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Post-Normal Times That Need Deep Democracy
In an interview with an Associate Professor of International Relations at University of the Witwatersrand we talk about why the South African experience can help us understand our present world and...
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Egad: Lying, Clickbait, Rabbit Holes, Trump, and Palestine
My aim in what follows is to suggest some possible linkages that point toward some possible ways to understand some possible trends among some possible constituencies about some possible issues, which...
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How Israel Is Using Disease as a Weapon in Gaza
The Israelis created a public health crisis in Gaza that has led to the reemergence of polio. To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Lebanese medical doctor and public health researcher...
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Cal State Professors Targeted for Exposing School’s Ties to Israel’s Genocide...
Last month, in a tangible victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement, San Francisco State University (SFSU) agreed to pull its investment from four companies tied to weapons...
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An Uncommitted Cofounder Explains the Movement’s Strategy
The Uncommitted movement started as a way for voters to register their discontent with the position of the Democratic Party leadership in general, and Joe Biden in particular, with respect to Israel’s...
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Israeli Air Force Burns Up 20 Refugee Tents, Kills 40, In Strikes on...
Al Jazeera Arabic reports that the Israeli occupation army committed yet another massacre on Monday evening, targeting a tent encampment of internally displaced refugees in the al-Mawasi area of the...
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Old Growth Logging Challenged in Bitterroot National Forest
The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot National...
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Bridging Political Divides Through Solidarity
How should unions engage with members drawn to right-wing, anti-worker politics and candidates? One union trying to tackle this disconnect is the Communications Workers (CWA). Steve Lawton, former...
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Barred From Government, France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward
Democracy is not just the art of accepting that you’ve won, it’s also the humility of accepting that you’ve lost,” insists Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He was speaking on Saturday at the first demonstration...
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The Urgent Need for Peace in Sudan
Last month, the International Rescue Committee, described the crisis in Sudan as the top global humanitarian emergency. On August 28, Lawrence O’Donnell described the war in Sudan as the “least...
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Tariq Ali on U.S. & U.K. Arming Israel’s War on Gaza, Pakistan Protests &...
We speak to acclaimed historian, activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali about Western governments’ support for Israel’s war on Gaza and popular protest in support of Palestine, which Ali calls the “biggest...
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“A Horrifying Undercount” – True Gaza Death Toll Could Be Many Times Higher
Former presidential candidate and celebrated consumer advocate Ralph Nader discusses Israel’s war on Gaza, the U.S. presidential election and more. Nader’s latest article, “Exposing the Gaza Death...
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There Is No Such Thing as Spontaneous Worker Organizing
This engaging interview with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein sheds light on the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and its enduring impact on American labor....
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The End of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Process?
Gerardo Rojas is a community organiser in Barquisimeto, Lara, and a Chavista activist, a reference to the political movement of the working-class poor that backed former Venezuelan president Hugo...
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A Personal Meditation on Growing Old in a Catastrophic Age
The Washington Post headline reads: “A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.” For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five generations are competing in the...
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US Militarism Is a Leading Cause of the Climate Catastrophe
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs This week marks 23 years since George W. Bush declared a U.S.-led “war on terror” and the people of Afghanistan and Iraq are still suffering its...
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Biden’s Legacy: The Decline of Arms Control and Disarmament
Last month, I reported on the Biden administration’s new nuclear doctrine to prepare the United States for a coordinated nuclear challenge from Russia, China, and North Korea. The Biden doctrine...
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Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
On the presidential debate stage Tuesday, former President Donald Trump spewed reliably racist and lie-riddled diatribes about towns being taken over by “millions of people pouring into our country...
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The Live-Streamed Genocide in Gaza Exposes US Complicity for All to See
With a military budget greater than the next 10 countries combined, the U.S. naturally remains an international hegemon. But it’s not the benevolent empire it once sold itself as to the globe. Now, as...
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A Left That Doesn’t Take the Lead in the Fight Against the Climate Crisis Has...
What follows is not addressed to the right and its supporters (economic, social and other) who – unfortunately – are doing their job very well. What follows is addressed above all to the left, which –...
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