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Ideally “Our Revolution” would emerge from well organized neighborhoods and workplaces proposing wonderful structure and program
Complex global challenges require committed activists who stand on principle as well as experts on the inside who can play the political game
The nonviolent anti-occupation campaign can never threaten Israel; it can only improve it
Coverage of the breakdown of the partial ceasefire in Syria illustrated the main way corporate news media distort public understanding of a major foreign policy story. The problem is not that the key events in the story are entirely unreported, but that they were downplayed and quickly forgotten in the media’s embrace of themes with Read more…
On the mat, Rafaela Silva won for her marginalized favela. In the streets, activists are winning the right to protest
For Israel, Palestinian factionalism is a central piece in its strategy to divide and rule. Sadly, many Palestinians are playing along, and by doing so are jeopardizing their own salvation
Bombings aren’t as targeted (or as effective) as the American government would have you believe
Deaths like that of Darius Robinson at the hands of prison guards underlie the lethal risk faced by those who are incarcerated
We all need to play it a little cool, because in this climate we really are edging toward violence
Complex global challenges require committed activists who stand on principle as well as experts on the inside who can play the political game
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave his first major economic address on Monday. Most of the speech was devoted to putting forward a more or less standard set of Republican policies — Trump promised large tax cuts that would primarily benefit higher-income taxpayers, ending the Affordable Care Act and curtailing government regulation. But he also Read more…
Isis has broken down the precious wall which separates childhood from adulthood, innocence from guilt. This, far more than mass murder, is its final dark achievement
Golden rice is a false miracle. It is a disease of nutritionally empty monocultures offered as a cure for nutritional deficiency. In fact, golden rice, if successful, will be 400% less efficient in providing Vitamin A… Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, died on September 9, 2009. Alfred G. Gilman died on December 23, Read more…
Sanders’ statement is strong and unequivocal. Perhaps most significant is his call for the U.S. Government to “demand that this dispute be settled with democratic elections”
This week, Donald Trump lowered the bar even further by attacking the Muslim parents of US Army Captain Humayan Khan, who was killed in 2004 by a suicide bomber while he was trying to save the lives of the men in his unit. This stunt was just the latest example of his chillingly successful media Read more…
Not long ago, it was Hillary Clinton who wanted to press the “reset” button with Putin. Now it’s Erdogan – with, one suspects, a lot more effect
With such knowledge solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity becomes almost a psychological inevitability and an even more urgent moral imperative
The murder of Alton Sterling attacked the idea that public space and culture should belong to those who produce them
In Brooklyn, a new study shows that women face an underground labor market fraught with hidden risks
Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the highest percentage in the nation (though Texas generates more than twice as many megawatts from wind). But you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Some Iowa planners think that in only 14 years Iowa will be able to power its entire grid with wind and have some Read more…
The defense of national sovereignty, like its critique, leads to serious misunderstandings once one detaches it from the social class content of the strategy in which it is embedded. The leading social bloc in capitalist societies always conceives sovereignty as a necessary instrument for the promotion of its own interests based on both capitalist exploitation Read more…
How Billions of Words, Tweets, Insults, and Polls Blot Out Reality in Campaign 2016
It’s not everyday that a guerrilla movement hosts an alternative art festival, but that’s exactly what just happened in southern Mexican city of San Cristobal, in the state of Chiapas. From July 23 to 30, over a thousand artists from 45 countries flocked to the city’s outskirts to participate in CompArte for Humanity, a festival Read more…
The objective of the manoeuvre was to head off US-Russian military cooperation against the jihadist group
It’s not only China vs. the US in the South China Sea. Few in the West realize that two completely different, intersecting stories are developing in maritime and mainland Southeast Asia. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague denied China’s historic rights to waters in the South China Sea within its nine-dash line; it Read more…
Date on which a federal appeals court panel struck down North Carolina’s restrictive new voting law, finding that provisions ranging from photo ID requirements to rollbacks of early voting deliberately “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision”: 7/29/2016 Rank of the North Carolina law among the biggest rollbacks of voting rights since the 1965 Voting Rights Read more…
Never did we talk about Marxism or socialism nor left or right. We presented ourselves as the Bolivarian movement
The makeup of the elite donor class and the sheer amount of money required to be a candidate create a barrier to access
Going forward and continuing the struggle is what matters. And, in that struggle, the most immediate task we face is to defeat Donald Trump