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‘Silent Extermination’: Israel Bombs Medicine Stores in Gaza, Worsening the Strip’s Dire Healthcare Crisis

Published: August 5, 2026 19:54

Before dawn on Sunday, August 2, the Israeli military struck a pharmaceutical warehouse adjacent to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in what Palestinian health officials described as the latest step in a systematic campaign to…

“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn

Published: August 5, 2026 19:50

We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation, about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the…

The Most Shocking Climate News of 2026

Published: August 4, 2026 16:01

The UK Green Party’s former leader Caroline Lucas recently nailed the Labor Party for “burying the most explosive report” of the year by UK military and intelligence sources. The concealed report warns “that the global collapse of ecosystems poses grave…

The Four Questions of Capital – a Modern-day Exodus Story

Published: August 4, 2026 16:01

Vi kumt di kats ibern vaser? [How does a cat cross over the water?] — Old Yiddish saying The First Question: What’s the Matter with Massachusetts or [your jurisdiction here]? In 2014, the Boston Globe asked: “If Massachusetts were a country, how rich would…

German Politicians Misjudge Global Warming

Published: August 4, 2026 16:01

During the spring heat wave, Europe registered an estimated 800 so-called “surplus deaths”. Meanwhile in Germany, deaths by heat are not even recorded in German death certificates. Surplus death is the official term used when more people are dying than in…

The Rulers of the Nuclear Powers are Slow Learners

Published: August 4, 2026 16:01

Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear holocaust. The nine nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India,…

Horse, Anyone? Equine Spotting in the Food Chain

Published: August 4, 2026 16:01

The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of its presence. In a world of mass supply, changing of hands, and bewilderingly complex distribution channels, can anyone be sure that…

Classical Marxism As Beacon or Barrier?

Published: August 4, 2026 16:00

[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and relevance in the context of today’s Left and the struggle for a better world. The full series can be found here.] This…

Israel Kills 19 Palestinians in Gaza Hours After Trump Announces His Latest ‘Peace Plan’

Published: August 4, 2026 16:00

Not long after U.S. President Donald Trump announced on July 31 that a “historic” agreement for the “complete disarmament of Hamas” and Israel’s progressive withdrawal from Gaza had been reached, Israel launched an intensified series of airstrikes across…

The Class Divide Haunting Climate Politics

Published: August 4, 2026 16:00

Socialists believe the working class is the key agent of social transformation in a capitalist society. So, perhaps the most important problem for socialists today is the fact that significant swaths of the working-class are shifting to the populist right…

A Fragile Food Regime

Published: August 3, 2026 18:28

Governments across the world have been scrambling to find ways to deal with food inflation, with populations justifiably enraged by the fact that grocery prices have been growing much faster than incomes. In May, the British government suggested the…

The Costs of the U.S. Blockade of Cuba

Published: August 3, 2026 18:12

The Trump Administration’s indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro, the deployment of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and warships, and recent measures pressuring countries not to supply oil to Cuba are all intended to force regime change on the…

The Blue Collar Brigade Has the Right Messengers

Published: August 3, 2026 18:02

When Brian Poindexter made his first fundraising calls in his campaign for Congress (OH-7), he phoned a fellow ironworker and asked for fifty dollars. His buddy said he couldn’t help, since he’d been laid off. It’s hard to imagine Poindexter’s opponent,…

Mahmoud Khalil Is Suing the Trump Administration

Published: August 3, 2026 17:56

Since October 7, 2023, critics of Israel in Europe and the United States have faced serious repression. In the United States, college student protests against the unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza were met with a heavy-handed response by police…

Sovereign Rot

Published: August 3, 2026 17:51

In the heart of Ikoyi, Lagos, a fifteen-story concrete ghost haunts the skyline. The Old Federal Secretariat was once a nerve center of Nigerian power, functioning as the heart of Nigeria’s civil service. Since the federal capital was moved to Abuja in…

Nixon Then, Trump Now?

Published: August 3, 2026 17:35

“Donald Trump is running the biggest grift in American history. The unprecedented scale of the president’s corruption was exposed by the recent release of his financial disclosure report, which revealed that he made $2.2 billion since he returned to the…

Phasing Out Fossil Folly

Published: August 3, 2026 17:32

The previous commentaries have described how people in cities, states, and communities have been expanding fossil free energy production and reducing energy use through Greentech initiatives. These are essential aspects of reducing climate-destroying…

If Not AOC, Then Who?

