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We can’t say a world without police wouldn’t work when the places that supposedly “need” police have never received adequate resources to thrive

Europe rolls out the welcome mat for the Turkish leader, while Kurds are ethnically cleansed

There is a growing transnational solidarity of tear gas resilience, aided by social media and mobile technologies that help protesters circulate relief remedies, gas mask designs and grenade throwback techniques

A ‘think tank’ is sometimes a group of people paid to think, by the people who control the tanks (as Naomi Klein once remarked). Here in Johannesburg, one of South Africa’s highest-profile intellectual vehicles appears to be a victim of drunken driving by scholars from whom we otherwise expect much stronger political navigation skills. In the luxurious central business Read more…

The combination of street protests, electoral activism and increasing union strength is one of the most important features of Iraq’s political landscape

A national veterans’ organization is weighing in on this year’s Emmy awards with a full-page ad in Variety, saying Ken Burns and Lynne Novick’s “Vietnam War” series does not deserve a “Best Documentary” award

Taking a knee is in the best American tradition of protest

A deconstruction of Israel’s approved history is the best way to challenge a word laundrette that turns ethnic cleansing into self-defense, land robbery into redemption and apartheid practices into “security” concerns

Advice to College Graduates in the Age of Trump

Barr’s odyssey (or odd-yssey) from a liberal champion of the underpaid working class to a vitriolic Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist with an attraction to racist language is in many ways symptomatic of the United States itself

Once it was the State Department which called for ‘restraint on all sides’ – usually when the Israelis were invading or bombing Lebanon or Gaza – but now it’s the Kremlin which calls for ‘restraint’ between Israel and Iran. Putin is fast becoming a friend to all

Interview on Halper’s involvement in the CIA and the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan

The U.S. record fomenting coups and directly intervening in Latin America, which goes back to the middle of the 19th century

After the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration created a secret “kill list” to step up the targeting of alleged terrorists for assassination. The criteria for inclusion on the list have apparently morphed over three presidential administrations, yet they remain elusive. Last year, two journalists filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump and other high government officials, asking to be Read more…

Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s radical critique of wellness and self-improvement

In the face of a potentially dystopian future, the left still retains a small window of opportunity to begin to turn the tables—but only if it can learn to move beyond some of the ambivalent legacies it has inherited

Interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world

Kids are being poisoned before our eyes, and you’re talking about slogans that have nothing whatsoever to do with reality. That’s just flat out wrong

Interview on reproductive health restrictions

As we work to extend the reach of these emerging alternative economic efforts, we are able to create stronger community bonds, build well-being, and activate new participants toward the goals of equity and stability

Chapter 24 of RPS/2044

Is fossil fuels divestment an effective strategy in tackling climate change? A newly released study by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst suggests that this strategy is not sufficient on its own in affecting the global battle against climate change and that new approaches are needed. Robert Pollin, a distinguished Read more…

Narco-Corruption, ISIS 3.0, and the Terror Drone Attack That Never Happened

Let’s celebrate holidays that promote things we truly value, including peace

Fathi Harb should have had something to live for, not least the imminent arrival of a new baby. But last week the 21-year-old extinguished his life in an inferno of flames in central Gaza

“Never Again Can There Be a Mexico Without Indigenous Peoples”

Make bosses pay for the disasters they cause

As Argentina debates a new law to legalize abortion, activists like Sandra Hoyos are rallying for a pro-choice future for the country

The occupation, strikes, and pickets may be over for now, but perhaps the solidarity formed will endure

Fathi Harb should have had something to live for, not least the imminent arrival of a new baby. But last week the 21-year-old extinguished his life in an inferno of flames in central Gaza

The nation’s entrenched fossil-nuclear corporate elites are more focused on propping up the industries of the past than embracing the technologies of the future

What Maduro’s opponents seek is a scenario where they can eliminate all traces of the Bolivarian Revolution

We need action, and a new moral compass — one that recognizes that the best way to honor our veterans, keep people safe, end poverty, and fund jobs, education and health care for veterans and everybody else is to end the wars

The Toys “R” Us bankruptcy—along with massive job losses stemming from predatory Wall Street deals at Sears, Kmart, Sports Authority, Radio Shack, and Claire’s—should be a wake-up call

It’s the Paul Ryan agenda which could never have gotten elected in its own right, because it’s anathema to most Americans — slashing Medicare, slashing social security, transferring trillions of dollars from the working people, and even the poor and the middle class to the very rich

While the Venezuelan opposition’s fraud claims following President Maduro’s reelection triumph hold little water, the Bolivarian Revolution stands at the most critical crossroads of its history

“Instead of a blueprint for peace and security, this NDAA continues the practice of endless war with no input or oversight from our congressional leaders,” lamented Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)

The region is home to 90 percent of Americans who fall into the health care coverage gap — not wealthy enough to afford private insurance but not qualified for the public health insurance program for the poor and disabled

Monday’s ruling banning employee class-action suits could open the door to destroying non-union workers’ rights

In Jackson, Mississippi, community land trusts are key to fair and affordable development

The revolt of voters across the Western world has reached a high point in Europe

George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera acknowledged this month that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation “some influence” over hiring and evaluating faculty

Trump’s pursuit of his ultra right economic nationalist policies, combined with the aggressiveness of US war-defense faction, will have the long run effect of reducing US hegemony in the global economy

Maduro’s electoral victory was expected, given the Democratic Unity Roundtable’s boycott and allegations of vote manipulation. But both Chavistas and opposition camps will need to find common ground to solve the pressing challenges Venezuela faces

For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited

Will Overtake US in Energy Technology, Security

An employer that disciplines an employee for engaging in peaceful speech has disciplined an employee in violation of public policy

Hundreds of Poor People’s Campaign Activists Got Themselves Arrested

Interview on a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War

In conversation with an Israeli conscientious objector