The Dutch Asylum Crisis Law Is Baseless And Dangerous
On September 13, Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof held a press conference to announce his new government’s coalition agreement. Essential to these plans — as the coalition’s four right-wing to...
View ArticleHow Australia Helps the U.S. Destabilize Asia
September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from...
View ArticleA Ministry of Risk in A Time of War
“A ministry of risk goes unerringly to the side of the victims, to those threatened or destroyed by greed, prejudice, and war. From the side of those victims, it teaches two simple, indispensable...
View ArticlePower Research for Palestine: How Campus Organizers Are Using Research to...
The explosion of campus protest movements against Israel’s siege of Gaza, especially during the April 2024 encampments, has been historic. These movements showed the whole world that swaths of young...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Goes to School
The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight. Of...
View ArticleEat, Pray, Pollute
In July, a crowd of 3,000 anti-tourism protesters descended with delighted malice on posh downtown Barcelona. They cordoned off hotels and eateries with hazard tape, as if demarcating a crime scene....
View ArticleWar of Legitimacy – How the ICJ, UNGA Challenged Decades of Israeli, US...
Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18. The first was a most comprehensive ‘advisory opinion’ by the International Court of...
View ArticlePaulo Freire’s Legacy And The Necessity of Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world –Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19, 2025. Freire was not...
View Article“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts
Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S....
View ArticleIsraeli Anti-War Protests Grow
Accept the deal, end the war, out of Gaza!” Thousands of placards carrying this message, in both Hebrew and Arabic, were distributed last Saturday in the weekly anti-government protests in cities...
View ArticleTyson Foods Sued in Latest Meatpacker ‘Greenwashing’ Claim
Tyson Foods is being sued by campaigners who claim the US meat major is making “unsubstantiated environmental claims” about its products – known colloquially as greenwashing. The Environmental Working...
View ArticleKamala Harris Surrenders to Trump on Border Security and Endorses the War On...
The Democratic Party – for those of us paying attention – has become a shadow of the Republican Party, a miniature MAGA image impaled on the adjacent ground if you will. The Democrats now aspire to...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from Gen Z Workers
My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications and future careers. So, I was drawn to a recent...
View Article‘The Blessing’ for Genocide: Nearly All BRICS+ Regimes Nurture Israel,...
The Biden-Harris genocide-facilitation team is celebrating the latest atrocities from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon, as is to be expected from an imperialist core power bloc lacking an iota of...
View ArticleFossil-Fueled Climate Change Left Out of Media Coverage of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene tears through the southeastern United States as scientists say climate change rapidly intensifies hurricanes. The storm devastated large swaths of the southeastern United States after...
View ArticleIn Louisville, 5,200 GE Appliance Workers Gear Up for a Fight
Hundreds of workers who make dishwashers, refrigerators, washers and dryers, and other home appliances at GE Appliances in Louisville, Kentucky, rallied September 14 ahead of contract negotiations....
View ArticleEnough, Already: Why Humanity Must Get On Board With the Concept of...
Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis. Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use....
View ArticleThe Patient Reaper
After the Second World War the Global north created a gilded age in modern capitalism. That era ended in the 1980s, when it sped off, out and over the cliff, Road-runner-like, into the 2008 Crash. The...
View ArticleElection 2024
As the U.S. election nears, there is considerable controversy, confusion, consternation, and sometimes recrimination on the left. But most of all, there is a lot of anguish over the terrible choices we...
View ArticleWill the Forever Wars Ever End?
September marked the 23rd anniversary of al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. For the two decades since then, I’ve been writing, often for TomDispatch,...
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