The term ‘hypocrisy’ is the most convenient term, but certainly not the most apt to describe the inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. We must search for other terms that could possibly explain why a ...

A US judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked two federal agencies from arresting noncitizens at immigration courthouses in the San Francisco area, a ruling hailed by migrant justice advocates amid ongoing legal challenge...

Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts. Indeed, Trump has taken the lead in reducing worke...

I hold joint US/German citizenship due to the historical fact that my maternal family was stripped of their German citizenship by The Reich Citizenship act attendant to Nazi imposed Nuremberg Laws enacted in 1935. Subse...

The plan was to stand outside the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day with a large inflatable bomb. The protesters would then leaflet MPs as they arrived for Prime Minister’s Questions. But on the day, the far-right ...

Howard Zinn’s book on SNCC was written in 1964. Yet, here I am writing a review in 2025, a good 60 years later. It feels appropriate to do so. There is of course the usual wisdom about paying attention to history for it...

Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir live at the Hollywood Bowl, Sept 15, 2025, opening for Neil Young’s LOVE EARTH Tour. This was the last of 32 shows all over North America, first with Crazy Horse in 2024 and then...

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the ...

What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to control, but as an ecological and economic capital to preserve and develop? Across the country, the same paradox is em...

Paul Wines helped to kick in the door of the warehouse and heard a sound like a freight train crashing through town. A blaze fueled by leather goods and other flammable materials burst through the opening in an instant,...

The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific under the banner of ...

Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the lesson of Christmas. This context gives insight into why Jesus taught ...

When we think of Christmas today, what comes first to mind? Twinkling lights along Main Street, the ceaseless hum of commerce, the relentless parade of advertisements promising joy measured in price tags. Rarely, if eve...

This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of years of cellular and m...

One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a document titled “Twenty Theses for Liberation.” Noam didn’t agree with every word, nor did any of its co-signers...

The December 14 mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, aimed at the Jewish community during Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi Beach, stunned the world. Fifteen people were killed, including a 10-year-old child. Instead of tac...

Gary Cunningham remembers sitting at the dining room table as a boy, listening to his father relate stories about his work as a union grievance chairman. One especially resonates with him today. A woman, sexually harass...

“Welcome to the Resistance.” During the first Trump administration, socialists loved to invoke this as a joke. The liberal resistance, socialists charged, was interested only in performative displays of opposition, blam...

I am a daughter of refugees, a Southeast Asian woman, and a mom raising two girls in an increasingly hostile world. When overwhelmed, I tend to look for action—some physical thing I can do to take back some semblance of...

With less than a year before the next Teamsters general election; and less than two-and-half years since the catastrophic 2023 UPS-Teamsters agreement negotiated by Sean O’Brien was sold and ratified—the chickens have c...

US President Donald Trump has made it very clear that he is an enemy of Europe. His  administration’s recent National Security Strategy contained deranged and racist raving  about Europe facing “civilizational erasure” ...

In Italy, the bell that signals the start of the school day has recently sounded like a call to arms—not for war, but against it. While the Italian government actively supports the geopolitical machinery enabling the ge...

In a recent AI study (November 2025), slightly more than 1,000 Germans were asked about artificial intelligence (AI), online security, deepfakes and democracy. Overall, there is a strong increase in the uptake of AI in ...

Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the Israeli narrative of domination and genocide. This singular, violent visio...

The US Department of Justice on Friday released a massive—but incomplete—trove containing hundreds of thousands of records related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a move that came as Democratic lawma...

If we take a bird’s-eye view of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro—where the largest share of the Serbian people lives today—we see a strikingly similar structure: three small economies neatly integrated int...

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé (1954), author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and other prominent works, has played a crucial role in challenging the dominant Western narrative that presents Israel as a liberal democ...

“That went well! Let’s do it again soon.” My friend and I congratulated ourselves and hung up the phone.  Greg and I had been having Red-Blue conversations for a while, with spotty success. This time, we agreed to discu...

The United States is in the grip of a reading recession—nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and fewer than half read even one, according to data from YouGov and the National Endowment for the Art...

Already before Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, there were dire omens. Poultry workers reported that their supervisors were using Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric to divide workers up—allowing white workers bathr...

If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant shadow-play staged by geopolitical puppeteers—would you really be surprised? After all, the last two decades have...

I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the newly appointed Nobel Peace Prize winner, said at a press conference in Oslo, Norway, in res...

Who controls love: Men, women, or capital? At first, the question sounds absurd. Love in the modern era is supposed to be the most personal of experiences, untouched by politics or economics. Yet in the age of dating ap...

To counter the march toward militarism at home and abroad, we need a movement with a winning message and broad coalition engaged in institutional politics. Throughout U.S. history, broad citizen-led peace movements have...

On 10 December 2025, U.S. forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well, we keep [the oil],” President Trump told reporters. Venezuela’s foreign ministr...

On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by 58.16 percent to 41.84 percent. Kast ran as ...

1. The Iraqi Left Between Participation and Boycott in the 2025 Elections This article comes at a critical political and organizational moment for the Iraqi left. Recent setbacks can no longer be explained by external f...

The Palestinian struggle, which spans over a century, is fundamentally about the dispossession of land, resistance to displacement, self-determination and human rights.   The indigenous people of Palestine have paid in ...

The following is an interview with Hans-Josef Fell. Fell is the drafter of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), a law that came into force in Germany 25 years ago and has been copied over 100 times in more than 60 co...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is usually introduced to foreign readers as a “post-war success story” held together by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement — a fragile compromise that ended the bloodshed by freezing the country into...

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On December 14,1995 leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and the former Yugoslavia signed the Dayton Peace Agreement, ending a ferociou...

It is October 2025, and one room in southern Germany was in a rage. The discontent of workers over the loss of industry-wide collective bargaining had escalated at a local technology company. Workers at Avnet and Tria h...

José A. Kast’s resounding victory in the runoff election is bound to have a profound influence on Chile. A solid, neo-fascist, extreme right-wing force consolidated as a result of the convergence of two radical variants...

Given my long-term interest in international affairs, I went to see the recently released movie, “Nuremberg,” to revisit the issue of how a court of law can be used to convict those guilty of war crimes. As a result, se...

For the last month or so there have been two small flags flying prominently outside the front door of my and my wife’s house. One is an American flag, the other the Palestinian flag. In the 46 years that Jane and I have...

“Kill them all!” You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of unmanly wimp? Pete Hegseth spits in your face. Let me catch my breath, calm myself, wipe my face. The cutting edge is raw. A hundred deaths, a th...

The assassination last week of Yasser Abu Shabab — the 32-year-old leader of the Israeli-backed “Popular Forces,” a militia operating in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip — is more than a lurid gangland hit. His...

Modern Western strategic thinking still likes to present itself as the child of the Enlightenment: Rationality, progress, order, and law.  However, the practice operating in the Middle East for the past 30 years has rep...

Amid electoral polarization, the most reactionary sectors of the traditional right and the far right accuse the government of Gabriel Boric of having “robbed blatantly,” leaving the country on the brink of bankruptcy du...

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win in New York forced many political observers to think, for the first time, of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as a serious and potentially formidable force in American political life. ...