Critics of VA Cuts Say: “This is Life and Death Stuff”
Earlier this month, Vietnam War veteran Paul Cox went to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center in St. Louis to visit a sick friend. When he left the hospital, he encountered a woman...
View ArticleResistance Is Alive and Well In the United States
“Where is the resistance?” is a common refrain. Our research affirms that resistance is alive and well. Many underestimate resistance to the current Republican administration because they view...
View ArticleShifting Allegiances: The Role Of Palestine in US Domestic and Foreign Policy
It is crucial for any American administration to recognize that, regardless of political agendas, the views of the American public regarding the situation in Palestine and Israel are undergoing a...
View ArticleTrump’s Got to Go: On Understanding, Predicting, and Changing History
Understanding and Changing “Philosophers,” the young Karl Marx wrote, “have tried to understand history; the point is to change it.” I’ve long thought that famous quotation advances something of a...
View ArticleFarmers Of La Via Campesina: We Globalise Struggles and Hope!
What is it like to farm in the EU? What are the forces at stake behind liberal farming policies? Where do the narratives of right and left farmers’ unions intersect and diverge? What is the current...
View ArticleWe Need a New Progressive Program, and We Need It Now!
Progressives, put aside your justifiable detestation of Donald Trump and his Musky minions for one second, and answer this question: Q: What’s the most important difference between MAGA Republicans and...
View ArticlePeople Self-Organise: Assemblies Everywhere Across Serbia
Before the protest in Belgrade, students in blockades unequivocally called on the citizens of Serbia to do the same as them – to self-organise and reclaim the right to political participation. “What...
View ArticleIn Pulling The Gaza Documentary, The BBC Is Failing Palestinian Children
Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone is a harrowing account of life in Gaza as seen through the eyes of Palestinian children. It provides a rare window into young lives devastated by months of relentless...
View ArticleIsrael’s Return To War Is a Prelude To Mass Expulsion
Two months after agreeing to a ceasefire deal that should have ended the war, Israel has resumed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip with an intensity that recalls the earliest days of the onslaught....
View ArticleThe Crisis Of African Liberators
On the eve of celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence on June 25, 1975, Mozambique is going through a political and human rights crisis that is unprecedented in its young history as a...
View ArticleUnenforced ICC Arrest Warrants Are Just Part Of The Wider Zionist Impunity...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be following up on his Hungarian counterpart Victor Orban’s invitation to visit his country, Israeli media have reported. This, despite the International...
View ArticleStudies Show Strong Public Support For China’s Political System
Conventional narratives in the West claim that the government in China lacks popular legitimacy and only retains power through coercion. But existing evidence from the two main studies on this question...
View ArticleThe Uphill Battle To Bring Women Into Construction Jobs Could Be Lost Under...
For decades, women have worked diligently to carve out a space in the construction workforce, where discrimination and sexual harassment have kept the predominantly male industry, well, male. Across...
View ArticleHighway Heist in Honduras: How Corporations Fleece Regular People in...
A private-public partnership to improve highway infrastructure in Honduras was supposed to be a boon for economic development. Instead, it quickly turned out to be a lose-lose agreement for an already...
View ArticleElite Media Paved Way for Trump’s Targeting of Columbia
President Donald Trump’s campaign against higher education started with Columbia University, both with the withholding of $400 million in funding to force major management charges (Wall Street Journal,...
View ArticleDeclassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations From The...
The U.S. government this week released thousands more records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, long a source of fascination and intrigue. This is the final batch of JFK files...
View ArticleTrump’s Attack on Union Card Check Looks and Smells Like Project 2025
The Trump regime has taken aim at yet another pro-worker policy, suggesting once again that it is both familiar and on board with Project 2025. Earlier this month, the US Federal Mediation and...
View ArticleAmid Right-Wing Attacks on Education, the American Association of University...
When the right-wing Heritage Foundation released its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise—better known as Project 2025—in 2023, its authors laid out a comprehensive framework for...
View ArticleTrump’s Expulsion of South Africa’s Ambassador May Well Backfire
The South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, left Washington D.C. on March 21 after Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the extraordinary step of declaring him “persona non...
View ArticlePortland Is Building a Model For Migrant Solidarity Under Trump
With the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigrant policies, community is more important than ever among migrant rights advocates. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, raids have...
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