Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor...
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Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from straying. But straying happens, transgressions inevitable. Some are...
What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce about Taiwan?
Chinese chairman Xi Jinping met with Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, at her request in Gyeongju, on 31 October, in the Republic of Korea. The recently ensconced Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi began her early leadership with a major diplomatic gaffe...
Soldiers of Solidarity — Part III
Our soldiers did not go to Africa to conquer, but to liberate.” — Fidel Castro1 Read Part I and Part II. In late 1975, as Angola prepared to cast off Portuguese rule, its fragile independence was threatened by apartheid South Africa’s armies and CIA‑backed...
As Public Support for ICE Drops, Women’s March WIN Launches Campaign Urging Agents to Walk Away
As the Trump administration enters its eleventh month pushing aggressive immigration crackdowns, public sentiment appears to be shifting. A new YouGov survey finds growing discomfort with the broad and aggressive methods being employed by the U.S. Immigrations and...
Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed
US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago....
News Junkie? Those Daily Newspaper Days, the Competing AM v. PM Dailies
“Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can’t fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.” It is an amazing g-force terminal...
Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban
On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct participation in the commission of genocide and war crimes across the...
Two Peace Prizes: The Nobel Legitimizes the Empire’s War on Venezuela While the US Peace Prize Honors Resistance
The Nobel Peace Prize was established in 1901. In the decades that followed, Mahatma Gandhi emerged as the international symbol of world peace for resistance to the dominant imperialism of his time – the British Empire. He was never recognized by the Nobel Committee....
Ximdo; Peoples Peace Movement Grows in Horn of Africa
Ximdo is a people’s peace movement that has been growing in the war and famine-plagued Horn of Africa for several months now. The word is from the Tigrinya language, used by Eritreans and Tigrayans in Ethiopia. It has a number of meanings, but the best is “coexistence...
Nine Days in Gaza: Dr. Amr Gharib’s Testimony from Nasser Hospital
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Mass Murder As “Public Service” In “Our Democracy”
Super-hawk Elliot Abrams is back in the news again, worrying that Donald Trump lacks “clarity” about what he intends to do in Venezuela. Abrams recommends that the president eliminate all doubts and ambiguities in his mind and directly attack Venezuelan territory in...