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With the New Cold War heating up, and American citizens under siege at home, it’s no small wonder that a Russian named Berlin can still claim to...
The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president,...
“If you believe in normalizing hatred towards any ethnic group, towards whites, towards blacks, towards Hispanics, towards Jews, towards Indians,...
As Americans gather next Monday to celebrate the legacy of the great martyred civil rights and social justice leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in...
According to the latest figures released by the Gaza Ministry of Health (GMoH) on December 23rd 2025, Israel had killed at least 70,937...
It's revolting, but hardly surprising, that a woman (Kristi Noem) who thought bragging about the time she shot her puppy in the head for disobeying...
United States presidents are not known for telling the truth. From Thomas Jefferson’s denial of a relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings...
Andrew Jackson led armed forces into what is now Alabama on a homicidal mission against Creek Indians. Refusing to discriminate between the armed...
There is an exact and troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s...
Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly...
The lack of market reaction to the news that Trump ordered his Justice Department to investigate criminal charges against Fed Chair Jerome Powell...
I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write to “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note...
On May 4, 1970, following Republican President Richard Nixon’s April 1970, announcement of the expansion of the Viet Nam War into Cambodia, the...
An undated photograph from Epstein’s estate. Class conflict in America has been primarily framed either in economic terms favored by the left or in...
Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted...
A quick headline roundup from the last couple of weeks: “US Electric Grid Heading Toward ‘Crisis’ Thanks to AI Data Centers” (Common Dreams,...
The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex...
Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don’t bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we’re doing nothing less than cooking...
If President Donald Trump cares in the slightest about Iranian protestors — and our country — he must not attack or threaten to attack Iran. Doing...
For years, I’ve asked my students a difficult question: What do we owe people who can no longer fight back? What would you do for a wounded soldier...
Is the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”? To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There...
Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and...
On January 3, 2026, the United States did not merely bomb a sovereign country and capture its president. It displayed, in the most unambiguous...
There are no in-house critics in Trump’s second term (2025-2029), which may be more apocalyptic, leading to the derogation of America’s democracy...
This past November, the United Nations annual Emissions Gap Report found modest progress in the fight against global warming over the past year....
The imperialist U.S. state stops at nothing; anything goes. Really? After victory in World War II and with U.S. manufacturing in high gear, the...
There is a psychology at the root of what we are seeing behind the behavior MAGA fascists and far-right media these past few weeks that isn’t being...
Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran, released a video in Farsi last week calling on Iranians to go outside on Thursday and Friday evenings at...
Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite that has...
Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs.[1] I awoke on the Friday morning of March 11, 2011, to a...
Conventional wisdom tells us that the primary motivation of Trump's Venezuelan operation was to secure American access or control over the nation’s...
“Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You...
In a Truth Social post, US president Donald Trump says he’s “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-...
It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the...
President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the legal bedrock for...
Every movement needs researchers and writers who present technical matters in ways that activists and organizers can understand and apply. Michael...
The patterns of genocide, or the various ways humans go about killing large groups of other humans and their attempted justifications for doing so,...
Donald Trump is now apparently planning to request a $600 billion increase in annual military spending starting in October, financed by another...
“Tom, I got nothin’.” That’s all I wanted to say to Tom Engelhardt, the kindly and incisive editor of TomDispatch.com. He’d called to check...
In the aftermath of President Trump’s deadly military attack on Venezuela and his abduction and rendition of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro...
The staggering cowardliness by four ex-Presidents vis-à-vis Tyrant Trump’s wrecking of America cannot escape history’s verdict. However, there is...
CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans call on TikTokers across the world to flood the platform for Palestine to #TakeBackTikTok from...
During the current uprising in Iran, the perspectives of labour activists should have been central. Instead, because they ran against the dominant...
In an article last week, I argued that Jeffrey Epstein was not a lone rogue predator. This week, I turn to the more troubling question: how did...
Royal commissions are often held to confirm the obvious and squeak for modest change. They offer no binding remedies, have no compellable powers...
Current developments in Venezuela may appear to be unfathomable—until one recalls the long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and...
The New York Times' one-sided support for Israel began with Israeli independence in 1948. Last week’s front-page piece on Israel and New York...
The “polluter pays” principle is a cornerstone of environmental regulation. It raises billions of dollars each year and has been fundamental in...
James Bernard, one of the co-founders of The Source magazine and a man who helped legitimize hip-hop to the world, has died. This loss hit those of...
There are many of us who recognize this word, "bitch," and the hot, scorching punch of it in this kind of context. After the shots are fired in the...