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Top Papers Quoted More Wine Importers Than Union Leaders on Port Strike
At midnight on October 1, over 45,000 port workers across the Eastern US began a strike that was to last for three days. This labor action was only the latest in a series of high-profile confrontations...
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In Israel, Peace Is Not an Option
One year after the Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks, and with most of Gaza literally destroyed and the conflict in the Middle East growing, one may wonder what the mood is inside Israel. Israel’s...
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No Coal No Gas Builds On Recent Victory With Focus On Community And A New...
David Graeber once posited that “the biggest problem facing nonviolent direct action movements is that we don’t know how to handle victory.” He observed that, by the time activists recognize some of...
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The Assault On Democracy Goes Global
Much of the world looks bleak in the fall of 2024. Israel’s assault on Gaza, the world’s first livestreamed genocide, goes on unchecked, with material and diplomatic support from powerful countries....
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A National Movement to Organize Amazon Takes Off
The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain. A group of 100 warehouse workers at DCK6, an Amazon delivery station in San...
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Before Hurricane Helene, A Perfect Storm Of Climate Denialism
In the years before Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina last week, the state’s Republican lawmakers and corporate interests continually fought climate adaptation and mitigation measures that could...
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The State of the Left Reflects Our Ambivalence About the State
Heritage Foundation president and key architect of Project 2025 Kevin Roberts recently said, “we are in the process of a second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to...
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Ethiopia’s Quest for a Seaport, Egypt and the Geopolitics of the Nile Basin
At the beginning of 2024, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has been at war with his own people for the past five years, stirred regional tensions by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
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Operation Cast Joy
Now that Joe Biden is on his way into the history books as a president who refused to stop a genocide, we have his vice president coming into focus as the heir apparent should the voters choose her in...
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The Fragments of the World Seek Each Other
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.” These words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from his book The Phenomenon of Man, may...
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Neil Gorsuch’s Big Oil Pals Are Targeting Green Legislation
A fossil fuel giant with deep ties to Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch, along with other powerful pro-business groups, is explicitly pressuring Gorsuch and his fellow justices to rule in favor of oil...
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The Panama Canal Needs More Water. The Solution Could Displace Thousands.
Thousand-foot-long ships chug through the Panama Canal’s waters each day, over the submerged stumps of a forgotten forest and by the banks of a new one, its canopies full of screeching parrots and...
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Got Dopamine? Why the Flaccid, Feckless Democrats Fail
I am no psychic, but I can forecast a few basic things. For example, as a very casual baseball fan I am modestly certain that Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge will be selected as the respective MVPs of...
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A Victory Within Reach: Realizing Teacher Unionism’s Progressive Potential in...
From his grave, Albert Shanker, or more accurately, the machine he built, controls the largest teachers union in the world, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which represents about 200,000 New...
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Port Strike Ends, Workers Win $24 Wage Increase
East Coast Longshore workers with the International Longshoremen’s Association are returning to work, after three raucous days on the picket lines. They received a promise of a $24-an-hour pay raise...
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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Suggest
From the very beginning of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had his hands on the steering wheel. After October 7, Blinken was the first senior U.S. official to...
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Worldwide Demonstrations Mourn and Condemn ‘Year of Genocide’ in Gaza
Tens of thousands of people around the world took to the streets Sunday just ahead of the one-year anniversary of Israel’s catastrophic assault on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 41,000...
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How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War
A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped...
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Growing Old in the Age (And That’s the Appropriate Word!) of Trump
After Joe Biden was shuffled off stage on trumped-up charges of senility, I started thinking seriously about the weaponization of old age in our world. Who gets credit for old age and who gets the...
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Single Point of Failure: Hurricane Helene and High-Tech’s Low-Tech Vulnerability
Among the horrific reports about the damage Hurricane Helene unleashed on the southeastern United States was one about Spruce Pine, North Carolina, population 2,194 (as of the 2020 census). The town...
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