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In the state of Georgia’s Glynn County Detention Center, four activists await trial stemming from their nonviolent action, on April 4, 2018, at the Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay

A powerful economic incentive continues to drive the nuclear arms race. After the Singapore Summit, the stock values of all major defense contractors — including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and General Dynamics — declined. Given his allegiance to boosting corporate profits, it’s no surprise that Donald Trump is counterbalancing the effects of the Read more…

Europe is facing the most significant refugee crisis since World War II. All attempts at resolving the issue have failed, mostly because they have ignored the root causes of the problem

The American (and world) public was informed about the dangers of global heating 30 years ago this week, on June 23, 1988, by climate scientist James Hansen. It turns out that Big Oil and other hydrocarbon industries were convinced of the dangers privately even before that, but hid their scientists’ findings from the public, causing Read more…

The Pentagon’s Provocative Encirclement of China

Dozens of protesters under the banner of #OccupyICEPDX have been maintaining a round-the-clock vigil outside the prison. They are demanding an abolition of ICE

And Has No Plan for Returning Them

How West Virginia Activists Organized a Solidarity Fund for the Uprising

How the American Federation of Teachers has taken the lead in reinvigorating the poorest county in the state

Trump took those Children Hostage to Stoke his Base

Speaking with Palestinians who still hold the keys to homes they fled decades ago

A Conversation It’s Hard to Believe We’re Even Having

The rise and rise of digital platform work

Casting Immigrants as an Existential Threat

USAID has funded the Cerrejón Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cerrejón mine in Caribbean Colombia, to the tune of millions. A months-long investigation reveals its community development projects are a front tied to a long history of displacement, violence, and death

In current parlance, here is my “takeaway” on Pranab Mukerjee’s so tantalizing visit to the RSS Headquarters in Nagpur: First, why was he invited? However Mohan ji Bhagwat may have underplayed the occurrence as a rather routine and innocent one, the invite was clearly loaded with political purpose. That India is now run by an Read more…

Material and physical death for the species is not far behind on the current U.S.-led eco- and nuclear-exterminist path

There’s no more important time to be alive than this one. To be an American, to be on the U.S.-Mexico border, to have the opportunity to define who we are as a country

Here’s a question that’s never asked: What does poverty actually feel like, especially to a child?

At the OAS, 19 member states voted in favor, 4 against, and 11 abstained when the U.S. tried to have Venezuela sanctioned

Ignored for too long, these progressive rural innovators deserve national representation

The Fight Against a Fracked Gas Future in New York State

The key to lowering CEO pay is to change the incentives for directors

Joe Crowley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Squared Off in Debate Friday Night

An eye-opening new report has documented billions of dollars of corporate theft from workers. The government is turning a blind eye

North Carolina’s law continues to disenfranchise black citizens at a higher rate than whites

Repeals ‘Amazon Tax’ to Fight Homelessness

End The Crises That Drive Migration

The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy. The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be. They can remain silent, for which history will be unforgiving. Or they can act in the interests of justice and humanity and bring this Read more…

Whether it was steel workers, hospital workers, under-paid educators, or other public employees fighting back, you could count on Brother Sadlowski being there, in person or in spirit

While struggling with the challenges posed by writing a memoir during the endgame of life, conceptual cleansing seemed essential if I was ever to convey my identity with even a slight feeling of authenticity. The mystery at the core of my personal and public existence is how I came to trust my sense of moral purpose Read more…

The White House’s peace plan is said to be days away. Meanwhile, Israel is getting a US nod as it carries on seizing Palestinian land

Pretensions of humanitarian concern from Yemen by the US, Britain and France reek of hypocrisy, shedding copious tears for the victims of war while supplying the arms and advisers with which that war is being waged

Why is India abandoning its commitment to secure the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace?

An Opportunity to Refashion the Intellectual Property Regime?

The new Spanish government has a mixed record on both austerity and regional democracy. To stay in power, it’ll have to do better on both

The struggle for power between the United States and the others was basically a struggle for primacy in oppressing the rest of the world’s nations

By 2013, undocumented activists had been organizing and sounding alarm over the separation of families from deportation and detention for years

One bill includes provisions that would cut all Title X family planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program funding from the 2019 budget.

Trump can’t stop gushing over the obsequious treatment North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gets in his country

Demonstrators in Los Angeles were joined by activists in dozens of other cities across the country on Thursday evening to protest the separation of migrant families under President Trump’s zero-tolerance crackdown on illegal immigration

In justifying the new and callous policy, which resembles slavery-era practices of selling children of slaves down the river, Sessions quoted the letter of the apostle Paul to the Romans on obeying the law

We have to begin rebuilding our societies on the basis that we share a common humanity. That other humans are not our enemies, only those who wish to enslave us to their power

This decision could invalidate tens of thousands of pending asylum claims from women fleeing domestic and gang violence, which often intersect, in Central America and Mexico

For too long, politicians and, to their shame, many in the development sector have ignored the key driver of global poverty: neoliberal capitalism

How can building trades unions organize workers in an area where they don’t have much of a foothold? You’ve got to become a fixture in the community, and be in it for the long haul.

Campaign trying ‘to force women to stay in their homes and not to take part in public life as Kurdish women have traditionally been able to do’

Families Separated, Children Detained & Residents Fighting Back

There’s no law of nature saying the gap between the rich and poor must continually expand. The first step towards changing it is to understand it

If Ortega is forced out of office by this violence, the result will not be, as some on the ostensible left would have us believe, a deepening of democracy and socialism. Rather, it will result in a return of the right-wing to power