22+ hour, 21+ min ago   (762+ words) Twenty-five years later, Republican politicians are still using 9/11 to justify war in the Middle East. And they’re still lying shamelessly. During remarks outside the Pentagon on Friday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (759+ words) The U.S. is measurably less free than it was when the government launched its war on terror 25 years ago, according to the most comprehensive global index of civil liberties. The most worrisome aspect of this backsliding, advocates and scholars warn, is…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1762+ words) Gerald Horne argues that understanding Du Bois’s radical internationalism is essential to understanding the political crisis—and ideological confusion—of our own time. W.E.B. Du Bois did not suddenly become a radical internationalist late in life. As historian…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (394+ words) Within any mass movement there exist political currents representing bourgeois and working-class forces and various nuances in between. In the case of this particular movement, which found inspiration from the Civil Rights struggles, bourgeois feminists, personified by Steinem, dominated the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (699+ words) And a reaffirmation of the UN charter and international law. Chinese President Xi Jinping underlined the need for stronger international coordination for common security in West Asia and a reaffirmation of the UN Charter and international law. Xi demanded external…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (435+ words) But the story doesn’t end with Steinem. Norton connects the Cold War propaganda apparatus to CIA interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Italy and Indonesia, the enormous human toll of U.S. post-9/11 wars, and the cultural institutions and intellectuals allegedly enlisted to…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (242+ words) The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Sunday urged Americans to push back on the vision of the future being presented by the oligarchs who run the artificial intelligence industry. In an interview with MeidasTouch, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas)…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (955+ words) A familiar spectre is haunting the nation — that of communism. Or so one might conclude from the Republican Party’s increasingly frantic rhetoric. Following a string of wins by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in congressional primaries from New York…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (790+ words) In every war, there is supposed to come a moment when the guns fall silent and families carry their dead to the cemetery. In Gaza, that moment has still not fully arrived. Nearly three years into the war, thousands of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (302+ words) With age, I’ve become more aware of the world’s complexity but also better equipped to come to simple, albeit painful, conclusions. Everyone understands (or should understand) that our reality—both the physical world around us and the social world we…...