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When a bomb falls on a school, a hospital, or a home, no euphemism can soften the truth. Babies die in incubators. Teenage girls die in classrooms. Civilians experience violence not as a “military operation” or a “strik...

On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again — a warning written nearly two centuries ago by Simón Bolívar in 1829: “The United States appears destined by Providence to plague America with mis...

As the formal economy that shaped the last two centuries begins to contract, many Canadians are quietly shifting toward local solutions. This isn’t driven by nostalgia or a rejection of modernity. It’s a pragmatic recog...

To begin with, let me recount an old Soviet, Cold War–era joke about America. A Russian and an American are seated side by side on an airplane flying from Moscow to Washington. The American turns to the Russian and says...

The DS3D – Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive – is a complicated, highly convoluted, hyper-legalistic invention, but it “can” help workers worldwide. Despite its unpronounceable name – even for Germans – G...

The dream of a national general strike to paralyze multiple major industries or corporations is gaining traction.  Across the nation, voices are rising with a righteous call for collective action at scale, especially in...

People aren’t talking enough about what happened in NC this week, so let’s talk about it. Contrary to what you might have seen or heard, the most important story from North Carolina’s primaries on March 3rd is not Repub...

International Women’s Day and the TUC Women’s Conference are opportunities for women in the labour movement to come together and discuss the challenges ahead for working-class women.  Women make up the majority of the p...

After previously representing the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, Minneapolis attorney and Republican politician Chris Madel ended his gubernatorial bid, saying “I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retrib...

The year since Donald Trump’s accession to power has seen an intense augmentation of the global polycrisis. It has also seen a few shifts in its basic dynamics. This commentary reviews fifteen continuing dynamics of the...

Looking back at what I was taught in my 6 decades on this Earth as an American and what I have had to “unlearn” thanks to my colleagues at CELDF, community members I have fought alongside and even the lawyers, judges, e...

The United States of America was founded on the lofty principles of freedom, equality and liberty for certain classes of white men.  After two centuries and a half, it has “evolved” from the noble rhetoric of its third ...

Amid the so-called “ceasefire,” as imperial grifters and disaster capitalists jockey to remake Gaza in their image and in accordance with their own interests, the genocide has not abated. In its current phase, while the...

If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has just taken place. The US government is backtracking—if not altogethe...

On International Working Women’s Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting the historic role played by Latin American women in the fight against imper...

Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations. Democracy, however, is not the enemy. Its manipulation is. For decades, Western ...

The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that have shaped US policy and regional politics for decades. What has unfolded in the past days is not...

You get focused to resist and the target moves. It doesn’t just move. It morphs. Should you set aside one focus to pick up another? Or you get focused to resist and the target moves. It doesn’t just move, it morphs. Sho...

Housing, Pensions, and Jobs: Win-Win-Win Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs

Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs for workers without university degrees are all essential to securin...

The Wounds Behind the Strongman I’ve spent decades writing about men—how we’re shaped, how we’re wounded, and how too often those wounds are mistaken for strength. (I've also chronicled

I’ve spent decades writing about men—how we’re shaped, how we’re wounded, and how too often those wounds are mistaken for strength. (I’ve also chronicled how a growing movement of men has been redefining manhood and mas...

The Writing On Trump's War Room Wall: Operation Epstein Amnesia Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools and

Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools and private residences, slaughtering all who happen to be on the prem...

Yanar Mohammed, A Flame That Will Never Die, and the Women's Revolution Continues With fierce anger burning in our hearts and an unbreakable resolve, we mourn the assassination of the courageous feminist and leftist leader and fighter

With fierce anger burning in our hearts and an unbreakable resolve, we mourn the assassination of the courageous feminist and leftist leader and fighter Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom i...

Escalation of This War Could Shatter Iran into Ethnic Enclaves As a political-cultural geographer who has long been an antiwar organizer and studied the history of U.S. military interventions, it’s clear that the war

As a political-cultural geographer who has long been an antiwar organizer and studied the history of U.S. military interventions, it’s clear that the war on Iran could set into motion a regional conflagration, the viole...

The Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Your Friend Like many of you, I have been glued to the news since Trump's bizarre announcement early Saturday morning that the USA is once again at war with Iran.

Like many of you, I have been glued to the news since Trump’s bizarre announcement early Saturday morning that the USA is once again at war with Iran. Given the assassination of the Supreme Leader, the amount of bombing...

Water, a Factor of Stability and Conflict: The Iranian Case and the Forgotten Lessons INTRODUCTION: TEHRAN, A CAPITAL TO BE EVACUATED WELL BEFORE THE BOMBS, BECAUSE IT'S DRY In November 2025, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian issued a

INTRODUCTION: TEHRAN, A CAPITAL TO BE EVACUATED WELL BEFORE THE BOMBS, BECAUSE IT’S DRY In November 2025, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian issued a warning that sent a chill through the entire country: Tehran, the c...

World War III is About to Begin Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace, the writer Romain Rolland, winner of the

Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace, the writer Romain Rolland, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote that the urgency of the momen...

AI and the Lesson Not Learned In the last century people marveled at the Wright brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk on the moon.

In the last century people marveled at the Wright brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk on the moon. Technical advances became prosaic. But we should be paying more ...

Trump and Netanyahu’s Lurch into Iran: Imperial Hubris in the Wake of a People’s Uprising Reeking of Imperial Hubris Seizing upon what they consider to be a generational opportunity, with Iran’s theocratic dictatorship shaken by the January

Reeking of Imperial Hubris Seizing upon what they consider to be a generational opportunity, with Iran’s theocratic dictatorship shaken by the January people’s uprising, Trump and Netanyahu launched a “prolonged” attack...

Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had

When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had released the top-secret Pentagon Papers to expose the official lies behind the o...

Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s Illegal Aggression in Iran Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the sovereign nation of Iran. 

Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the sovereign nation of Iran.  But what is largely missing from Western corporate media coverage of the attack ...