Honoring Netanyahu; Dishonoring America
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to address a joint session of Congress on July 24. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson took the lead in extending the invitation last March. With the...
View ArticleMedia Ignores World Court Ruling Against Israeli Apartheid
Join ex-Army Ranger Greg Stoker on State of Play as he discusses in detail, with International Human Rights Lawyer Kristen Zornada @kristenzeta, what Friday’s historic ruling against Israel being an...
View ArticleIsrael Has Reduced Water Access in Gaza by 94 Percent Since October
Oxfam has warned that Israel’s longstanding policy of using water as a weapon against Palestinians has reached its peak amid Israel’s genocide, with water access for Palestinians in Gaza now at a small...
View ArticleNext American Revolution #10: Gender, Race, & Class
In which Reverend Stephen Du Bois, Robin Kunstler, Leslie Zinn, and Lydia Luxemburg discuss Religious Renovation, Legal Upheaval, and Media Makeovers [Author’s Note: This is the tenth excerpt from a...
View ArticleTrump’s Threat to Animals
I’ve been unsure how animal activists should orient themselves in the coming American presidential election. Obviously, in the United States’ two-party system we should vote for the Democratic nominee....
View ArticleLargest Study on Guaranteed Basic Income Proves Transformative for Participants
For eight years, researchers have been quietly putting together the largest, most comprehensive study on programs that give people a monthly stream of cash — no strings attached. Over time, does that...
View ArticleDoor-Knocking Trump Households
It’s great what happened yesterday, in so many ways, after Biden’s stepping down announcement and then endorsement of Harris. And it’s even better that as of now it looks very unlikely that anyone of...
View ArticleRepublicans Claim Harris Can’t Beat Trump — Don’t Believe Them
Hours after President Joe Biden announced that he would not seek reelection, Donald Trump declared that he believed Vice President Kamala Harris, the most likely Democratic nominee, would be easier to...
View ArticleThanks to Massive Mobilization of French Left, Far Right Cannot Control...
What are the results of the parliamentary elections in France on 7 July 2024? In the second round of France’s parliamentary elections on 7 July 2024, the National Rally (Rassemblement National -RN-)...
View ArticleWe Stand for Peace and Justice
Now more than ever, it is crucial that left activists and movements stand united against the extreme forces in our society that seek to destroy any semblance of democracy. Now more than ever, it is...
View ArticleNot Welcome: Jewish & Palestinian Activists Protest Netanyahu’s Address to...
Some 400 Jewish activists, including over a dozen rabbis, were arrested Tuesday during a sit-in inside the Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress and demand...
View ArticleThe True Power of the Green Party is Now: to Admit Our Own Powerlessness to...
The author of this gas is a philosopher and activist, founder Chair of Green House and current Director of the Climate Majority Project. He writes here as a long-standing member of the Green Party of...
View ArticleUrbánika’s SolarPunk Bus Tour and Video Course on the Commons
Urbánika is an international collective of tech commoners that calls itself an “immersive activism school.” Led by Humberto Besso-Oberto Huerta of Mexico, the group wants to help build peer-governed,...
View ArticleInside the Struggle to Stop the ‘Social Cleansing’ of Paris for the Olympics
With the approach of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, organizers and aid groups are working to ensure the continuation of social services in the city. They are also trying to stop the evictions of over...
View ArticleWho Are The Olympics For?
On Friday evening, the world’s attention will lock in on the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games as they return to Paris, the birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Games....
View ArticleSaving Seeds for Climate Justice
In this blog, Poppy Nicol, Dennis Touliatos and John Nzira report on a recent project comparing community-based seed networks in South Africa and Wales. By reflecting on their experiences they explore...
View ArticleUS Teachers Pushed Their Union to Divest From Israel. What Happened?
As the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention kicked off in Houston, Texas, this week, the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza was top of mind for many in attendance. “We’re going to...
View ArticleUnions Representing Six Million Workers Demand an End to All U.S. Military...
Seven national unions representing 6 million workers in the United States called on President Joe Biden today to end all military aid to Israel. The news came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
View ArticleGaza, the Democrats, and How to Fix Our Wretched Politics
How do we begin to encapsulate the political chaos of the past few months? Joe Biden’s soporific and incoherent June debate performance was followed by an attempt on Donald Trump’s life by a...
View ArticleDear West: Your ‘Age of Monsters’ Has Begun
Antonio Gramsci was not a professional philosopher. His intellect was refreshingly situated within an inherent bias towards the common people, the ‘subaltern’ classes, particularly the working class....
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