maximum pressure” campaign against perceived U.S. adversaries in Latin America and elsewhere. Among other hardline policies, he levelled...
View ArticleWhy Unions Belong in Climbing Gyms
Fresh off the announcement of our union campaign at the VITAL Climbing Gym in Brooklyn, NY, my coworkers and I learned we would have the chance to meet climbing legend Alex Honnold during a public...
View ArticleTrump Tariffs and the Dollar as the World Reserve Currency
With Trump threatening to impose big taxes (tariffs) on imports from all our major trading partners, many people are desperate to find some grand scheme that would justify this seeming absurdity. Just...
View ArticleHow Pro-Palestine Student Activists Are Fighting Increasing Repression
The student movement for Palestine is once again in the news following reports that ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine organizing at Columbia University. The Trump administration...
View ArticleResistance to Trump Is Everywhere — Inside the First 50 Days of Mass Protest
It’s been a long six weeks since Donald Trump was sworn into office amid a Nazi salute and a machine-gun barrage of 89 executive orders. We’ve been struggling for our lives, our country and our world...
View ArticleTrump’s Ethnic Cleansing Gaza Plan, Elon Musk, Apartheid South Africa and...
The title of an astonishing article from one of the oldest and most influential Jewish publications in the U.S., The Forward, reads: The Nazi plan for Jews that anticipated Trump’s Gaza proposal. The...
View ArticleMacedonia’s Foreign Policy Between Two Suns
At the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski was the only European to applaud the speech by US Vice President JD Vance. From Munich, Mickoski went to...
View ArticleDuterte’s ICC Arrest for Crime Against Humanity Strikes a Blow Against Impunity
Activists in the Philippines say the stunning arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a crime against humanity marks a major step...
View ArticleWe Will Not Comply
Freefalling through our authoritarian takeover, this week saw New York police in the grotesque faux-gold belly of the beast arrest 100 Jews of conscience chanting “Free Free Palestine” to protest the...
View ArticleAmazon Rainforest Cleared for Climate Conference
This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by,...
View ArticleAs U.N. Accuses Israel of Genocidal Acts, U.S. Surgeons in Gaza Denounce Aid...
A new report by United Nations experts says Israel has carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians in Gaza, including the destruction of women’s healthcare facilities, intended to prevent births,...
View ArticleTrump’s Pro-Israel McCarthyism Is Already Boomeranging
The trouble with McCarthyism is that once it gets going, it has a habit of ensnaring figures who were not meant to be its original targets. We’re seeing this with the Donald Trump administration’s and...
View ArticleFeminists On The Move In Bogotá
This year’s International Women’s Day march in Bogotá began in a distinct spot, at the intersection where Calle 45 crosses one of the city’s most important avenues. Feminists gathered there beside a...
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