BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr, […]
BY JOHN V. WALSH Photo by Jack Brind The Island of Taiwan has been turned into a “powder keg” by the infusion of U.S. weaponry, pushing the Taiwanese people into the “abyss of disaster.” These are the […]
BY DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Supreme Court’s latest attempt to mandate colorblindness amidst the reality of deep and widespread racial inequality has dealt another strong blow against affirmative action in higher education. […]
Pramila Jayapal, Israel and the Democratic Party BY ROBERT FANTINA Pramila Jayapal speaking in Seattle, 2015. Photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington state, set off a small firestorm when she told […]
BY RADHIKA DESAI Photograph Source: David Lienemann – Public Domain The proxy war on Russia is the centre piece of Biden’s foreign policy of uniting the world’s ‘democracies’ against ‘autocracies’, particularly China and Russia. He boasts […]
BY KARL GROSSMAN Image by Ilja Nedilko. With the film Oppenheimer opening in theatres on Friday and being widely heralded by media, and this past Sunday the 78th anniversary noted of the first explosion of a nuclear device, […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy and Consulate – CC BY 2.0 The 31 countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are taking their victory laps over the latest expansion of the political-military alliance. The […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Markus Spiske. Republican lawmakers in the US Congress are unabashedly pro-global warming: “Bring it on! We’ve got air conditioners in our cars, offices, and homes… no sweat!” Not one Republican in […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Ömer Yıldız. The deadly Israeli invasion of Jenin on July 3 was not a surprise. Also, unsurprising is the fact that the killing of 12 Palestinians, wounding of 120 more and […]
BY DANIEL WARNER Photograph Source: Fargoh – CC0 The recent mutiny by Wagner has left several unanswered questions. Among them: What about the role of private military groups in general? The Wagner Private Military Company, its formal […]