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The Tim Walz VP Pick Shows America’s Politics Are Changing
The vibes have not been this good for a long time. Only two weeks after President Joe Biden’s decision to end his campaign turned the 2024 election on its head, Vice President Kamala Harris has shocked...
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Across Europe, Gaza Has Become a Litmus Test for the Left
If at Harvard earlier this year students received their degrees in the colors of Palestine, in Paris this same flag was waved by France Insoumise MPs in parliament. Each set of images remind us of a...
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The Coming Tax-the-Rich Rumble in Rio
For the richest among us, life on Earth can sometimes get rather boring. But worry not for our world’s deepest pockets. At least five firms worldwide, notes the swanky lifestyle Robb Report, are now...
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AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush’s Race–and Our Elections
Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, MO who is a member of the “Squad” and has been a powerful voice in Congress for poor people, women’s rights, healthcare, housing–and...
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Zionism on the Brink: The Gaza War Beyond Netanyahu
The idea that Israel’s war on Gaza is essentially waged and sustained by and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated political analyses on the subject for some time. The notion is...
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Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to produce ever-greater economic inequality. Oxfam, a global charity, reported that...
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Rwanda: The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Election
At the 15 July presidential election, sitting president Paul Kagame secured a 99.18 per cent victory. The participation rate was a whopping 99.86 per cent. Although voting is not compulsory,...
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Pundits Push for Regional Escalation in the Wake of Israeli Assassinations
Following Israel’s assassinations of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut—along with a woman and two children (Al Jazeera, 7/30/24)—and of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, corporate media...
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Jeremy Scahill on New Head of Hamas, Questions About Haniyeh Assassination &...
Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as successor to former senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warmly...
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Participation Is Our Biggest Advantage in the Fight Against Authoritarianism
This is part of a series of interviews with experienced organizers and movement thinkers on ways to defend and expand democracy amidst the rising authoritarian tide globally. For more than 40 years,...
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Why We Need a Four-Day Workweek
Earlier this year, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act. This legislation aims to reduce our standard forty-hour workweek down to 32, spread over four days and...
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The Conundrums of Bangladeshi Politics
On Monday, August 5, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her plane was refueled and...
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We Must Oppose Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late
Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in history up to our necks,” he observed, yet we must wager that...
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Gaza’s Children Face an Unseen Crisis
Until this year, the Alashi siblings — Said, 16, Jihan, 15, and Hanan, 12 — were at school and knew only the routine of life in Gaza. The two sisters aspired to be artists. Now they dream of mastering...
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Britain’s Riots Are Designed to Terrorize Muslims
Last year, shortly after securing my academic position at King’s College London, I faced a concerted effort by certain Home Office advisers to get me dismissed. They wanted me ousted due to my...
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The Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world — surrounded the remote community of Tabaco....
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Between Optimism and Despair: The Messy Middle Paths Through Climate Breakdown
In the escalating drama of climate breakdown — especially as we navigate the apparent crossing of the 1.5C warming threshold — a binary is emerging that wastes a huge amount of time, energy and...
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In Australia, Labor Is Criminalizing the Construction Union
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has launched an extraordinary offensive against the militant construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU). Citing...
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UK Riots: Racism and Islamophobia Meets Community Unity
The legacy left by the Conservatives after 14 years in government is not just economic stagnation, and the destruction of public services, it is social division, far right extremism and anger....
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Healthcare at a Crossroads
As the November election approaches, the nation again nears a crossroads on healthcare, with candidates diverging on a basic question of equity: who is to bear the risks and costs of care? For Donald...
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