China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
Over the past year, analysts and writers in the mainstream press as well as in some left-wing media have argued that China has upended its relationship with Israel in its defense of Palestine in the...
View ArticleUS Arms Used in Illegal Israeli Strike on Lebanese Journalists
An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleU.S. Contributions to the Green Climate Fund Vs. Foreign Military Financing
The Need to Scale-Up International Climate Finance The world is rapidly approaching the limits of acceptable warming set by the international community. With emissions on the rise, we are at risk of...
View ArticleResistance to the International Criminal Court by the World’s Most Powerful...
The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes in...
View Article‘Frontlines of a Crisis We Did Not Create’: Low-Lying Nations Make Climate...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard arguments Monday in the largest climate case ever brought before it as a coalition of low-lying and developing nations demanded larger polluting nations...
View ArticleNo, The Fight For the Climate Isn’t “Over”
The struggle against climate change is over” if Donald Trump wins again, tweeted Bernie Sanders before Election Day 2024. Presumably our fate is now sealed. The conclusion is understandable. On our...
View ArticleApathy, Not War Fatigue in Ukraine. Most People No Longer Expect Anything.
Yuriy Samoilov is an Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NPGU) leader in Kryvyi Rih and an activist with the Ukrainian left-wing organisation Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement). In this...
View ArticleEconomic Inequality Is Even Worse Than You Think
Thanks in part to movements like Occupy and Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns, it’s no secret that the United States, and the world, are grossly unequal in wealth and income. But many people may...
View ArticleHow Can U.S. and Mexican Workers Build Cross-Border Solidarity?
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1993, the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have become increasingly integrated. Workers in all three countries have suffered...
View ArticleGilded Giving 2024: Saving Philanthropy from Wall Street
Philanthropy in America — the transfer of wealth out of private hands, ostensibly to non-profit organizations working for public benefit — is being captured by Wall Street’s wealth defense industry....
View ArticleEx-Israeli Defense Chief: Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing
Moshe Ya’alon, a former Israeli defense minister and army chief, has caused an uproar in Israel by publicly accusing the Israeli government of ethnically cleansing Palestinians in Gaza. Twenty-four...
View ArticleBuilding Power Through Mutual Aid: Lessons From the Field
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in early 2020, millions of Americans across the country were suddenly out of work and unable to afford food, rent, and other basic needs — and few...
View ArticleWhat Happens When a Nonprofit Must Close Its Doors?
Our idea was simple if a little unorthodox for the development world: Let communities choose their path and we follow. It was designed to be an antidote to the colonialist structures that run rampant...
View ArticleA Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware
We look at the world of high-tech surveillance with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and filmmaker Matthew O’Neill. Their new HBO documentary Surveilled is now available for streaming....
View ArticleSouth Korea’s 6-Hour Martial Law
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared martial law, suspended the South Korean legislature and banned elected representatives from accessing the National Assembly building using...
View ArticleIn Ukraine, the Desire to Sacrifice Oneself for the State Is Weak
Volodymyr Ishchenko is a Ukrainian sociologist who was politically active and took part in several left-wing initiatives in Ukraine before moving to Germany in 2019. Ishchenko currently works at the...
View ArticleHip-Hop and Revolution in Sudan
The State is afraid of the Pen, While we’re here challenging death Flippter The streets of Khartoum in December 2018 were not just crowded—they were buzzing with life. Voices rang out in defiance,...
View ArticleHunter Biden Was Pardoned Because Laws Are for Little People
A bit less than six months ago, former CNN White House correspondent John Harwood wrote that “people who insist [Joe] Biden will pardon” his son Hunter Biden “after specifically ruling it out are...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Joe Biden to Pardon Leonard Peltier
President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter, in the face of strong opposition from the MAGA Right and even Democratic members of Congress. Well, now is the time for Biden to do the right thing and...
View ArticleTrump Is Using “Unitary Executive” Theory in His Bid to Amass Supreme Power
In the weeks since the presidential election, president-elect Donald Trump and his allies have made a series of moves that indicate their intent to dangerously consolidate executive power under the...
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