BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout The Los Angeles Times wins the prize for best description of the thing that happened on my TV last night: “Welcome to a parallel universe.” You cannot fully wrap your mind around what took place on […]
BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout The Republican National Convention (RNC) begins tonight, and I honestly don’t know how to complete this sentence. Many will watch, many more will not, and I’ll be fixated on this four-day failapalooza for […]
by ANDREW LEVINE At the presidential level and perhaps down-ticket too, this year’s electoral circus will be a spectacle well calculated to cause disgust and despair – thanks mainly to Donald Trump’s unprecedented machinations, but also […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face a “double crisis” as they struggle with an acute electricity shortage just as the coronavirus has spread into the community among the vulnerable population, […]
Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada The road to Jeremy Corbyn’s political downfall began at Oxford University Labour Club in February 2016. A rogue inquiry by a Labour staffer with close ties to the Israeli embassy included fabricated allegations of anti-Semitism. It […]
BYJustin Vassallo, Truthout There’s a tendency in U.S. progressive politics to focus on rehabilitating capitalism for working people. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president had the patina of an “anti-corruption” crusade, giving a populist spin to technocratic […]
By James M. Dorsey An agreement to establish diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel and a Saudi-Pakistani spat over Kashmir coupled with feuds among Gulf states and between Turkey, the kingdom, and the […]
It is widely accepted that the imperial powers committed terrible crimes in the past, but is the past really so different from the present? Proletarian writers Protests that have sprung up across the western world […]
What should British workers conclude from this four-year experiment in ‘reclaiming the Labour party for socialism’? Proletarian writers Download a digital copy of this pamphlet. Preorder a copy from our shop. Jeremy Corbyn was only included […]
by TALLI NAUMAN Image Source: Chipermc – CC BY-SA 4.0 Heat on the U.S. Presidential election campaign thermometer reached new highs during the dog days of summer 2020, with the final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar […]