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The genocide in Gaza has not stopped: pain advances at times drop by drop and at others like an unstoppable tsunami

There are days when death in Gaza seems to advance in silence, one life today, another tomorrow, as if horror were administered in small doses so as not to disturb the world’s conscience too much. And there are other days…

Ignoring China’s Poverty Alleviation Success Is Costing Us All

Over the past month, Chinese social media platforms like Xiaohongshu and Bilibili have begun dismantling the myth of the “American dream,” replacing glossy imagery with firsthand accounts showing that life in the so-called “land of the free” is far from…

Power, greed and psychopathy

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to wield power are those who have never sought it. Those who are forced to assume leadership, accept it because they must, and discover, to their own…

85 Seconds to Midnight and Challenging New Start Treaty Likely Demise

Moving “Gestapo Greg” Bovino out of Minneapolis was a Trump administration costume change as the assaults on constitutional democracy and immigrants grind on in each of our communities. Meanwhile, multiple crises, from the climate emergency to nuclear weapons, increased poverty,…

Latin America Pushes Back Against U.S. Intervention

When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. By Medea…

Why Dialogue with FIFA—Not a Simple Boycott—Could Redefine the Role of Global Sport

The growing call to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States marks a rare moment when global sport, geopolitics, and civil society collide in full public view. With former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European political and football figures…

Joint Statement by Progressive Forces Calling for the Immediate Release of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

We, the undersigned organizations and movements committed to social justice, democracy, and international law, grounded in anti-imperialist struggle and peoples’ sovereignty, unite in unequivocal condemnation of the recent kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the constitutionally recognized President of Venezuela, by armed…

The punishment of a Trump who hates: Minneapolis as a punitive laboratory of power

Not all decisions of power are explained by the logic of security, nor even by strategic interest. Some obey a more primitive impulse: punishment. The migration offensive deployed in Minneapolis at the beginning of January does not respond to a…

Looking at China from Inside the United States

Peering out from the United States, it’s hard to see much of China. One learns general facts and gathers views from a small number of people. But I can’t make a lot of sense out of this 4% of humanity…

America’s Sheeple Elites

Sheeple is defined as “people who are like sheep, meek, conforming, easily led.” And they are easy to herd when frightened. America’s most prominent sheeple are well-known leaders in the fields of law, education, business, and philanthropy. Intuitively, these same…

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