Philadelphia DA Sues to Block Elon Musk’s “Illegal” $1 Million Lottery to Voters
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a lawsuit on Monday against Elon Musk and his super political action committee (PAC), alleging that their $1 million daily giveaway to registered...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide
To all those Republicans who shed crocodile tears because their feelings were so hurt that people were calling Donald Trump a fascist: Stop. To all the MAGA defenders who said it was over-the-top to...
View ArticleTrump and Musk Are a Match Leading Us to Hell
Elon Musk’s recently announced scheme to bribe voters into backing his favorite presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is a symbol of the economic worldview Republicans are promoting: one where the lines...
View ArticleSanders: “I disagree with Kamala’s Position On the War in Gaza. How Can I...
I understand that there are millions of Americans who disagree with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the terrible war in Gaza. I am one of them. While Israel had a right to defend...
View ArticleTime To Expropriate the Rich!
Review of Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They do with Their Money and Why You Should Hate Them Even More by Rob Larson (Haymarket, 2024). In Rob Larson’s new book...
View ArticleThe Slow Birth Of The New World
Four major multilateral meetings have come and gone. Together, they exposed the increasing brittleness of Western power, the fictitiousness of the “International Rules-Based Order” designed to uphold...
View ArticleWriters For A New World
The debacle around Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest book shows us that no matter a writer’s individual acclaim, the liberal media establishment will never tolerate anything that fundamentally challenges its...
View ArticleUkraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign Statement On U.S. Elections
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign Statement on 2024 U.S. Elections Millions of voters have been looking for a way to keep Trump and his MAGA horde out of the White House. They want to stop Project...
View ArticleThe Cost Of Corporate Profit In U.S. Health Care Reaches $2 Trillion
As has long been the case, the U.S. health care system is by far the world’s most expensive while providing the worst results among the world’s advanced capitalist countries. And that expense continues...
View ArticleThe Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World...
Recently, at a hostel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, I launched into a tirade about the lack of any significant social services or safety net in my home country of the United States, services that countless...
View ArticlePaulo Freire and the Enemies of Justice
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19, 2024. Freire was not...
View ArticlePennsylvania’s Undecideds
If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there’s a slightly less common corollary to that: I...
View ArticleGenocide as Colonial Erasure
“The crime of all crimes.” That is how the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda declared genocide in the final judgment of Prosecutor v. Akayesu, the case against the mayor of Taba, Rwanda for...
View ArticleProject 2025 Creators Have a Plan to ‘Dismantle’ Pro-Palestine Movement
The plan, dubbed “Project Esther,” casts pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. as members of a global conspiracy aligned with designated terrorist organizations. As part of a so-called “Hamas Support...
View ArticleHow Can Movements Advance Palestinian Rights This Election — And Beyond?
For the first time, those seeking change in U.S. policy toward Israel-Palestine have real leverage. Wielding it effectively requires both moral and strategic considerations. This is a crucial...
View ArticleDoes Israel Have the Right to Defend Itself?
“Israel has the right to defend itself,” President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and countless commentators have declared multiple times over the past year. But does Israel in fact have...
View ArticleArizonan Palestinians On Voting For Kamala And The Election Aftermath
Original Statement available here Three days ago I received a copy of an article titled “Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats and Community Leaders Statement on Presidential...
View ArticleConsolidation Threatens to Rip ‘Service’ Out of Postal Service
Workers are battling an overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service that would cost thousands of jobs and slow the mail for half the country. In the name of efficiency, a letter mailed within Cheyenne,...
View ArticleMontana’s First Worker Cooperative Is in It for the Long Haul
Worker cooperatives—businesses owned and democratically managed by their employees—have shown high rates of economic stability, employee retention, and productivity. A 2019 report from the Democracy at...
View ArticleThe U.S. Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
No country is immune from water scarcity issues—not even wealthy countries like the United States. Population growth and climate change are stretching America’s water supplies to the limit, and tapping...
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