VERSES OF IRON FOR CHE GUEVARA
Teresinka Pereira I also want to write my song of fire to the master of guerrilla warfare. It happens that I am armed […]
Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy Help Launch Global Green New Deal Project With Worldwide Invitation
“The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction.” by: Andrea Germanos, The coronavirus crisis has brought “the machine of capitalism… to […]
The Way Out of the COVID-19 Crisis Is a Green New Deal
This crisis has reinforced what we already know—our current economic system is leading us down a path of destruction. by: Claire O’Manique Fortunately, we have an alternative to this fossil-fuelled, neoliberal capitalist normal: the Green […]
'They Are Executing an Innocent Man!': Final Words of Walter Barton Spark Fresh Demand for End to US Death Penalty
“The only way to avoid executing an innocent person is to abolish the death penalty altogether.” by: Jessica Corbett, Walter Barton was executed by the state of Missouri on May 19, 2020 despite his persistent […]
McDonald's Workers Strike Across US to Demand Better Protections From Covid-19
“They Don’t Care for Our Lives”: McDonald’s Workers Strike Across US to Demand Better Protections From Covid-19 Organizers say scores of McDonalds workers have tested positive for Covid-19 in at least 16 states, but the […]
After Coronavirus Triggers 17% Emissions Drop, Experts Say Only 'Fundamental Structural Change' Can Save Humanity's Future
The research “underscores a simple truth,” says climate scientist Michael Mann. “Individual behavior alone …won’t get us there.” by: Jessica Corbett, Climate change activists from the group “No Going Back—another world is possible,” took part […]
Eruptions of Rage
by DAVE LINDORFF America’s cities are burning again. In Minneapolis, after an unarmed and unresisting George Floyd, 46 and black, was killed by a white cop after being arrested for the non-violent alleged crime of trying […]
“You Loot; We Shoot”
by LEE HALL Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Last Friday, the leader of the entity that expects my pledge of allegiance threatened to shoot—specifically—looters. Before we go into what happened last night and Saturday morning and is […]
The Second Longest War in the United States
by RON JACOBS Photograph Source: Lorie Shaull – CC BY-SA 2.0 Other than the fact I was born in Minneapolis, I have little connection to the place. My adult life never encouraged much interaction with my relatives […]
Why the Neoliberal Agenda is a Failure at Fighting Coronavirus
by RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The utter failure of private capitalism to prepare for the coronavirus should have surprised no one. Private capitalism, as business school graduates repeat, focuses on profit. The […]