Reproductive Work From The Time Of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been well known for its socialist feminism – the politics that helped to create a state with a highly developed health-care system, with excellent...
View ArticleThe Digital Coup D’état of Musk, Zuckerberg & Trump
Only a few weeks ago, the orange monster of the Unites States was speaking in the very place his Neo-Nazi thugs wanted to destroy not so long ago – the US Congress. In typical showbiz-fashion – the...
View ArticleThe Limits of Basic Income
Universal basic income (UBI) has captured the attention of many progressives over the past several years. Simply put, it’s the idea that every citizen should receive an unconditional transfer of money...
View ArticleWho Has Time To Think About Nuclear Weapons?
“Pretty far from the pulse.” That was the comment someone on social media wrote below a photo of me getting arrested at an anti-nuclear protest near the United Nations earlier this month. Despite being...
View ArticleRevolution?
I wonder how many people reading these words know the significance of April 19th to US Americans, and others, to all of us worldwide who value democracy and justice for all. What is April 19th? It’s...
View Article‘Tesla Takedown’ Protesters Planning ‘Biggest Day Of Action’
Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th, organizers said during a mobilizing call Wednesday. The...
View ArticleDecades of Media Myths Made Social Security Vulnerable to Political Attack
As the hack-and-slash crusade of the “Department of Government Efficiency” picked up steam in early February, the Washington Post editorial board (2/7/25) gave President Donald Trump a tip on how to...
View ArticleA Jeremiad for Working People
US Corporate Class Delight The oligarchs are laughing. The corporatists are laughing. They are laughing at working people as the big con continues. They are laughing at the corporate Democratic Party...
View ArticleIsrael Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital as Genocide Continues to Escalate
U.S.-backed Israeli forces drew international condemnation Friday after bombing the only cancer hospital in the Gaza Strip, where more than 700 Palestinians including over 200 children have been killed...
View Article“When The Banality Of Evil Becomes Normalized, It Grows Unchecked.”
February tends to be a pretty harsh time of year in Berlin. Freezing temperatures, short days, and perpetually gray skies weigh heavy upon the city’s inhabitants, amplifying an already fraught...
View ArticleThe European Union Is Endorsing Israel’s Attack on Gaza
Since Donald Trump abruptly changed US policy toward Ukraine, there has been a lot of talk about European countries needing to step up to the plate and defend the liberal international order....
View ArticleDemocracy’s Breaking Point
How we lost our rights in the kingdom of Musk-Trump As a person who consumes large amounts of information about peace and conflict in the world, I spend a considerable amount of time talking with...
View ArticleThe Dark Enlightenment: the Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction
The future of American democracy isn’t being dismantled by accident; it’s being systematically replaced to prepare the way for something entirely new. A radical ideology known as the Dark Enlightenment...
View ArticleReclaiming the Narrative: Why Palestinians Must Own the Means of Content...
My journey into the realm of people’s history began during my teenage years when I first read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. This initial exposure sparked my curiosity about how...
View ArticleThe Weight of Fear: The Silent Erosion of Academic Freedom
There was a time when the university was imagined as a space of intellectual risk, where thought could move freely, unrestricted by the anxieties of power or professional survival. That time is long...
View ArticleThe Anti-Constitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and temporary visitors is flagrantly unconstitutional. It defies over 120 years of...
View ArticleWe Shouldn’t Have to Work This Hard
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that technological progress and economic growth would solve the problem of material scarcity. In one hundred years, Keynes anticipated in his...
View ArticleCould Elon Musk Actually Destroy Social Security as We Know It?
Why is Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, hyperventilating about Social Security? Why is he inventing unhinged tales about “fraudulent” hordes of Social Security grifters? Why is his “DOGE”...
View ArticleTesla, Big Oil Have a Weakness in Common
It must have seemed like a huge week for the fossil fuel industry: as the Wall Street Journal put it yesterday (and you could sense the headline writer’s glee), “The fossil fuel industry gets its...
View ArticleCanada Is Poised to Become a Partner in the US Assault on Immigrants
The Trump administration promises to double down on what it says will be the fiercest deportation program in U.S. history. Judging by history and rhetoric, the administration has no qualms about...
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