Bipartisan Lawmakers Rush to Battle Stations After Iran Attack
Members of Congress who have said little to nothing about the over 33,000 Palestinians dead amid Israeli bombs and artillery — two-thirds deemed innocent civilians — in retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas...
View ArticleIsrael Conflict Spreads to 16 Nations as Biden Admin Says There’s No War
The regional war in the Middle East now involves at least 16 different countries and includes the first strikes from Iranian territory on Israel, but the United States continues to insist that there is...
View ArticleHow Unions and Joe Biden Are Launching a New Frontier in American Manufacturing
Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years while keeping the aging equipment there operating through sheer...
View ArticleIsrael and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S....
The Israeli bombing of an Iranian consular office in Damascus on April 1 was the first salvo in a new phase of a regional conflict between the two countries. The attack, which killed several senior...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Germany
A little history will suffice to conclude that Germany has been a problem for Europe for more than a century. The greatest attacks on Europe’s peace have come from Germany. Let us not forget that NATO...
View ArticleI Stand in Blackburn
I shall be standing for election to Parliament as the member for Blackburn. This unexpected turn of events requires an honest declaration. 1) I am standing because of the Genocide in Gaza.2) I am...
View ArticleBeyond Self-Extinction
Good that defensive anti-missiles worked against Iran’s barrage. Still, two elements were more suited to the playground than to international politics: face and revenge. One side bombs the other, and...
View ArticleCalls for De-Escalation Mount as Israel Plans to ‘Exact a Price From Iran’
Since Iran on Saturday sent hundreds of drones and missiles—which were mostly shot down—toward Israel to retaliate for an Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, anti-war voices around the...
View ArticleBuilding Global Labor Solidarity: Where We Are Today (Early 2024)
Encouraged by Flora Tristan’s exhortation—greatly amplified by Marx and Engels—“Workers of the World, Unite!” (Armbruster-Sandoval, 2013), activists have been encouraging workers to build international...
View ArticlePopular Movements, Not Elections, Will Bring Transformative Change in India
With the exception of a brief period, India has been more fortunate than many other nations in being able to maintain parliamentary rule over the last 77 years. With 900 million voters—more than the...
View ArticleYanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down...
As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that...
View ArticleProject 2025: A Warning For Labor
The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such...
View ArticleSCOTUS Declines to Review First Amendment Mass Protest Rights Case
In Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review a case with significant ramifications for protest rights in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The Court’s denial of certiorari allows the anti-First...
View ArticleIran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a...
View ArticleA Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing...
View ArticleThe Sad Spectacle of Lesser-Evil Elections
One of the two major-party candidates for the presidency of the United States has allowed an decades-long ethnic cleansing to morph into a genocide, a horror that could be stopped with one phone call;...
View ArticleNo Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
View ArticleNobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for...
View ArticleRemembering one year of war in Sudan | The Take
April 15 marks one year since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its paramilitary rival the Rapid Support Forces. The war has caused the largest displacement crisis in the world...
View ArticleWhy War Is Set To Kill Everyone
Accident On several occasions, nuclear war has only been averted by someone realising – or hoping – that incoming strikes were computer errors. “The President would stop it”. Well, in 1979, 1980, and...
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