It is one of those moments when the artist is out of London and I am back from abroad before seeing her again. The studio is empty. Dozens of paint pots

For those who remember the Iraq war, Iran seems like deja vu all over again. After enduring the “shock and awe” bombing of Iraq in 2003, the late NPR

You live somewhere. You care not only about there, but about elsewhere. You care about your home, neighborhood, state, country, region, continent, and

We are living through times where the architecture of global peace is not merely crumbling; it is being deliberately dismantled. The drums of global

Since Israel and the United States launched their unprovoked war against Iran, thousands of Westerners in the Gulf states have been scrambling for the

I met Gabriel Rockhill by chance, but not by accident. We were introduced by Helen Yaffe, a dear friend of Cuba, in January of this year during the

The “No Kings” slogan sounded promising when it exploded across the United States in 2025: a mass rejection of authoritarianism, unchecked executive

I was so smitten with Cuba when I went there with Pastors for Peace in 2007 that I bought a school bus the very next year and drove it down from Maine to

In the game of historical analogies, the mugging of Iran and the resulting shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz are a rerun of the 1956 Suez crisis, when the

Prologue Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the artificial product of machines. It is not intelligence. Intelligence is a virtue shared by humans and other

In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate

Carbon-free renewables make up so small a share of the global energy mix—about one-seventh—but that the very modest growth in renewables in late years has done nothing to halt the rise of fossil fuels. In fact, the only carbon-based fuel we are burning less…

What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is already clear.

It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural transformation of its economy. Throughout the 20th century, the country…

The echoes of 1960s Harlem—free breakfasts, Black Panther patrols, school protests and strikes—returned as I watched modern Black Panthers confront ICE

Two nights ago, during his insane war speech on Iran the demented lunatic atop the US Empire claimed to have created the “highest ever” stock market. But

One month into the war in Iran, journalists and politicians, Democrats and Republicans, leftist, rightists, and independents should no longer be asking

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As another April 1st rolls by, it marks 35 years of the $2.13 federal subminimum wage. Yes, I realize this seems like an April Fool’s joke, but it is no

The struggle of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank for the lands stolen from them is an exhausting battle on multiple fronts. "The theft of land is