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LA Times Non-Endorsement Another Sign of Our Billionaire-Dominated Politics
The Los Angeles Times will not be making a presidential endorsement in this election, the first time the paper has stayed silent on a presidential race since 2004. But the decision not to endorse a...
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Israel’s Limited Strikes On Iran Show The Enormous Constraints Faced By...
The limited strikes on Iran carried out by Israeli fighter-jets early on Saturday morning Tehran time above all demonstrated the constraints under which even this extremist Israeli government has to...
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She Exposed a Prestigious Medical Journal’s Silence on the Holocaust. Now...
Earlier this year, two Harvard medical historians published an article on a leading American medical journal’s willful ignorance of Nazi atrocities in the 1930s and ’40s. The article found that the New...
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Israel Kills The Journalists. Western Media Kills The Truth Of Genocide in Gaza
Israel knew that, if it could stop foreign correspondents from reporting directly from Gaza, those journalists would end up covering events in ways far more to its liking. They would hedge every...
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BRICS Is Mounting A Challenge To The US-Led World Order — But For Whom?
The recently concluded 2024 BRICS (an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazan and attended by...
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Five Ways To Approach The Election With A Movement Mindset
The election will be over in less than two weeks, but there are still many who are angsting over who to vote for at the top of the ticket. Might a better understanding of the role elections play in...
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Literary Institutions Are Pressuring Authors to Remain Silent About Gaza
When writer and disability justice activist Alice Wong received a MacArthur Fellowship earlier this month, she shared a statement about accepting it “amidst the genocide happening in Gaza.” The...
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‘Not Good Enough’: Striking Machinists Reject New Boeing Offer
After 40 days on strike, 33,000 Machinists rejected an improved contract offer from Boeing by 64 percent on Wednesday. The offer included a 35 percent wage increase over 4 years. Members of Machinists...
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BRICS Breakthrough? Economists Richard Wolff & Patrick Bond on Growing...
Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world’s U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, we host a debate between American economist Richard...
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Cuba Struggles Amid Hurricanes, Sanctions, and Blackouts
To say that Cuba has had a trying week would be an understatement. After a grid failure last Friday caused four days of nationwide blackouts and a Category One hurricane smashed into the eastern...
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Harris’s Silence on FTC Chair Shows Billionaires Are Winning the Election
he Veepification of U.S. politics reached its climax this month, as Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on a swing state campaign tour alongside former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney. Their slogan?...
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How the Israeli Attack on Iran Could Seed a New World War
If you ask the average citizen of any country whether their leaders should start wars, almost all would give a resounding “No.” The public, overall, opposes war, but tolerates leaders who prioritize...
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Crime Is Down. Why Do So Many Rural Americans Think It’s Going Up?
ven though statistics show a consistent downward trend in violent crime since the early 1990s, conservative politicians and media are trying to convince voters that America is under attack. Often these...
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BDS and Its Allies Are Exposing the Companies Fueling the Genocide in Gaza
In late September, half a dozen activists with the group Voices Against War chained themselves to turnstiles inside the lobby of Chevron’s offices in Herzliya, Israel, just north of Tel Aviv. Reading...
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The Truth Behind Israel’s War on 7 Fronts
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli...
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From Ukraine to Gaza, the Recklessness of Biden Cannot Be Ignored
President Joe Biden has called America “the world power,” and has referred to his “leadership in the world.” If Biden does indeed see himself as a, or the, world leader, then he has been disappointing...
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Justice for All: Road-Tested Strategies for Building a Bigger Movement
Most activists sense the dense web of connections linking social, economic and climate justice issues, yet stick largely to their own anchor points. It’s time to come unstuck. To make progress at a...
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In Midst of Palestinian Genocide, Late Hamas Leader Scolded for ‘Eradicating’...
The Israeli military killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip on October 17, and it didn’t take long for the usual media suspects to line up with their anti-eulogies. Reuters (10/18/24), for...
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Cautiously Comparing Trump to Hitler
Pundits commonly compare Trump to Hitler on various leftist platforms, and even within centrist media. Should we think seriously about the resemblance, or dismiss this association as media bluster?...
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Snatching Victory from Defeat: Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar’s Last Stand
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere –Emily Brontë For the millionth time, Palestinians have won the moral victory. Defiant to the very end the Hamas leader died...
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