New York Amazon Delivery Drivers Join the Teamsters in Surge of Momentum
Hundreds of Amazon drivers at a delivery station in Queens, New York, marched on their bosses today to announce they are joining the Teamsters. They are demanding the logistics giant recognize their...
View ArticleThe Sphinx and the Sultan
At least one thing is now obvious in the Middle East: the Biden administration has failed abjectly in its objectives there, leaving the region in dangerous disarray. Its primary stated foreign policy...
View ArticleTrump’s Claims About Haitians Draw From a Centuries-Long Narrative. These...
Call it a mother’s intuition. After former President Donald Trump repeated a vicious smear about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, during his September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, many...
View ArticleRunning With the Anarchists to Support Political Prisoners
Running around Echo Park Lake, watching swan-shaped pedal boats glide over the water, I felt free. At least a little. That’s what unencumbered activity, like running, can do for a person. It does that...
View ArticleClimate Crisis Is the Defining Issue of Our Time. Where Was It at the Debate?
On one of the most consequential nights in the 2024 presidential race, the fate of our entire planet received all of 120 seconds. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were...
View ArticleAncient Settlements Show That Commoning is ‘Natural’ for Humans, Not...
When I’ve had conversations about the commons with right-leaning people (and sometimes cynical people on the left too), a typical response might be something along the lines of: ‘don’t waste your time...
View ArticleThe Kenyan Uprising
More than two months after its government’s controversial Finance Bill 2024 sparked widespread unrest, the flame of resistance remains bright across Kenya. The youth-led struggle—largely forged on...
View ArticleCan the World Save Palestine From US-Israeli Genocide?
On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months....
View Article“Netanyahu Wants Open-Ended War”: Palestinian Journalist & Fmr. Israeli...
As Israeli forces launch repeated attacks on civilian areas in Gaza, expand their deadly incursion into the West Bank and threaten retaliation for strikes by Hezbollah and Houthis, we discuss ceasefire...
View ArticleThe Innocent Man Missouri Wants to Execute
The State of Missouri is scheduled to execute Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Sept. 24 for a crime that even prosecutors now say he did not commit. On Sept. 12, a Missouri judge denied a motion filed...
View ArticleTurkey Is Looking to Forge Its Own BRICS Path Between East and West
Turkey tends to march to its own drum in international affairs. Take the United Nations vote on Dec. 14, 2022, when the body’s General Assembly approved a resolution in favor of a New International...
View ArticleWe Need a Global Campaign to Support the Sahrawi Liberation Struggle
Eye on Western Sahara is the monthly newsletter of the US-based Campaign to End the Moroccan Occupation of Western Sahara (freewesternsahara.org). The Campaign is a diverse coalition of individuals...
View ArticleCall to Action: A Remarkable Open Letter on US Designation of Cuba as Sponsor...
Ignacio Ramonet, academician and former editor of Le Monde diplomatique, has written an open letter to President Joe Biden. It offers nations, organizations, and individuals a golden moment for getting...
View ArticleForests Thrive When Indigenous People Have Legal Stewardship of Their Land
Forests are essential for life on Earth. Because they produce oxygen and help regulate the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere, forests are known as the “lungs of the Earth.” For...
View ArticleOctober 1: Nationwide Rallies to Save the Postal Service
The Postal Workers (APWU) will hold a national day of action on October 1, with rallies all across the country for better staffing and better service, a better contract that ends the two-tier wage...
View ArticleUS Senator Lindsey Graham: Ukraine Sits on ‘Trillion Dollars Worth of...
US Senator Lindsey Graham has argued that Washington must support Ukraine because of its lucrative natural resources. During a visit to Kiev in September, Graham published a video standing next to...
View Article‘An Act of Terror’: Israel Behind Pager Explosions That Killed 11, Wounded...
Several news outlets confirmed late Tuesday what was widely suspected: Israel’s military and intelligence services were behind the explosions of pagers recently purchased by the Lebanese political...
View ArticleIsrael’s True Objectives in Gaza and Why It Will Fail
Never in its history of war and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future and the future of its victims. Even a quick glance at headlines in...
View ArticleLebanon and the Israeli Strategy of Intimidation
[This article was written hours before the mass terrorist act that targeted Hezbollah members through pagers in the afternoon of 17 September, thus enhancing its title’s topicality.] In recent days,...
View ArticlePalestinians in Occupied Palestine: Defying Zionism and Imperialism
The United States has had no qualms about casting its lot with the most openly and thoroughly racist regime Israel has ever produced. That fact has been obscured, or intentionally disappeared, in the...
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