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Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent 37 years in prison after being falsely convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981

America is busy being great again, The Jacobins are back in France, Britain searches for herself, Putin peers askance.   China sits on a pretty pile, India was always great, The rest of the world fidgets furtively, Wondering at its fate.   Nature fires shards of ice Into the hottest tea, The Earth snarls “boy, Read more…

What has to happen next is that building peace becomes the norm

I believe the Zapatista movement has much to teach us about the enduring nature of this work and the patience that comes along with that understanding

In the New Year, let us resolve to fight like we have never fought before for a government, a society and an economy that works for all of us, not just those on top

Netflix has been forced to pull Episode 2 of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” for Saudi viewers because it criticizes the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi

By abetting the ad industry, universities are leading us into temptation, when they should be enlightening us

Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power in Brazil

Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to Brazilian democracy — and a model for authoritarianism that leaders around the world will follow

Not only are there neo-isolationist currents in the American heartland and among the Libertarian fraction of the business classes, but the anti-imperialism of the 2018 New Left may also push in that direction

My private commitment for 2019 is to nurture humility, while trusting the formation of identities that link a progressive vision for our nation to a cosmopolitan embrace of humanity, with a major infusion of empathy

Trump’s withdrawal of American troops from Syria that defied the bipartisan consensus that has shaped U.S. foreign policy since 1945 poses the biggest challenge to the Trump presidency, especially as it shook Israel’s confidence and coincides with woes of Wall Street

The hysteria over the drop in the stock market is either people in the media displaying their ignorance or a political swipe at Donald Trump by people who apparently don’t think there are substantive reasons to criticize him

The US authorities’ relentless pursuit of Assange is encouraged by the cowardice of many journalists who have abandoned him to his fate or even delight in his misfortune

Agents are effectively given license to act as judge, jury, and executioner, particularly when firing their weapons into Mexico

Yemen war: At least six times as many killed in conflict than previously thought, report says

he French popular masses, already famous for their anger and cynicism, are furious at being taken for fools by their betters and joyful at feeling their own strength and solidarity. No one knows where all this will end

In a return to the bad old days of McCarthyism, Bahia Amawi, a US citizen of Palestinian descent, lost her Texas elementary school job after refusing to pledge in writing that she would not participate in the BDS movement

Folks across the country, from local city leaders to state attorneys general, are out there chipping away at the biggest existential threat of our time. And they’re actually getting somewhere. Here’s proof

Educational policies that violate international human rights laws need to be repealed so that every young person, regardless of where they are born or what papers they have, has equal access to higher education

The shocking willingness to attack Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans and embrace American Islamophobia reveal a deeper and more depressing state of affairs between the Arab world and its expatriates

If the conflicts are outsourced to the private sector, one wonders where the Pentagon’s forces will be re-deployed to

“We want to challenge Donald Trump … by pointing out that he continues to support the war in Yemen and the repressive Saudi regime”

Will Nuclear Advocates Undermine it?

Is the Green New Deal too ambitious? No. We need ambition. The impending climate crisis is the biggest problem the human race has ever faced, and we can’t think small

A lavish outlay on the military now constitutes about two-thirds of the U.S. government’s discretionary spending. And these other sectors of American life are in big trouble

“Justice would best be served by allowing the petitioner (Abu-Jamal) re-argument before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,” wrote Tucker, “before a complete and clearly unbiased tribunal” or court.

Issues of War and Peace Among the Jeans

Today, there is no credible peace process and will not be as long as he and the world continue to see the role of US president as the primary arbiter of peace

You Really Can’t Imagine a Third Possibility

Watch out when men of war come to the rescue

Moving beyond an overwhelmingly white Women’s March seems to me something to celebrate

Probably the best thing that can be said about Acting Secretary Shanahan is that he probably won’t be top dog at the Pentagon for long

When government legislation ordered Canadian postal workers back to work, other unions and labor groups across the country organized picket lines to support postal workers and the right to strike

In this season of (hoped for) peace and goodwill, it’s worth looking for things our divided country can agree on. And since all of us want to be able to trust government to spend wisely, we might find common cause in a surprising place: the Pentagon budget. When you think of politicians railing against the Read more…

It takes consistent grassroots pressure from below to really achieve the kind of change that’s needed

Interview on the historical importance of this moment in the US and across the world, and the need to take strategic, coordinated action

Is protecting Israeli Apartheid more important to Americans than preserving the fundamental nature of their own democracy?

Not One That Only Benefits the Rich

A hand-to-mouth existence is the source of its strength

If a new wave of neoliberalism sweeps Brazil, it will almost certainly reduce prospects for meaningful economic development that benefits the majority of people

This Time in the Right Direction

In olden times illness reigned, Now sickness is the trend; Illnesses have inanimate cures, Sickness needs a friend.   Friends are now in short supply, Godmen take their place; But what is a godman next to a friend Who listens more than says.   So better be ill than be sick Is a friend’s advice Read more…

Noam Chomsky’s ideas on the media in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media have provided us with a guide, full of cautionary tales and ideas that are still controversial to this day

Should the candidates that mass media and party elites put forward as “progressive” be quickly embraced or carefully scrutinized? The question must be asked and answered

A report from the protests finds a community spirit that bears little resemblance to the media’s depictions

When the columnist with the longest tenure at the country’s leading newspaper has no clue on the biggest issues facing the world, then it is a good sign that the elites in general have no idea what they are doing

Interview on freedom struggles over the past 50 years, and where people’s movements are going next

To win substantive reforms, our system is overdue for structural reforms. 2018 creates an opening

Neoliberalism functions not simply as an economic model for finance capital but as a public pedagogy that operates through a diverse number of sites and platforms