Elizabeth Fiedler Is Uniting Labor and Environmental Leaders
Robert Bair would probably be the first to admit that his participation in a Pennsylvania House Blue-Green Caucus news conference this month may have once seemed unlikely. The president of the...
View ArticleUS Interventionists Busy in Bolivia as Political Crisis Looms
Delegates loyal to President Luis Arce dominated the 10th Congress of Bolivia’s Movement toward Socialism (MAS) Party held in El Alto in early May. They selected Grover García, chief of a governmental...
View ArticleIn Germany, Liberals Lead the Authoritarian Turn
For German weekly Der Spiegel, there’s no doubt about the real meaning of the Alternative for Germany (AfD): this far-right party is, in fact, an “Alternative against Germany.” This headline referred...
View ArticleAn Oral History of The Next American Revolution: Installment 2, First Breaths
[Author’s Note: This is the second excerpt from a work titled An Oral History of the Next American Revolution. This chapter will also provide the substance for a forthcoming RevolutionZ episode...
View ArticleWhy Chile Has a Palestinian Football Team – the Bigger History
Club Deportivo Palestino, a football team, play in a uniform of white, green and red. Their stadium flies Palestinian flags and their social sports club boasts an open-air pool in the shape of pre-1948...
View ArticleThe ANC and South Africa’s Radical Left, 30 Years After the First...
On the eve of South Africa’s May 29 general elections, Federico Fuentes spoke to veteran South African socialist Mazibuko Jara about the African National Congress’s (ANC) prospects of holding onto...
View ArticleVermin United: Biden, Trump, BlueLeaks and the Repression of Left Protests
“Dissent must never lead to disorder.” – Joe Biden, 5/2/24, Remarks on recent events on college campuses[1] “We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left...
View ArticleKhan’s Decision: A Turning Point in International Justice
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan’s request for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Hamas leaders marks a pivotal moment in international...
View ArticleHow Black Lives Became The Hidden Cost of Clean Energy
The story of “John Doe 1” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is tucked in a lawsuit filed five years ago against several U.S. tech companies, including Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle...
View ArticleAlliance Politics in East Asia: More Security or Less?
The Biden-Kishida Summit The best thing about diplomacy between government leaders is that it may ease tensions. The worst thing is that it doesn’t resolve the disputes between them, making matters...
View ArticleLitany of Failure: New Briefing Sets Out OECD’s Manifold Shortcomings in...
For over sixty years, the Organisation for Economic and Cooperation has held dominion over the stewardship of international tax negotiations. In that time, progress achieved in putting a stop to...
View ArticleSeeking Fantasies Across The Sea
A young boy, no more than sixteen, steers a battered trawler boat with an unyielding focus on the darkness ahead. Between the congestion of bodies on board, a pregnant woman passes in and out of...
View ArticleUAW Challenges Mercedes-Benz Union Vote, Demands New Election Over Alleged...
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is challenging the results of last week’s unionization vote at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, where workers voted against union representation. The UAW alleges...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Anti-Democracy Coalition
Elon Musk and entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret billionaire dinner party in Hollywood last month. Its purpose: to defeat Joe Biden and reinstall Donald Trump in the White...
View ArticleCairo Fears a ‘Boomerang Effect’: Suppressing Protests for Palestine
On Tuesday, April 23rd, protesters in Cairo were detained while participating in a peaceful demonstration in support of women in Sudan and Gaza. Ironically, this event coincided with Sinai Liberation...
View ArticleUS-Backed Canadian Mine in Guatemala Threatens Water Supply for Millions
Asunción Mita is a town of roughly 40,000 people in the hills of southeastern Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador. It’s dusty and hot in the dry season — located in the Central American dry...
View Article“We the People” Need a Government That is Creatively Unstable
Let us pray that ‘we the people” have not voted for a brute majority to any party, followed by a ‘strong’ leader at the helm. Governments born of such a combo, as we have seen repeatedly worldwide, and...
View ArticleIsrael’s Rafah Tents Massacre, Yet Another Heinous War Crime
It was one of the most heinous assaults on Palestinian civilians in recent memory. Last night, Israeli forces pounded a tent camp housing displaced people in a designated safe zone in north Rafah,...
View ArticleDebrief with May Boeve
The coming years are often referred to as our last chance to get on track to co-existing with our planet — the “decisive decade” is a term used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Many...
View ArticleThe ICC Takes on Israel and the US Congressional Mafia
Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he grilled Secretary of State Blinken at a May 21 Congressional hearing. Wagging his finger, he warned...
View ArticleTrump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn
On Sunday, Donald Trump posted video of a man raging and cursing uncontrollably at MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough outside what appears to be an airport in New York. This generated a flurry of attention on...
View ArticleTheir Past, Our Future?
What does it mean to “be on the left”? While the answer means different things to different people and can involve lengthy debate and discussion, all of which is fine, I boil it down to something very...
View ArticleOn Climate Change, Centrism Means a Slow Death
The Miami Herald recently reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest forecast predicting a record-breaking hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean. “Brace Yourself,...
View Article‘2024 is our 1994!’: A South African election travelogue
On Instagram on 18 May, a South African woman living in London posted, “this is my third election while living in the UK and I have never seen this many people in line. It feels like 1994 again....
View ArticleUS Congress Warns: If ICC Tries Israeli Officials For War Crimes, ‘America...
The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said Congress plans to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). He warned that, if the ICC prosecutes Israeli officials,...
View ArticleMass Slaughtering Civilians To Stop Terrorism
Remember kids, Israel has to bomb hospitals and starve Gaza and incinerate children and shoot people waving white flags and assassinate doctors and journalists and commit daily massacres of civilians,...
View ArticleRevealed: Israeli Spy Chief ‘Threatened’ ICC Prosecutor Over War Crimes Inquiry
The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to...
View ArticleThe BBC Is Afraid to Report the Facts About Israel’s War
This BBC journalist wrote under condition of anonymity to provide us with insight into what has been happening behind the scenes at one of the world’s most influential media organizations. Afew months...
View ArticleRepress U., Class of 2024
The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun by riot squads, state troopers, and federal...
View ArticleThe Shoah After Gaza
In 1977, a year before he killed himself, the Austrian writer Jean Améry came across press reports of the systematic torture of Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons. Arrested in Belgium in 1943 while...
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