By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva “If [Augusto] Pinochet were alive, he would vote for me,” said José Antonio Kast in 2017, during the Chilean presidential election when he ran as an independent candidate. This was […]
Israel’s manipulation of UK politics: time for zero tolerance But don’t rely on the foreign secretary… or the prime minister… or the speaker to take action. And especially not the Standards Committee. By Stuart Littlewood Both […]
“Let we who believe in freedom and justice be his legacy always,” said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign. JULIA CONLEY Leaving behind a legacy of fighting for oppressed people in […]
Boris Johnson flies the Israeli flag over Number 10 New Conservative government’s foolish attempt to outlaw BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions) By Stuart Littlewood Christians in the Gaza Strip are not allowed to visit holy cities such […]
BY NICK PEMBERTON I was slightly surprised to see that Richard Wolff opposed vaccine mandates. C. Derick Varn thought Wolff wanted to support the position of the working class and this was why he opposes the […]
BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Icy Bay, Alaska. A century ago, the water of this bay was covered by ice. NASA. It does not look likely the Biden administration will act in time to forestall the predicted punishing […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Daniel Lobo – CC BY 2.0 In Berlin in 1927, my father Claud Cockburn experienced a peculiarly depressing Christmas day when he shared his dinner with a dog. I was thinking about […]
BY M. SHAHID ALAM Photograph Source: Mark Dixon – CC BY 2.0 “If you set to work to believe everything,you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind,and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be ableto […]
King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a “radical redistribution of economic and political power.” PETER DREIER In his absorbing profile of the writer Alex Haley (author of “Roots” and “The Autobiography […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 You have to listen to what Donald Trump says. If he’s made one thing clear, it’s that, when it comes to the big stuff, he keeps […]