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Is Trump the Greater Danger?
This episode of Oats for Breakfast Podcast interviews journalist and filmmaker Paul Jay. Paul discusses why a second Trump term would be significantly more dangerous than previous Republican...
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What was Good for the Nazis is Good for the Zionists
History offers few more stark instances of oppressed peoples copycatting the ideological predilections and political praxis of their erstwhile oppressors once they come into their own than the...
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The Long History of Palestine – Why Palestinians are Winning the Legitimacy War
Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with the Palestinians. “The Palestinians look at everything...
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This Is Not a Drill. Fascism Is on the Ballot. But . . .
The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks. Such understanding is a problem for Trump and his boosters. At the same time,...
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Male Violence-Prevention Educators Call on Men to Reject Trump’s Misogyny on...
Citing Donald Trump’s well-documented history of misogyny and sexual abuse of women—including being adjudicated as a rapist—some of the country’s leading male figures working to prevent men’s violence...
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The Plastics Industry’s Wish List for a Second Trump Administration
Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and...
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Under Project 2025, Journalists and Sources Would Face Spying and Prosecution
The last two decades have been an abysmal time for the right to press freedom in the U.S. Successive administrations — from both parties — have normalized using the Espionage Act to prosecute...
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COP29 Must Kickstart Stalled Progress on the Lifeline That is Adaptation
2024 has been another brutal year for Africa in terms of climate change. From the Horn of Africa to Mozambique, Malawi and the Congo, the continent has faced record-breaking temperatures, devastating...
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How’s Iceland’s 4-Day Work Week Working? ‘Incredibly Well,’ Study Says
Iceland’s economy grew more than all but one other rich European nation and its workers reported higher well-being, lower stress, and better work-life balance after the country reduced its standard...
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BRICS Rejects Global Climate Action
Sovereignty was the theme of this year’s BRICS Summit, the 16th annual conference of major oil producing and rapidly developing countries. BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—are now...
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Confronting the Death Drive in Trump’s America
Mass feeling is essential to political life. But following its uses by violent fascist and communist regimes of the twentieth century, liberal-democratic parties in Europe and the United States have...
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Femicide is Rising, But Where’s the Outrage?
In Kenya, Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegi was brutally murdered—doused in petrol and set on fire by her ex-boyfriend just three weeks after returning from the Paris Olympics. In Switzerland,...
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Letters From an American: A Newsletter About the History Behind Today’s...
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the...
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Billionaires Emit More Carbon Pollution in 90 Minutes than the Average Person...
The first-of-its-kind study, “Carbon Inequality Kills,” tracks the emissions from private jets, yachts and polluting investments and details how the super-rich are fueling inequality, hunger and death...
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The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
On the banks of Wounded Knee Creek, a dream died in 1890 in a brutal massacre. Today, 110 years later, on that same creek, a dream was born. That’s the work that Alex White Plume, traditional leader...
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Honolulu Nurses Weather Long Lockout and Win Staffing Ratio Language
In a malicious ploy, a hospital in Honolulu locked out its nurses after a one-day strike—and not just for a couple days, as hospitals often do, but indefinitely. The message was, you can come back only...
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Housing Activists in Spain Occupy Vacant Bank-Owned Buildings and Halt Evictions
When I first arrived in Spain, a real estate agent told me to avoid Manresa, the working-class city outside of Barcelona where a friend of mine lived. “Don’t go there, it’s not very nice,” he said. “Go...
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‘Sexual Precarity’: How Insecure Work Puts Migrants At Risk of Being Sexually...
Some of the ways migrants are exploited in the workforce get a lot of public attention. We hear tragic stories about wage theft, forced unpaid overtime, unsafe work conditions or discrimination. And we...
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The Gaza Catastrophe — Checking Israeli and Western Elites
Israel is determined to take over North Gaza. This explains its destruction of residential areas in the region. Schools and hospitals have also been targeted. People have been forced to flee their...
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Israel Bans UNRWA, Guaranteeing Further Spike in Maternal and Infant Deaths...
The Israeli parliament on Monday passed legislation declaring the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, authorized by the UN General Assembly in 1949, to be a terrorist organization. It is an...
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