“Death Is Everywhere”: Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza and Lebanon Condemns...
As the Israeli military continues its assaults on Gaza and Lebanon, which have included the targeting of hospitals and ambulances and the killing of medical personnel, among other violations of...
View ArticleWhy a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism
Why is Palestine at the center of the climate and colonial struggle? How are capitalism and the ecological crisis linked? Who really benefits from the exploitation of resources in the Global South? At...
View ArticleTwo Words That Haunt So Many Hurricane Victims: ‘Claim Denied’
Do you know that you’re in good hands with Allstate? Or how about State Farm? Do you know that, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there? Of course you do. Insurance companies have been blasting...
View ArticleIsrael’s Genocidal Attack Has Unleashed ‘Most Profound Crisis Since the End...
Dozens of United Nations special rapporteurs warned in a grim statement Friday that the post-World War II international order is crumbling under the weight of Israel’s decimation of the Gaza Strip, an...
View ArticleHow Climate Change Threatens Workers
At least six workers in a Tennessee plastics factory are dead or missing after managers allegedly told them not to evacuate despite urgent warnings of severe flash flooding. What does this tragedy say...
View ArticleFor NYT’s ‘Free Speech’ Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don’t
What are the limits of free speech on a college campus? The New York Times has deployed one of its highest-ranking soldiers in the culture war against liberalism to remind us that the speech of white...
View ArticleA Mutiny Against the West’s Order
For a decade or so, the idea of a “world order” led by the West has been coming apart at the seams. The United States is increasingly unable to play its self-proclaimed role as global policeman, its...
View ArticleStarmer Permanently Ties UK Nuclear Arsenal To Washington
Labour has reinforced the “special relationship” with Washington by agreeing to make Britain’s nuclear arsenal permanently dependent on the US. In one of its first, but little-noticed foreign policy...
View ArticleCrypto Billionaires Could Flip the Senate To The GOP. Here’s What They Want.
After two elections where he bucked Ohio’s rightward trend, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is clinging to the narrowest of polling leads. If he loses to unpopular car salesman Bernie Moreno next month,...
View ArticleThe American Jewish Consensus Is Fracturing—and That’s a Blessing
As a rabbi, I’ve devoted my life to tending to the well-being of the American Jewish community. That community is now collapsing in on itself in a moment of true rupture—and that, I believe, is not...
View ArticleWhere Are the Voices for Peace?
Today is another huge national march for the people of Palestine, which I’m proud to be part of. I am grateful to the Morning Star for distributing papers to the wonderful people marching today. As we...
View ArticleCountering the Impact of the US Blockade
Cuba has endured a criminal US blockade for over six decades, while Venezuela is nearing a decade of life under sanctions. The stated aim of the blockades against both countries is to promote “regime...
View ArticleGlobal South Denounces Genocide in Gaza, Nicaragua Breaks Relations With...
More and more countries in the Global South are cutting relations with Israel, accusing it of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. United Nations experts have stated that there...
View ArticleMotaz Azaiza, Acclaimed Journalist From Gaza, On Photographing War & Making...
“I never expected the world will know my name [because of] a genocide of my people,” says Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who gained international acclaim for his work during the first 108...
View Article“People Love to Vote for a Raise”: Red States Gear Up for Minimum Wage Vote
This election season, there’s understandably been intense focus on ballot questions that will affect reproductive rights, but there’s been less discussion of the fact that multiple states will also be...
View ArticleThe Dangers of White Totalitarianism
In June 2015, a young white man named Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. After accepting an invitation to pray with the parishioners,...
View ArticleIs Kamala 2024 Clinton 2016?
You always got the sense that the Democratic Party resented having to learn anything from losing in 2016. There’s no doubt that all the excuse-making that followed — blaming Russia, James Comey, the...
View ArticleDispatches from Asheville: The Utopia We Dream of Becomes Most Visible in the...
The following are several dispatches from Firestorm, a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, has become a growing...
View ArticleDemocracy Dies in Crude Oil
Environmental activists rarely get to celebrate a major win for the planet, but that’s what happened in Ecuador in August last year. After a decade-long struggle between activists and the government, a...
View ArticleFrom National Security to International Security
Have human institutions evolved sufficiently to cope with the modern world? When it comes to national security, the answer appears to be: No. Ever since the emergence of individual nations, their...
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