Israel Unmasked
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” —Pablo Neruda For over a year, the masters of war in Israel and the United States, abetted by the corporate media, have buried...
View ArticleBiden Stands Aside as Netanyahu Incinerates Gaza, Now Lebanon
Biden’s bombs and missiles, dropped daily on Lebanon, a U.S. ally, by his puppet master Netanyahu, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless country. The Israeli genocidal machine is waging an...
View ArticleErrol Morris’s Reminder of Trump’s Sadistic Border Policy
The new documentary by Errol Morris called Separated, which is considered a likely Academy Awards contender for Best Documentary, was made with the plan to share it with the public before the election....
View ArticleIn the Shadow of King Coal
Writer and director Elaine McMillion Sheldon begins her latest documentary, King Coal, with a funeral rite. A multigenerational, multiracial procession of people in black clothing walks slowly up a...
View ArticleThe 3-Fold Definition of Capitalism: Power, Property, Capital
For a while I have been talking on this channel about a heterodox definition of capitalism. A definition that does not discuss capitalism to be mainly about free markets, private ownership of the means...
View ArticleThe Road Ahead
The world we live in today is a result of a very strong “development complex” where economy and markets, energy and other technologies, culture and many other things give positive, affirmative, feed...
View ArticleWant to Get Money Out of Politics? Arizona Had a Solution.
Arizona state politics were verging on comically corrupt before the turn of the century. In 1988, Governor Ed Mecham was impeached for misusing government funds and obstructing an investigation into...
View ArticleHousing Crisis Super-Charged by Billionaire Investors Disrupting Housing Market
On October 21, Popular Democracy, a national alliance of 50 grassroots organizations across 33 states demanding transformational change for Black, brown, and working class communities, and the...
View ArticleFor Trans People Reliant on Federal Programs, This Election Could Change...
Chauntey Wilson, a formerly incarcerated transgender woman, got the health care she needed while Donald Trump was president. She fears others may not be able to if he’s elected to a second term....
View ArticleVictims of Family Policing Are Leading a Movement to Abolish It
In December 2020, Samantha Hudson arrived with her daughters, ages 2 and 4, at ACCESS Housing family shelter in Adams County, one of the most economically depressed regions in the Denver area. Hudson,...
View ArticleThird-Party Funder is the Only Winner in Odyssey Marine Exploration’s Suit...
Mexico is trying to protect the environment and fishing communities off the country’s northwest coast from the harmful effects of offshore mining. For that, the government will in all likelihood pay a...
View ArticleThe Global South Must Step Up on Palestine: The Role of Latin America
Defenders of Palestinian rights need to demand more serious diplomacy, especially from the Global South, in a world of European and Middle Eastern docility and Latin American bravado without content....
View ArticleWhy Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?
It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s United States, some of the conventional wisdom around age and ideology is...
View ArticleStep By Step, We Built a Movement to Transform Our Local Government
Another city is possible: Members of Our Revolution in Medford, MA united residents to end conservative minority rule, elect a progressive majority, and build the community each of us deserves. For...
View ArticleCOP or CON? How Big Conservation Captured Biodiversity Protection
Heads of state and ministers from across the world will meet for the COP16 biodiversity summit from 21 October to 1 November in Cali, Colombia. Credit: COP16. Some 31 years after the Convention on...
View ArticleThe Great October Revolution: A Nightmare Dressed Like a Daydream?*
This year marks the 107th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. In the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in Petrograd (today’s St. Petersburg) was stormed. This event marked the...
View Article“Will You Bring My Dad and Give Me My Hand Back?”
“War is not healthy for children and other living things,” reads a poster titled “Primer” created by the late artist Lorraine Schneider for an art show at New York’s Pratt Institute in 1965. Printed in...
View Article“An Ecological War Is Going On”: Uganda Charcoal Booms Despite Ban
When Mustapha Gerima decided to drop in on his home village of Midigo in northern Uganda’s Yumbe district in 2016, he never imagined the visit would change the whole trajectory of his life. He was...
View ArticleCalifornia Law Mandates That Public School Children Be Taught About State’s...
From the time the Europeans arrived on American shores, the U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Indigenous people and at the conclusion of the “Indian wars” in the late 19th...
View ArticleMeet Lucie Castets, the French Left’s Nominee for Prime Minister
This July 7, after President Emmanuel Macron called surprise elections for France’s National Assembly, voters elected a parliament with no overall majority. While polls indicated probable victory for...
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