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Two Unsung Heroes as Role Models for the Air Force

It’s appropriate to feel rage at injustice. But the moment they take that away from you, is the moment they get you to acquiesce

While this is clearly a failure of our gun policies and of misplaced faith in policing, it also indicates a deeper rot in American society

“How can we expect them to walk into the firing line every day?”

Putin’s disastrous gamble in Ukraine has left the West in a strong position to craft a peace that would underscore the futility of Russia’s aggression

At Great Lakes Coffee, workers are on the picket line demanding their rights—part of a growing national movement to organize the cafe industry

“If we all strike together,” said the Debt Collective, “we can cancel $1.7 trillion for 45 million people. Debtors have power.”

As a queer kid, I struggled to understand what choice means. Now, as a parent, I see it as central to ensuring fundamental freedoms for all of us

This is the defenestration of the “Good guy with a gun” NRA talking point. No number of security guards or armed teachers can match that level of violence and damage

Climate Change Is Ramping It Up

“Every day that we burn fossil fuels is one more day that we’re undermining these goals for a sustainable, livable planet”

Wouldn’t it be healthy to have more diversity of views, history and context rather than ‘confirmation bias’?

In memory of the 30 victims of the Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX mass murders, we shouldn’t waste a moment before acting to bring about a Jubilee

Here Are the Lessons From 5 of Them

Women’s rights groups supporting marginalised and impoverished people are banned by Ortega’s authoritarian regime

Brazil’s presidential election in October will be a dramatic referendum on the country’s future

Of all the lies told to us, powerlessness is the worst, the most unrelenting, the most effective, and the most damaging

Guns symbolize the power of a minority over the majority, and they’ve become the icons of a party that has become a cult seeking minority power

Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See

If Starbucks Workers United can win in Greenville, it just might be able to win anywhere

Workers are leading. Unions should support them or get out of the way

Parents in DeVos’s backyard tell right-wing radicals, “No thank you to divisive, partisan agendas in schools.”

It is clear why India’s top advocates of Hindi are so conspicuously running shy of acknowledging a novel in Hindi winning the International Booker

Investors will take a hit, a new study shows—but that’s no excuse for climate inaction

We need a courageous rank and file leadership

Forty thousand rail workers across 16 companies in Britain have voted to strike

We need to fight for working people and seriously address the systemic rot that has caused so many to lose faith in our political system

Leftist Gustavo Petro Leads Presidential Vote But Faces Trump-Like Tycoon

Please Help ZNet         A teenage gunman armed with an assault rifle savagely extinguished the lives of 19 schoolchildren and two of their teachers for over an hour in the most militarized region of the most powerful country in the world. Nearby, in the waters and on the banks of the Rio Read more…

The NRA and the GOP are coalescing around gun rights in Houston, as the United States normalizes racist and random shootings nationwide

Believe it or not, the U.S. military kills about as many civilians every year as die from gun violence at home

Please Help ZNet             Source: Truthout In the United States, the public and politicians are moving in opposite directions on climate change. Grassroots environmental activism is spreading on the local state, regional and national levels, while Congress generally continues with a “business-as-usual” approach, rejecting the foremost way to avoid the Read more…

The US, Ukraine’s leading patron, has signaled it has no patience for diplomatic efforts that cut against its hope for Moscow’s “strategic defeat

Lawlessness is now so rampant that a group of realistic law professors claim there is no corporate criminal law.

A toxic combination that is poisoning our land

With a passion that recalls the aftermath of the Second World War, politicians and commentators are demanding a global order that takes seriously the rules of the United Nations Charter

Want to Win a Union at Work?

Daniel Defense, the company that made the gun used by the Robb Elementary shooter, has been handed over 100 federal contracts

At this GM plant in Mexico, workers on both sides of the border came together across national boundaries to challenge corporate power

The case for taxing the rich gets an unexpected boost

“Howard Schultz and Starbucks are getting creamed in union vote after union vote.”

A popular uprising of millions. A candidate from the social movements. A broad Left electoral front. Colombia’s political ground is shifting

Colombia heads to the polls to reject the far-right politics of Iván Duque and Álvaro Uribe

Learning from the Covid Disruption

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

Georgians went to the polls in record numbers during the May 24 primary ahead of the crucial 2022 midterm elections

Violence is the oxygen of authoritarianism

Anti-abortion women perpetuate the idea that women’s lives are about deference and self-sacrifice. But women must help one another see ourselves as human first

As Sweden backs a new iron-ore mine, the impacted Sámi people emphasize the urgent need for real climate solutions

Shelling Intensifies in Severodonetsk as Russia Moves to Capture Key City