Darién Gap: The Where of Migration Crisis Coverage, Without the Why
In February, far-right political activist Laura Loomer—the self-defined “white advocate” and “proud Islamophobe” whom Donald Trump has praised as a “terrific” person and “very special”—descended on...
View ArticleAs We Wait For National Legislation, Let’s Launch A Green New Deal From Below
As Trump and Trumpism devastate the American political landscape, how can people counter this destructive juggernaut? For the past five years, I have been studying how people are actually implementing...
View Article“A Great Swindle”: Activists Slam Draft Climate Plan Reducing How Much Rich...
Broadcasting from Baku, Azerbaijan, on the final official day of this year’s finance-themed United Nations climate summit, we look at how climate justice activists are outraged at how little money is...
View ArticleLeila Farsakh: Everybody Is Aware That The Two-State-Solution Is Dead
Leila Farsakh is professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts and the author of the pioneering work Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation that...
View ArticleIn Times Of Crisis We Need More People Power — Mass Trainings Are The Key
Social movements often face a contradiction: To expand and thrive, they need to bring in ever-greater numbers of new participants. And yet, knowing how to effectively absorb new people and plug them...
View ArticleWhy the IRA Didn’t Help Democrats
Last June I drove to Homer City, Pennsylvania, to talk to Aric Baker, the head of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 459. The Homer City Generating Station, Pennsylvania’s largest...
View ArticleCan Earth Support a Human Future? Maybe, If the Rich Consume Less.
The latest study by renowned Dutch climate scientist Klaus Hubacek and his team offers an eye-opening look at the 1 percent’s extravagant consumer behaviors that — in combination with rampant...
View ArticleChris Hedges Report: To Kill a People
This is the keynote talk I gave on Nov. 1 at the conference, The End of Empire, at University of California Santa Barbara. The conference was organized by Professor Butch Ware, who is also the Green...
View ArticleMusk and Ramaswamy’s Doge: Mass Firings, Deregulation, and the Erosion of...
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has unveiled an ambitious blueprint to overhaul federal operations through...
View ArticleHere’s What Was – And Wasn’t – Achieved at COP29
The petroleum-laden dust has settled on this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP29, held over the past fortnight in Baku, Azerbaijan. Climate scientists, leaders, lobbyists and delegates are...
View ArticleWith Israel Annexing Northern Gaza, Will Biden Finally Take Action?
As U.S. voters cast their ballots on November 5, an Israeli Brigadier General told the press that Palestinians forcibly transferred out of northern Gaza would not be allowed to return. This admission...
View ArticleThe ICC Warrants and the World They Announce
LONDON—There is an old, often-told story about a front-page article one of the big dailies here once ran as severe weather hit in these parts. “Storm in Channel, Continent Cut Off,” the headline read....
View ArticleThe View From Mount Trump
Let’s look at the political scene from Trump’s viewpoint. Sitting in his luxurious Mar-a-Lago palace receiving the daily obeisant supplicants eager to heed his every word and praise exuberantly his...
View ArticleWhat Ails America – and How to Fix It
America is a country of undoubted vast strengths—technological, economic, and cultural—yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens and the world. Trump’s victory is very easy to...
View ArticleWill Trump’s Return Coincide With the Death of Progressive Media?
Have you heard that Comcast is planning to sell MSNBC? Is Rupert Murdoch planning to buy it? Will America’s media landscape soon resemble those of Hungary and Russia? Without the rightwing media...
View ArticleNo! We Did Not Survive the First Term
As a seemingly comforting phrase for those struggling with the results of the recent U.S. presidential election, I’ve heard variants of “It’s okay, we survived the first term.” While this may be a...
View ArticleAustralian Construction Workers Are Fighting Back
Three months ago, Australia’s Labor government rushed extraordinary legislation through Parliament to force one of the nation’s largest trade unions, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees...
View ArticleLifting from the Bottom
“If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration...
View ArticleThe Counter-Revolutionaries in Charge
The revolution may not be televised, but the counter-revolution sure will be. In this new political era, the dominant military power in the capitalist world-system is ruled by a Venn Diagram of...
View ArticleInside Project Esther, the Right Wing Action Plan to Take Down the Palestine...
The Heritage Foundation got a lot of publicity during this election cycle for its infamous Project 2025. But that’s not the only project they intend to carry out now that Donald Trump is returning to...
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