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He Doesn’t Know Whether To Run, Join It, Or Destroy It

Brazil merits our collective close attention and our active solidary participation

The new populist party captured public anger against austerity and corrupt elites more successfully than the radical left. So where next for the left as Pasokification takes hold?

Metaphors are cruel things, never easy to deploy. It will have to be said that the genius of deploying metaphors after all distinguishes a Shakespeare from an Amit Shah

More legally questionable and reckless military interventions are not what British people want from their government

Russian officials said on Friday that their government can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held enclave in Syria last week was a hoax staged by British spies. The defense and foreign ministry officials declined, however, to say what the evidence was, or expose it to public Read more…

This is chapter twenty three of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution. RPS/2044 has its own book page, with front matter, reviews, essays, interviews, testimonials and place for user interaction with the interviewees. Mayor Bill Hampton, Celia Curie, Lydia Luxemburg, Bertrand Dellinger, and Malcolm King discuss electoral participation. Bill, what have Read more…

The American bombing campaign has no standing in international law whatever. Just because one country has broken international law, it does not follow that other countries have a right to attack it

As in West Virginia and Kentucky, the fight over public funding for basic needs is inextricably linked to the politics of energy in Oklahoma

We’ve seen this Movie and it doesn’t End Well

A commission against torture in North Carolina may serve as a model for how citizen-led initiatives can create transparency and accountability for abuses of power in government

It’s a question of political will and political action

Nearly 4 People Are Evicted Every Minute

The post-Hurricane Maria recovery is seized by one overarching question: Who is Puerto Rico for: islanders or wealthy outsiders?

Whether They Like It or Not

Believe in your own capacities, believe in everybody else’s, and work in a collaborative way to change society

1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE

In the continuing teachers’ rebellion sweeping the U.S., dozens of Oklahoma teachers have completed a 7-day, 110-mile march from Tulsa to the state capital Oklahoma City. Public schools across Tulsa and Oklahoma City remain closed as thousands of teachers continue their strike for education funding into a ninth day. The strike comes as the Supreme Read more…

Asifa, my child, I wish I was not writing about you But holding you to my chest. Asifa, I wish you were watching Joyfully as I ripped apart The hyenas and hung their Entrails at the temple door, So the gods therein would  smell The stench of their complicity. What wicked deity could Give you those Read more…

Oklahoma is gearing up for changes across the state in the 2018 midterm

The Indiana State Teachers Association developed a tracking system called “Go Green” to help local leaders get membership back up

Not a soul today is mentioning the terrible war fought between 1980 and 1988, which was fought with our total acquiescence. It’s almost an ‘exclusive’ to mention the conflict at all, so religiously have we forgotten it

Trump’s Rush to Judgment on Syrian Chemical Attack

In the 2016-2017 school year, Milwaukee Public Schools suspended 10,267 students, including one of every three ninth-graders

The movement looks to rebuild the cross-racial civil rights alliance that disintegrated during a half-century of counter-revolution. Their radical vision is more necessary than ever

For more than a decade, state legislators—Democrats and Republicans alike—have marched the state off the proverbial financial cliff

The future at a crossroads in Rojava

While the US and the UK are appalled by this weekend’s attack on Syria, they have no qualms about selling billions of dollars worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia

Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat

After decades of regulatory neglect, Big Tech is finally coming under the microscope

A sober journey Into the Hospitality-Industrial Complex

President Trump’s rush to judgment on Syrian guilt is being done in a highly politicized environment

This is chapter twenty two of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution. RPS/2044 has its own book page, with front matter, reviews, essays, interviews, testimonials and place for user interaction with the interviewees. Lydia Luxemburg, Andrej Goldman, Peter Cabral, and Juliet Berkman discuss reforms, revolution, and violence. Lydia, the question of Read more…

We are practitioners and professors of international law. Under international law, military strikes by the United States of America and its allies against the Syrian Arab Republic, unless conducted in self-defense or with United Nations Security Council approval, are illegal and constitute acts of aggression. The unlawful killing of any human being without legal justification, Read more…

Those China tariffs aren’t surprising. What’s bizarre are the people praising Trump’s recklessness and reviving his political fortunes

There is no honest way to discuss the burden of the debt without also talking about the burdens created by these government-granted monopolies

For some reason, the media treats shelling out trillions on the military like it’s a simple iPhone update

Interview on how company’s profit really works

The Trump administration and the May government in the UK seem poised to launch missile strikes on Syria in the near future. It probably won’t matter

The 5th Circuit is already the most conservative circuit court in the country, and Trump is pushing it further to the right

While senators displayed a disappointing reluctance to govern on Tuesday, the disquiet over Zuckerberg’s comments suggested that the hearing represented a beginning and not an end

Demanding Safety, Not Police Bullets, for Black Women in Distress

Progressives are telling two different stories about the world we live in and the future we are trying to create. In important ways, they clash

A review of RPS 2044: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution, by Michael Albert

As thousands of Palestinians walked peacefully into the deadly ‘buffer zone’ along the Gaza border into the sights of Israeli snipers, their intention was clear: to be seen by the world as ordinary citizens, to show themselves as ordinary human beings

The Lula da Silva case blatantly shows that something is rotten in the Brazilian judicial system

Two new studies from Europe have found that the number of farm birds in France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated. The collapse in the bird population mirrors the discovery last October that over three quarters of all flying insects in Germany have vanished in just Read more…

The years between 1603 and 1714 were perhaps the most decisive in English history. At the onset of the seventeenth century, the sceptered isle was a second-class power, but the Great Britain that emerged by the beginning of the eighteenth century was, in many ways, the planet’s reigning superpower.1 It then passed the baton to Read more…

Walkouts, Protests Capture Public Support

The American Military System Dissected