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“Solidarity, Coordination, and Collective Power” — An Interview with Chile’s...
Intro: Starbucks workers in Chile have been on strike for 20 days. On Friday, March 21, members of the Starbucks Workers Union held their second national assembly, meeting in person in Santiago and...
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Postal Workers Under Attack And In Struggle
he mail service workers in the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) have been in a battle over their working conditions as well as their customers’ access to the essential public service for...
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Austria’s Incipient Reversion to Authoritarianism
“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straightjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute...
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The Shifting Alliances And Militarisation Of The Western Balkans
In September 2024, a well-known media outlet from Albania reached out to me for my perspective on a recent €2.7 billion deal between France and Serbia, signed by Presidents Macron and Vučić, to provide...
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Inside Europe’s Biggest Protest Movement You Haven’t Heard Of
Serbian student organiser Nina Petrov joins our host Mehran Khalili us to explain how a local tragedy sparked a national uprising. What started with 15 minutes of silence has become the largest protest...
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Goodbye, LINKE!
This past week was one for the history books. The German parliament amended the constitutional debt brake so as to enable unlimited military spending, irrespectively of how deeply into the red it will...
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First, They Came for the Venezuelans
President Donald Trump promised to unleash mass deportations on immigrants during his presidential campaign. But he has gone much further, with the disappearing of hundreds of Venezuelan nationals from...
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Thousands Protest ICE Abduction of Tufts Student as Trump Attacks at...
As reports surfaced Wednesday that Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University Ph.D. student who was abducted by immigration agents off a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, had been taken to a detention...
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“Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D....
Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the...
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Robert W. McChesney, a Scholar/Activist Who Fought for Media Democracy
Robert W. McChesney was a leading voice and a precious colleague in the battle for a more democratic media system, and a more democratic society. Bob passed away on Tuesday, March 24, at the age of 72....
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National Teach-In: Noncooperation with Trump
What can ordinary, busy people do about a U.S. government and society quickly swinging toward fascism? What do we know from the past and present and around the world about what works? Where do we...
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Hip-Hop Star Macklemore on New Film “The Encampments” & Why He Speaks Out...
We’re joined by the four-time Grammy-winning musician Macklemore, a vocal proponent of Palestinian rights and critic of U.S. foreign policy. He serves as executive producer for the new documentary The...
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Shaking the Cherries Down
It’s spring, a season of hope, and the prairie grass is dry, waiting for sparks. And we face a clear challenge from the Trump fascist clique. People are suffering. Some are being “disappeared.” We are...
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How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
The arrival of COVID-19 in the United States kicked off an ongoing period of job insecurity within the media industry. In April 2020, the New York Times reported that about 37,000 news company...
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The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up a few friends, and make some calls. Follow that simple...
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The Elephant in the Room
The months-long frenzy surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election both masked and underscored the presence of a very worrisome elephant in the room. I’m not referring to the Republican Party, but...
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ICE Got Warrants Under “False Pretenses,” Claims Columbia Student Targeted...
Earlier this month, while hunting for Columbia University students to deport over their ties to Gaza protests, the Trump administration convinced a federal judge to sign off on search warrants for two...
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The First 50 Days
Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both what had been done in the name of...
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Trump Goes Nuclear on the Federal Workforce
In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an executive order that claimed to end collective bargaining rights for nearly the whole...
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War, Doublethink, and the Struggle for Survival: Geopolitics of the Gaza...
In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global powers supporting him continue to sacrifice Palestinian...
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