It’s Happening Again!
“It is happening again.” This morning, with Donald Trump in command of another crushing presidential victory, the dreadful words from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks sit like lead inside many stomachs. As the...
View ArticleElection Analysis – What Happens, Why, What Next?
We are all grieving for the fate of our country and the world. We need to take time to deal with those feels, surround ourselves with people with love, and do things that bring us joy – music, cooking,...
View ArticleTechnology Can Be Used to Automate Fascism or to Revolt Against It. Fight for...
Fight for the Future is a fiercely nonpartisan organization. We unapologetically hold politicians to account and fight oppressive policies no matter which party they emerge from. But we’re also not...
View ArticleThe Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas
We have laws to ensure children are born into a safe, sustainable, and unpolluted environment. These laws are also meant to empower future generations and guarantee birth equity. But far from ensuring...
View ArticleMozambique on the Brink: Post-Election Crisis and Youth-Led Uprising for Change
Mozambique is at a critical juncture, with post-election discontent revealing deep-rooted flaws in its political system. What began as a challenge to the ruling party, Frelimo, following the recent...
View ArticleWhy African Stream Was Deplatformed
Ahmed Kaballo, CEO of African Stream, speaks to Geeska about why his organisation was de-platformed, the importance of anti-imperialist voices in African media, and why independent and dissident...
View ArticlePalestine Was a Top Concern for Many Voters — Harris Refused to Listen to Them
Israel’s right-wing regime is gleeful about Donald Trump’s impending return to power in the United States. Various Israeli officials have hailed Trump’s victory since Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin...
View ArticleDon’t Despair, Organize
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Paul Jay analyze Trump’s 2024 victory, attributing Harris’s failure in part to a campaign that avoided progressive policies that would lower the cost of living – to please...
View ArticleNeoliberal Fascism Is Now the Dominant Ideology in the United States of America
It’s official. Neoliberal fascism has become mainstream in the United States. This is the only rational conclusion that one can draw from Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 election. Indeed, Trump’s...
View ArticleWhat Happened, What’s Next
What Happened? Got Up, got out of bed. Why? To start the next round. Why? Because the fight is not over. Trump won a very big battle. Yes, he did. No denying it. Sickening. But it wasn’t because he is...
View ArticleLocalizing the Conflict—“The Fight Against Genocide Is in Our Own Backyards”
Part one of this story is here. Paige Belanger stood with a megaphone on the bed of a white pickup truck outside the town hall in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, at a Palestine-solidarity rally on...
View ArticleThe Fault Is in Ourselves: The Arabs and Their Leaders
The question often asked but rarely explored or answered is why the Arab Middle East has remained quiet and on the sidelines as their fellow Arabs in Palestine and Lebanon are being slaughtered....
View ArticleCOP 532
Who, like me, witnessed the birth of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992 and has followed its performance over the last thirty years, as reflected in the successive COPs...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Elections Show Upswing of Popular and Independence Movements
The special significance of elections taking place in Puerto Rico on November 5 was evident beforehand. A commentator detected from opinion polls that, “This election already is historic. It already...
View ArticleFor a Glimpse of How Trump Would Implement Project 2025, Look to Argentina
As the world absorbs the shockwave of Donald Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election, the playbook for his second term, designed by a handful of right-wing extremists, is already underway in...
View Article“Open Celebration of the Oligarchy”: Both Dems & GOP Sucked Up to...
In the wake of the reelection of Donald Trump, some of the richest people in the world saw their net worths soar as stock prices rapidly shot up. “What was different about this election was how central...
View ArticleNo Time To Play Just Defense
With Donald Trump about to re-enter the White House and his sidekicks about to assume control over Congress, America’s progressives are once again shifting — to playing defense. But the best defense,...
View ArticleThe Other Great Depression
In English, ‘to gaslight’ is a transitive verb. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as the ‘psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim...
View ArticleAfter Trump’s Victory, Palestinians Cannot Afford To Wait Until The Next US...
In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, I exchanged daily voice messages with a close relative in Lebanon who had fled her home soon after the Israeli army began leveling...
View ArticleBoeing Machinists End 53-Day Strike with 38 Percent Raise
Striking Boeing Machinists will start returning to work tomorrow after voting for a new contract with substantial wage increases. The 33,000 Seattle-area Machinists voted 59 percent to accept, just two...
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