Published: August 3, 2026 17:25

What do we do if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decides not to run for president in 2028? It makes sense that many leftists are currently focused on calling on her to take the plunge. But the absence of a Plan B, or even much discussion about one, is worrisome.…

India in the Age of American Hegemonic Crisis

Published: August 3, 2026 17:17

In 1947, newly independent India set out on one of the twentieth century’s most consequential development experiments. Jawaharlal Nehru’s government rejected both Western free-market capitalism and alignment with the Soviet bloc, betting instead on a mixed…

Farewell Truth and Trust?

Published: August 2, 2026 14:48

So much going on. Existential crises. Fundamental needs. Short and long term agendas. Sounds heard all around the world. Much to think about. Much to do. But does the following also deserve some notice? I think maybe it does. Truth is under accelerating…

Election Security—or the Engineering of Distrust?

Published: August 2, 2026 14:04

By turning voting machines, classified intelligence, and alleged foreign interference into political theater, the Trump administration is preparing voters to distrust an election that has not yet taken place. Donald Trump has never treated elections simply…

India’s Gen Z Flexed Its Power—and Won

Published: August 2, 2026 05:54

Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify for medical schools and highly coveted government jobs. The Gen Z protesters won a major victory within…

Free DC!

Published: August 1, 2026 16:01

On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump ordered the secretary of defense to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to combat what he claimed was “an epidemic of crime in our Nation’s capital,” even though earlier that year, the D.C. United States Attorney’s office had…

“We Bring With Us European Civilization”: Race, National Oppression and the Construction of a Settler-Colonial Myth

Published: August 1, 2026 16:01

In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the “Arab” side of a debating team on what was then referenced as the “Arab/Israeli crisis.”  Two years following the disastrous “preventive” war…

Cuba: Who Will Govern the Market?

Published: August 1, 2026 16:00

Despite consensus on Cuba’s economy needing reform, the measures announced on June 25 have raised more questions than answers. They come amid a crisis combining a drop in production, a collapsing energy sector and a migration exodus, worsened by the…

Review of Michael Albert’s the Wind Cries Freedom

Published: July 31, 2026 16:05

Climate-focused progressive author Phil Wilson (ZNet, July 24, 2026) writes that “out of our current predicament there are two (and only two) possible outcomes – a world of stagnant oceans, burnt banana plantations, death camps and survival bunkers, or a…

AOC Must Run for President

Published: July 31, 2026 16:02

Horse race coverage is the dominant mode of political coverage in America. It sucks. It treats politics like sports, parties like favored teams, candidates like celebrities, and elections like personality contests. It focuses on who is up and who is down…

Forever War

Published: July 31, 2026 16:01

A widening war After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire is over but so is the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). An Iranian official said Iran would no longer carry out its obligations under the MOU,…

The “War on Drugs” Had More to Do With War Than With Drugs

Published: July 31, 2026 15:23

On July 14, at a summit in Orlando, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director Terrance Cole declared that Mexican cartels and the Mexican government are “one and the same.” He offered no evidence. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum demanded that evidence be…

The Real Story Behind Immigration, Work, and Power

Published: July 30, 2026 16:30

Most immigration debates focus on the border. But the real story starts much earlier — with trade deals, war, inequality, climate breakdown, corporate globalization, and political systems that force people from their homes while concentrating wealth and…

Josephine Solanki on Militarized European Borders

Published: July 30, 2026 15:51

This week on Talk World Radio, we’re discussing wars, migrations, and borders with Josephine Solanki who is a project coordinator at the Transnational Institute where she works on the militarisation of the European Union, EU migration and border policy,…

A Working-class Graduate is Something to Be

Published: July 30, 2026 15:51

Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class By Noam Scheiber Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2026 In the spring of 2022, a group of Chicago Starbucks workers and organizers sat together after filing their union election paperwork,…

Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math

Published: July 30, 2026 15:47

A quintessential quality of modern American life is the inescapable feeling that once-good things are subtly but surely being degraded. Things that once seemed to be abundant and free transform into consumer experiences. Existing consumer experiences…

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Published: July 30, 2026 15:45

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about. For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just…