The Georgia Election Was Just as Much About the Economy
Indignant western armchair pundits and politicians have fallen into collective rage, signaling that the general election result in Georgia equated to the theft of a European choice. The opposition to...
View ArticleThe Potential Benefits of Direct Democracy and Voting for Policies, Not...
On Jan. 20, 2009, the United States of America inaugurated its first Black president, Barack Obama. In November, the U.S. may elect its second. Does this mean anything? One reason to think so, as New...
View ArticleDoes a Trump Win Mean Fascism? The Socialist View
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump appear to be neck and neck in the presidential election, bringing the possibility of a second Trump term closer to reality. But would a Trump victory really bring the end...
View ArticleWhy Is the Election Between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris So Close?
In the days and weeks before Americans vote for their next president, Donald Trump has reached deep inside the gutter for his latest stump speech material. He spent much of September insisting that...
View ArticleThe Black Case Against Donald Trump
Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people in the modern era, if not the nation’s history. Given a life of unremitting racial animus, under no circumstances should he receive a single vote...
View Article‘Gaza Is Ours, Forever’ — Israel’s Extremists Have a Plan for the Day After...
Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza border region, on October 20-21. The group...
View ArticleA No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters
On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s basically our...
View ArticleThe Crisis of the Neoliberal University and the Need for a Working Class...
This past year in the U.S., a new chapter in class struggle has been written. Students, many from the Palestinian diaspora, anti-Zionist Jewish people, leftists, and people of conscience of all stripes...
View ArticleDoing Time for Palestine
Almost a year ago a photograph of two figures standing on a rooftop of a building in Merrimack, New Hampshire, attracted interest in the social-media sphere attentive to the Palestine-Israel conflict....
View Article5 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...
View ArticleBanning UNRWA Is A New Way To Kill Children, Aid Groups Warn
Palestinian human rights groups say that new Israeli legislation banning a UN agency from providing services to Palestinians under occupation “aligns with a broader pattern of Israel’s genocidal...
View ArticleThis Activist Group Chat Has Been Blocking A Weapons Shipment To Israel For...
For a few hours between Oct. 17-18, a cargo ship called the MV Kathrin had “gone rogue” just outside of Malta’s territorial waters. To “go rogue,” in shipping terms, is to be without a flag — and in...
View ArticleBuilding a Government That Answers To People, Not Profit
It’s October, and it’s election season. Which means that in my neighborhood – and probably yours too – political flyers are everywhere. Glossy, full-color, and expensive. On every porch. Littered...
View ArticleThe Real Rwanda
On the global stage, Rwanda is the poster child for African development, celebrated for its post-genocide recovery and lauded as a beacon of economic success. The seemingly stable nation has won the...
View ArticleMorning Joe: Dems’ Favorite Show, Blatant Pro-Israel Propaganda
More than half a year into Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was reflecting on the campus protests against the US-backed war that had multiplied across the country — ones...
View ArticleThe United Nations: Problems by Design, Reform by Demand
Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied, Richard Falk, and former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and UN...
View Article“Little Secret”? Elie Mystal on Trump’s Likely Plan to Steal Election with...
With just days to go before the November 5 presidential election, fears are growing that Republicans intend to interfere with the official results in order to install Donald Trump as president. At...
View ArticleKeir Starmer Will Always Side With Capital Against Workers
When Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won office in July of this year, there was precious little in the party manifesto that offered hope that things were going to get better. Two promises that stood out...
View ArticleMohammad Saba’aneh: Art Is Not Resistance. Art Is A Tool To Survive.
As he received Sweden’s EWK Award of 2024 Mohammad Saba’aneh said that the prize was not for him, but for all Palestinians. A guest of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in England, he...
View ArticleFukushima: Stumbling Through Deconstruction of Reactor Meltdowns
Melted fuel still vexing test extraction methods Thirteen years on from the catastrophic triple explosions and reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in NE Japan, emergency responders are still trying...
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