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Please Help ZNet           This interview with world-renowned scholar and leading dissident Noam Chomsky has two goals. The primary goal is to understand America’s role in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 21st century, the Syrian civil war. While there has been a lot of commentary on the Syrian civil Read more…

Interview on a descent into nuclear war hell

The racism that permeated the age of criminalization now lurks throughout the phase of decriminalization

Squandering our national moment of opportunity at capitalism’s casino

The American labor market is characterized by high levels of employer power

Progressive Populists need to understand the current struggle as a long-term battle over whose interests the Democratic party and the broader U.S. political system serve

Please Help ZNet           I am an academic, with publications in peer-reviewed journals and a terminal degree. And today I want to make what many certified smart people would regard as an anti-intellectual argument in one specific area. I abhor the emotional and social corrosive effects of many aspects of “wokeness” Read more…

Censorship is an ineffective solution that only complicates the threats posed by fake news

The Working Class Will Have to Organize Itself

Members of the PI Council gather in Greece to call for “support for victims of war and a new Non-Aligned Movement.”

Youth, especially youth of color, are not only viewed as a liability, much of their behavior is also being increasingly criminalized

Alito’s draft opinion is full of specious legal and historical language — but it’s just religious doctrine in drag

“The only way out,” said one climate scientist, is to “fight side by side and to strip power away from the rich corporatists who are leading us deeper into catastrophe, even as their own homes burn.”

In the last seven years, the trends we identified in the book of promoting military and security solutions to the climate crisis have sadly become more entrenched

“It is time for the U.S. to commit to no new offshore oil and gas leasing and to invest in the clean energy future that we—and our planet—need.”

During 20 years of reporting on the conflict, I learned first-hand that Israel’s version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted

Did the Long Pandemic Spawn a New Kind of Repression?

The tragic, illegal war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine should end now, with a ceasefire and then a comprehensive peace agreement

After the USSR’s breakup, the OSCE knew that the large number of Russian speakers in Ukraine would become an issue

The out-of-stock rate began to rise in July, eventually reaching 31 percent

“It’s really important to Israel that nobody see what’s going on in the Occupied Territories.”

Please Help ZNet           Source: Extinction Rebellion Introduction Dear rebels, Winter has retreated from the Northern hemisphere, and seeds of rebellion have been sprouting in some of its largest and most iconic cities. Last month saw three sustained campaigns of direct action launch across London, New York, and Paris in quick Read more…

And holding back the contemporary U.S. Left

We should honestly assess our failures — and then build a movement that ties together labor, feminists, and health care organizing

The legalization of abortion, had dramatic effects on the ages at which and the circumstances under which women became mothers

Defense contractors like General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin hide behind a veneer of serving the U.S. government, but ultimately only care about selling weapons and making profits

The Defense Department promised a memo on mitigating U.S.-inflicted civilian harm in April. With the deadline passed, Congress members call for an ICC investigation — of Russia

“Book bans are about limiting kids’ freedom to read and teachers’ freedom to teach”

The following is excerpted from my a book Don’t Think Of A Republican – How I Won A Republican Primary As A Lefty Progressive And You Can Too

Now is the time to improve and extend Medicare to everyone

It is within our power to bring about the answer that we all hope for, but there is no time to waste

140 billion metric tons of planet-heating gases could be unleashed if fossil fuel extraction plans get green light, analysis shows

“It is foolish to think that announcing new curbs in the Queen’s Speech will stop people taking to the streets to demand their government act to ensure a safe future.”

Ukraine, Self-determination, and the National Question

Indians know they can’t rely on elites to save them from catastrophe. That’s exactly what could make a climate movement there so powerful

Former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro may soon be Colombia’s first left-wing president. His candidacy has been met not only with smears, but credible threats of assassination from the Right

We need to talk about the positive actions that complement criminal justice reform. And we need to speak loudly and proudly the vision we have and the solutions we know work.

Please Help ZNet           Perhaps the writer of these lines is not too far off from having a first-hand experience of the idea of Academentia that has entered the public domain in recent times. Academentia combines two things: a) academia, i.e. those working in post-secondary education, e.g. universities; and b) dementia: Read more…

“If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing justices nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to make abortion legal and safe.”

The justices making up the majority are clearly partisans representing a zealous minority. The people must respond with mass action, litigation, legislation, and voter registration

The Veneer of Accountability Is Wearing Thin in Twenty-First-Century America

The virus is changing every day, yet we continue to react to it with half-measures and foggy assumptions that “the worst is behind us.”

From Starbucks and Amazon to political campaigns and digital media, workers in historically unorganized occupations are forming unions—and breathing new life into the U.S. labor movement

From student debt strikes to withholding rent.

Demystifying the world of budgets, expenditures and surpluses for all cooperative worker-owners and justice-oriented organizations

Pfizer is projected to rake in more than $50 billion from its COVID medicines this year. It’s a symbol of the drastic inequality created by a for-profit approach to global health

Across 12 years, the Conservatives have ruined countless lives and destroyed our social fabric. Why would anyone vote for them?

We cannot know how Ukraine will develop after the war. But we know there will be horrible consequences if Russia wins

Information warfare on European soil

In a long-term view of the eastern EU border, it is heightened militarization and exclusion that is the norm