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According to a freshly updated map of community-owned networks, more than 750 communities across the United States have embraced operating their own broadband network, are served by local rural electric cooperatives, or have made at least some portion of a local fiber network publicly available

Two of the Trump administration’s favorite pastimes are imperiling women and screwing over workers

Police officers cannot continue to be given free rein to harass, assault, wound and kill simply because others before them have gotten away with it

The white-collar rising of 2018 reflects millennial militancy, the death of the Norquist pledge, and one more issue on which Democrats need to move left

The NFL’s cheerleader problem shows exactly what’s wrong with the league’s management: They insist on being the self-appointed guardians of America’s mythological vision of itself

Israeli leaders are faced with the same dilemma as its founders: should they again use violence to drive Palestinians from their homeland or establish an unapologetic and brutal apartheid state ruling over them?

Israeli arms helped create havoc in South Sudan, producing one of the largest refugee migrations—2 million refugees

Despite Trump telling rally he ‘wanted’ to bring them home

Americans are realizing that their pockets are being picked, their social wealth (however little it is) is being expropriated to make the new robber barons ever richer

Black Jobs Crisis Continues

Oklahoma Teachers Show No Sign of Ending Strike Without Sufficient Funding

The railway workers are aware that this is not just about their own interests, but about defending social achievements and public services for the entire working class

It is far too early to know what the future will hold for what must be the most thorough-going experiment in economic democracy in the United States today

Being of mild disposition, I am ill suited to describe in detail the thuggery by which the putative Jewish State executed 17 of its 2 million Gaza prisoners (wounding some 1,400 more) by way of inaugurating the Jewish Festival of Liberation last Friday. Fortunately, however, there is no need of such descriptive talent. The things Read more…

It should not come as any shock that a huge multinational corporation has worked legal systems in various countries to its liking

The late civil rights leader warned prophetically that the U.S. would be trapped in a series of overseas military entanglements while the gap between the rich and poor back home grew ever larger

Meet the Educators in Kentucky & Oklahoma Walking Out over School Funding

From War Hawks to Chickenhawks

Teachers are not backing down

We have a choice in how we see the world around us. Can we envision a society that doesn’t profit from the human misery of war and violence, or economic and environmental degradation?

The film contrasts aloof isolationism with Gates Foundation-style paternalism. It unfairly paints more revolutionary alternatives as narrowly violent

How rebels and civilians survived near total destruction of eastern Ghouta through huge network of tunnels

As young people newly protest, many may wonder why they have to. Why do they suffer school shootings, unbearable student debt, child hunger, racist killings, sexist rapes, surging poverty, deadening war, meaningless and insecure work, rampant profit seeking, pervasive political corruption, and escalating climate catastrophe? Why does health care create opioid scourge? Why does creating Read more…

Israeli Massacre, Palestinian Grievances

What the event last month demonstrated to many of those who were present, was the need to create safe spaces for all women

Let’s get the money out of politics. Then we can deal with the NRA

Human Rights Watch dismantles Israeli claims that the use of military snipers against civilian demonstrators was justified by a “terrorist” threat

Let us understand that when we recommend that Muslim men jettison the skull cap and Muslim women the burqa, we are saying “why can’t a Muslim be more like a Hindu.”

2 billion individually crafted echo chambers, a kind of precision-targeted mass church of self, of impatience with others, of not giving a shit

He is planning to do to the rest of the Middle East what he has done to Yemen, and is inviting the Israelis to join with him in the carnage

Last month, voters and organizers in Chicago mobilized against Illinois’ rent-control ban — a first step in stemming the city’s affordable-housing crisis

The demands of workers everywhere will be met only when they overcome the restrictive nationalist perspective of the trade unions

In Chicago this coming weekend, 2,500 rank-and-file activists, from the U.S. and abroad, will be meeting under the banner of Labor Notes to celebrate the revival of union militancy

Today in France, twelve universities are already on strike, and the social and labor situation is heating up rapidly

The Pentagon Plans for a Perpetual Three-Front “Long War” Against China and Russia

Mexico’s traditional diet of beans and corn has been replaced with pizza and hamburgers

British police say their investigation into the poisoning of former Russian army colonel Sergei Skripal in Salisbury may take many months, yet prime minister Theresa May has already identified the guilty party, claiming the order came from the Kremlin. Foreign secretary Boris Johnson, sees the incident as ‘part of a pattern of reckless behaviour by Read more…

The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place

The Promise and Problems of the Tribal Law and Order Act

Activism for immigrant rights may be about to get much more militant

As the methods of deceit are the commercial backbone of the internet and more broadly, modern commerce, there would ultimately be less to recover than is likely currently being imagined

Disrespect for teachers is certainly at play in Republican-controlled states that pay salaries that leave teachers working second, third, and even sixth jobs

You who are decreed to be invisible, Expiring dutifully in gutters, Keeping us clean without being seen, Making no claim to human status— How you rose like tsunami, drowning City after sinful city in a rage of Awakening that left duty and shame Behind—unburdened of the shackles Framed by those who neither do duty, Nor know shame. Read more…

Gazans are not wretched and passive charity cases but a politically aware public

Trump is glorifying militarism. He’s pretending it can somehow be successful. But at the same time, he’s pretending to oppose war

How Israel became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship

People everywhere make claims and complain regularly about corruption and about national security. There is virtually no country in the world where this does not occur. If no one inside the country – whether citizen, resident, or transitory visitor – speaks publicly using such language, it is only because those in power respond with exceptionally Read more…

For all intents and purposes, I am dead to everything but melancholic anxieties and horrible despair. This is torture

Bernie Sanders said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s ouster of Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin is rooted in a Koch brothers-led effort to hand federal agencies over to private corporations.

And They’re Not Over