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Trump Is Planning a Third Red Scare
This election season has been a tumultuous and widely debated one for the Left, on both moral and strategic terms. But strangely absent from these discussions have been the explicit promises and...
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Despite History of Fabrication, Press Uncritically Covers IDF-Provided...
Earlier this month, the New York Times (10/12/24), Washington Post (10/12/24) and Wall Street Journal (10/12/24) each published front-page articles based on different sets of documents handed to them...
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Deaths in Sudan’s Civil War are Estimated at 62,000, but the Real Toll may be...
The ongoing war in Sudan has often been overlooked amid higher-profile conflicts raging across multiple continents. Yet the lack of media and geopolitical attention to this 18-month-long conflict has...
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The Challenge and Reality of the Green Energy Transition: A Reply to Wetzel...
In their recent article, Tom Wetzel and Steve Ongerth reply to the “recent polemic against renewable energy” by Peter Gelderloos. While the critique of Gelderloos is valid, Wetzel and Ongerth have also...
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In Fencing China Out, Is Washington Fencing Itself In?
As Washington doubles down on its semiconductor embargoes, a troubling paradox emerges: in trying to stymie China’s technological advances, the United States might just be fencing itself in. Each...
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Lest We Forget: The Destruction Of Gaza And What Followed Did Not Start On...
An incendiary war has been raging for more than a year in the Middle East. It has been indescribably devastating on Gaza and has now extended to the West Bank, to northern Israel and Lebanon, with...
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Unanimous Rejection of U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Cuba
On October 30, 2024, at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, and for the 32nd consecutive year, 187 countries demanded the lifting of unilateral U.S. economic sanctions that have...
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Answering Critics
I have gotten feedback on what I have been doing. Questions. Criticisms. Anger. Even outrage. So perhaps it will be useful and even help my case for stopping Trump to offer some clarifications. First,...
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Exterminate, Expel, Resettle: Israel’s Endgame In Northern Gaza
Look at these two photos, which were both taken on Oct. 21, 2024. On the right, we see a long line of displaced people — or, more accurately, women and children — in the ruins of Jabalia refugee camp,...
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Billionaires Who Aim to “Disrupt” Education May Get a Chance Even If Trump Loses
If reelected U.S. president, Donald Trump, echoing other Republicans, has said he would shut down the Department of Education. All signs point toward a second Trump term expanding school privatization...
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The Puerto Rican Right Is Rallying Against a Rising Left
November 5 will see elections not just in the United States but in Puerto Rico, the island that has been a colony of the United States for 126 years. Throughout much of the twentieth century,...
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Calling Trump a Nazi Is Giving Our Own History a Pass. The Racism of MAGA Is...
Former President Donald Trump and his campaign threw an event at Madison Square Garden over the weekend with tens of thousands of attendees. What we heard from the speakers about Black people, Latinos,...
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Why I Regret My Antiwar Protest Vote in 1968
In 1968, I was a full-time anti-Vietnam War organizer and voted for a third-party candidate. I now regret that protest vote, which has led me to think differently this time around. I certainly...
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Israel’s War on Journalism
There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare...
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If We Ever Needed a Voice and a Vote, We Sure Do Need Them Now
Delivered Sunday, October 23, 2024, at the Riverside Church in New York City. We are in more than a serious time. What I want to talk about this morning is: “If we ever needed a coice and a vote, we...
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The BRICS Summit Should Mark the End of Neocon Delusions
The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its...
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It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Ditch Cowardice and Bravely Change Course
Over the years, the Democratic Party’s blunders, arrogance and dependence on commercial campaign money and corporate-conflicted political/media consultants have put the two-party duopoly races for the...
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November 2024: A Swing States Déjà vu Election?
With the November 2024 election now just days away, the political marketing passing as political polling is intensifying. If one were to believe the in-house CNN or Bloomberg polls, Harris is leading....
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“Too Much Evidence” Of Genocide
South Africa’s legal team has submitted hundreds of documents containing what it calls “undeniable evidence” as part of its ongoing genocide case against the state of Israel, with the South African...
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Decision 2024: Neoliberal Fascism or Neoliberal Business as Usual?
With just a few days left until Election Day, the fact that the race to the White House between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains extremely tight is truly...
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