Trumpism As the Nazism of Our Time!
Unfortunately, the sad reality is that, thanks above all to Trump and his closest associates, the specter of Hitler is once again hovering over Europe and the world! This is a major event, as it was...
View ArticleThe Tenderloin: A People’s History of SF’s Most Notorious Neighborhood
“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San Francisco neighborhoods have had more ups and downs than the 33-block area...
View ArticleWho Pays the Price For the Return of German Militarism?
Driven by geopolitical interests and the scramble for resources, the Ukrainian conflict has already claimed countless lives and displaced millions. The idea that more weapons will bring peace is a...
View ArticleTop Scientists Issue Urgent Warning on Fossil Fuels
In a review published today in the peer-reviewed journal Oxford Open Climate Change, top scientists issued an urgent warning that fossil fuels and the fossil fuel industry are driving interlinked...
View ArticleLiberal Internationalism After USAID
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s recent decision to dismantle USAID, liberal internationalists have rallied, galvanized by the attack to defend the value of their institutions. Established...
View ArticleThe Failures of Pakistan’s Hard State Approach to Balochistan
Pakistan’s escalating repression in Balochistan, particularly against the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) and other activists, has laid bare the state’s shift towards an explicitly authoritarian...
View ArticleResist the Rule of Garbage
About ten years ago, I wrote an article titled Garbage Rises with which I meant to discuss the god awful reality of so-called American meritocracy. Risking repetition, I wrote another piece in the same...
View ArticleAnother Heinous War Crime: Israeli Army Kills 15 First Responders in Gaza
In yet another brazen war crime, the Israeli army has murdered eight medics, six civil defense responders, and a United Nations employee. The bodies of the first responders and the UN staff were buried...
View ArticleIsrael Resumes Genocidal Campaign in Gaza
After seven weeks of a ceasefire, Israel suddenly resumed its genocidal bombing campaign on March 18. In surprise air attacks in the middle of the night, it killed at least 400 Palestinians. In the...
View ArticleA Full-Time Job Won’t Save You From Homelessness in the US
Brian Goldstone, author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” joins the show to discuss the alarming new epidemic of full-time workers falling into homelessness. Goldstone...
View ArticleInside the Resurgence of Jewish-led Palestine Solidarity
Over the last year and a half, the movement for Palestinian liberation has become one of the largest American social movements of the decade. Not only that, there has also been an incredible resurgence...
View ArticleBillionaires Salivate Over Plan to Privatize the Post Office
Trump, Musk, and the billionaires are trying to privatize the Post Office among several other government services. Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the real story behind these attacks.
View ArticleAttacks on Federal Workers Are an Injury to All
Almost every day the Trump administration fires another broadside at dedicated federal employees. It might be another executive order, like the one stripping many civil servants of their job...
View ArticleAmerican Universities Are Complicit in Their Own Destruction
To call what we are witnessing in this country an unprecedented assault on basic democratic freedoms would be an understatement. Universities are being strong-armed by the ruling regime to abandon even...
View ArticleTrump and His Impossible Return to the Past
The radical return to protectionism is not only possible but necessary for an empire facing an undeniable decline. It has been denounced by critical analysts but certified by leading intellectuals of...
View Article‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More
Trump’s trade policies have been wildly unpredictable in the first two months of his second presidency. Tariff deadlines have come and been delayed with no rhyme or reason, leaving cross-border trade...
View ArticleSecrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National...
View ArticleBernie’s Memory Needs a Tune Up
Senator Bernie Sanders has been holding public meetings about what he calls “Fighting Oligarchy.” There is much good about this. At the same time, Sanders has advertised his tour and criticized...
View ArticleIsrael’s Genocide Has Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined: Report
More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history, a new report says....
View ArticleThe Ghost of Russia’s Hybrid Warfare in Europe
On March 19, 2025, the Inspector General of the German Bundeswehr, Carsten Breuer, and the professor of international politics and military expert Carlo Masala were guests on the prominent TV talk show...
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