Balshazzar’s Feast, the US dollar and the ‘Invisible Hand’
My dear friend Frances Coppola and I were walking home last week and discussing empires – as girls do – when she reminded me of the tale of Balshazzar’s Feast. I had to confess to not having read...
View ArticleThe Art of Organizing
Organizing isn’t just a science, it’s also an art. Normally the latter is passed on through phone calls, debriefs, meetings, and late-night shit talk. This is an attempt to share with the next...
View ArticleOrganizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts
In the popular imaginary, Ford’s River Rouge complex has come to represent an industrial age long gone. Completed in 1928, the Rouge complex comprised ninety-three separate buildings in Dearborn,...
View ArticleNew Spider-Man Sequence: One Second Closer to Doomsday
In 2022, I was invited to participate in a book project that gathered leading scientists worldwide to address a topic that already seemed critically urgent: managing the nuclear order. In this context,...
View ArticleFive Years Since George Floyd’s Murder
GEORGE FLOYD WAS murdered on May 25, 2020 when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9-1/2 minutes while Floyd was handcuffed, pleading that he couldn’t breathe....
View ArticleThe Prisons of Gaza and Home – Fast for Gaza, Day 14
Here at the United Nations in New York City, the Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution calling on all parties to respect an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The slaughter in...
View ArticleWhat’s Really Happening in Palestine
Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza. Entire families are being wiped out, famine is spreading, and airstrikes are targeting shelters and schools. In the West Bank, killings and settler violence...
View ArticleLIVE Interview From Gaza Flotilla as Threats Escalate
Abby Martin speaks with Brazilian activist Thiago De Ávila, steering committee of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition, as he sails LIVE to Gaza alongside Greta Thunberg and others, discussing the...
View ArticleNational Teach-In: Media Literacy and Activism
In our recent teach-in on Noncooperation with Trump, we touched on many essential pillars of free societies and of liberatory movements — including, the media. As repression keeps on ramping up, we’re...
View ArticleA World Without iPhones?
Recently, I’ve been turning off my iPhone — all the way off! — for 10 to 30 minutes at a time. I leave it somewhere in the house, while I try to live IRL (“in real life”), washing dishes, hanging up...
View Article‘Prisons Are Akin To Chattel Slavery’: Inside The Big Business Of Prison...
Private companies and state governments have long exploited the 13th Amendment to create a profitable agribusiness system that runs on prison slave labor. “If you look at the history of agriculture in...
View ArticleOff to War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review
Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious distractions. And there is no more obvious distraction...
View ArticleAssault On Campus Free Speech Faces Growing Fightback
The kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil on the pretext of fighting antisemitism is just the start of moves to smash all dissent, but major resistance is mounting.The March arrest of Columbia University...
View ArticleNorman Finkelstein EXPOSES Israel’s Hidden Agenda on Piers Morgan
Norman Finkelstein breaks down how Israel’s “humanitarian aid” to Gaza was a smokescreen for a massacre — a prediction he made on Piers Morgan. He explores global fallout, real left politics & AI....
View ArticleCorporate Pride Is Dying. Good.
As Pride month kicks off under a hostile federal government that takes its cues from a homophobic and transphobic far-right movement, the typical steady drip of rainbow-painted logos and feel-good news...
View ArticleIs There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide?
After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift—but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United...
View ArticleNevada Vets Protest Being Sent to A Healthcare Desert
The new leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington has taken a lot of heat lately from VA patients, their care-givers, and members of Congress opposed to cuts in jobs and...
View ArticleThis Year, Flag Day Is ‘No Kings Day’
“Nah, he wouldn’t really do that.” I’ve lived in the Upper Delaware Valley for five years, first in Pike County, Pennsylvania, and now in Sullivan County, New York. My county went 58% for Trump last...
View ArticleSocial Self-Defense: From Protest to Movement-Based Opposition
Resistance to the second Trump regime was slow to start but is now emerging in myriad forms. They range from communities organizing to protect immigrants, trans kids, and political dissenters to...
View ArticleGaza’s ‘Humanitarian’ Façade: A Deceptive Ploy Unravels
The decision resonated as shocking for all sides. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose entire war strategy hinges on the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, unilaterally decided on May 19...
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