Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words from his “Beyond Vietnam” speech still ring true. “When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights ...

Andrew Jackson led armed forces into what is now Alabama on a homicidal mission against Creek Indians. Refusing to discriminate between the armed and ...

According to the latest figures released by the Gaza Ministry of Health (GMoH) on December 23rd 2025, Israel had killed at least 70,937 Palestinians and wounded 171,192; of those identified fatalities ...

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ...

Nicolas Sawaya is a former academic who strongly supports the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice. He blogs at www.notesfromunderground.me and can also be found on X (formerly Twitter) at ...

The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president, did not mask their motives, minimize the violence, or ...

Is the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”? To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There are ...

Silent people are not political subjects but followers. They can also be called losers. If war is in the air, losers are going to, well, lose.

A problem-solving principle stating that, when presented with competing hypotheses, the one with the fewer assumptions or entities (the ...

The recent protests in Iran began on 28 December 2025, mainly in Tehran, when shopkeepers and bazaar merchants started closing their businesses and ...

Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in ...

My education, or rather an initial lack of an education, goes to the heart of what it means to be an educated person. My studies at the bachelor’s level ...