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Boris Kagarlitsky: The Hobbesian World of “Multipolarity”
In today’s Russian prisons, a sign of a prosperous and materially well-off cell is the presence of a television set, usually provided together with a refrigerator. For me, the television is less a...
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The People’s Minimum Demands and Abahlali’s Position on Election 2024
In the 19 years since our movement was founded we have struggled to liberate ourselves from the chains of poverty, indignity and repression. We have organised in our communities, built new communities...
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Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread...
Columbia University canceled in-person classes Monday as campus protests over the war in Gaza enter a sixth day. The protests have swelled after the school administration called in the police to clear...
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Whose Side Are You on, the People or the Polluters?
It’s well known that Republicans are “friendly” to corporations. But, as Montana’s top elected officials, Gov. Greg Gianforte and Attorney General Austin Knudsen, increasingly side with the polluters,...
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Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Silencing Black History
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is perhaps best known for the “Little Rock Nine,” the first Black students to walk through the school’s grand front doors. The year was 1957, three years...
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5 Reasons Why What Congress Just Did Does Not Help Ukraine
You may have heard that the U.S. Congress is finally doing the decent, moral, liberal, democratic, Democratic thing and aiding Ukraine. You may believe, as pretty much everyone I ask tells me, that...
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Debt, Dictatorship, and Haiti’s Crisis: It Has Not Always Been This Way
Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the...
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Don’t Talk To Me About Solutions
It’s 2024 and I’m suspicious of “solutions”. Solutions to what, exactly? The excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have already seen us breach the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement?...
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Ahead of Treaty Negotiations, Hundreds March to ‘End the Plastic Era’
Days before national delegates gather for the fourth and penultimate negotiations to develop a Global Plastics Treaty in Ottawa, Canada, around 500 Indigenous and community representatives, members of...
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Europe’s Indifference to Rwanda’s Atrocities is Costing Congolese Lives
In April 2012, a group of largely Tutsi Congolese military officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mutinied and crossed the border into Rwanda, where they announced the creation of a new...
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1964’s Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights Work We Need to Do
The day after I graduated from college, I jumped into a car with my roommate and another friend and headed south to Mississippi. We were in good spirits after graduation, but we were in a racially...
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NATO’s Never-Ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully is Faltering
The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing. Yet, that over-simplified discourse must be...
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Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at...
Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
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Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, Fifty Years Later
For forty years I have been writing an article about each decade of the revolution of April 25, 1974 that brought democracy back to Portugal after 48 years of dictatorship. The analysis of...
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The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students
Friends, The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them. That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions, and values. And what...
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Old Man World
Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which makes me just over a year-and-a-half younger than Joe Biden and almost two years older than Donald Trump. And, honestly, I know my...
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Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the...
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How Reaganomics Fueled America’s Homelessness Crisis
Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of...
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Opening Statements: Catch-and-Kill to Elect Trump
For starters, some important news: The state of New York will make daily transcripts of the trial available. They announced each day’s transcript would be available by the end of the following day. You...
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‘What Happens in Palestine Won’t Stay There’: Rania Khalek On Why Israel Is A...
BT’s Rania Khalek addressed the World Gathering for a Social Alternative in Caracas, Venezuela on why Israel is a threat to humanity.
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