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Haiti’s Disintegration and US Foreign Policy
We may be seeing an uptick in news on Haiti in the American mainstream media in the coming months. We may even hear calls for US military intervention in the country. Haiti seems to be literally...
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The Rich: On Top of the World and Very Anxious About It
Earlier this month, a columnist for the right-wing UK Telegraph penned an op-ed entitled “Gen Z are an employer’s nightmare – my twenties put them to shame.” On its face, the article itself is quite...
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Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide
As Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ,...
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Daimler Truck Workers Are Strike-Ready in the Anti-Union South
Autoworkers in the South are currently engaged in a historic, high-stakes labor struggle against the multinational corporation Daimler Truck North America (DTNA). The labor contract between DTNA and...
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Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, Baits Iran Into His...
Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on the thinly populated Negev Desert (where it was mainly Palestinian Bedouin...
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The Library Is a Commons
The Montana State Library Commission voted 5-1 (with one abstention) in July to rescind its membership in the American Library Association because of the ALA’s sitting president: a self-proclaimed...
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The Power of Finance Is Inherent to Capitalism
Much of the Left sees finance as being parasitic on industry. Financialization, in this view, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state, hollowing out the “real” economy, and hastening the...
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We Need an Alternative to Nuclear-Armed Nationalism
An enormous flash, a mushroom cloud, multi-thousands of human beings dead. We win! Nuclear weapons won’t go away, the cynics—the souls in despair—tell us. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle....
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Returning to Draconian Abortion Bans Doesn’t Make America Great
“When exactly was America great?” is a common question often asked of Donald Trump loyalists sporting MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats. The Republican-dominated Arizona Supreme Court has an answer:...
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Kidnapping of Jorge Glas: US-Backed Oligarchy in Ecuador Locks Up Its Critics
Mexico has cut all diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Ecuadorian police officers forcibly raided the Mexican Embassy in Quito and detained former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas. Glas had been...
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Ecuador is Not For Sale
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in Ecuador are exposing the truth. The...
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Limits of Green Capitalism
Despite the rather common neoliberal hallucination of eternal growth, the Club of Rome’s seminal study “Limits to Growth” (1972), showed that the catechism-like faith into endless growth, fabricated by...
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Is Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from...
The Middle East is bracing for the possibility of regional war after Iran responded to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus with a major drone and missile attack Saturday. The attack...
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Interview With Asad Abukhalil on Gaza, Hezbollah and the Decline of Zionism
Joining me on today’s program, Professor Asad Abukhalil grew up and studied political science in Beirut and later received his Doctorate in the United States. He’s taught at multiple US universities...
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‘A Massive Win for All Generations’: European Human Rights Court Rules...
Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. In a...
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The Oil Crash Is Coming Sooner Than We Think
Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction...
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The Country That Tried To Control Sex
When the cultural historian Clair Wills was in graduate school at Oxford in the late 1980s, she became pregnant by accident. She was 25 and single, with little money and no job. Still, she decided to...
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Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission
Several nonprofit organizations filed a petition this month asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to rule on the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known to...
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Take That, Joe Manchin
“We are a married couple of 45 years. We are taking action together as elders deeply concerned about the future facing our 3-year-old grandson, all children, and all life on earth. That is why we have...
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How Are US Tax Dollars Being Spent? Hint: The Pentagon Is Cashing In.
Every year at tax time, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies releases a tax receipt to show where your federal income tax dollars go. Every year, militarism in all its...
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