Ten Films for a Labor Day Under New Management
Alex Demyanenko Capital and Main While the Trump administration attacks workers’ rights, here are some of the most influential films about labor from the last 50 years. In the climactic…
What’s Left of The New School?
Jeremy Varon Dissent The New School’s workforce cuts, executive power grabs, and assault on tenure show how authoritarian management is spreading far beyond Washington. It has been tough times for…
Fighting Big Money in Politics (w/ Karishma Manzur) | TCHR
Chris Hedges Report Dr. Karishma Manzur challenges the Democratic establishment in New Hampshire with an insurgent progressive senatorial campaign. Manzur aims to restore the true meaning of ‘public service.’ The…
Gazans Rebuild Their Homes Out Of Mud And Rubble
Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss. ‘They destroy, we build.’ As Israel continues to prevent the entry of reconstruction materials into Gaza, Palestinians rebuild their homes with salvaged rebar, recovered limestone, and…
Western Travelers Explore An Iran Not Shown By The Media
Kourosh Ziabari Prism Since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, officials in Washington and Tel Aviv have made several inflammatory statements about the country. “A whole civilization will…
Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the AI Industry
Hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding the AI industry. Economist Gerald Epstein says this bubble could burst. By C.J. Polychroniou This article was originally published by Truthout Hundreds of…
What The 1960s Can Teach Us About Cross-Racial Solidarity
Alexandria Shaner Waging Nonvolice There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the arguments that preceded them.…
People in Southern Iran Struggle to Repair After US Attacks on Infrastructure
By Kourosh Ziabari This article was originally published by Truthout Southern Iran is facing a naval blockade, water stress, electricity blackouts, and disrupted livelihoods. Following weeks of relentless bombing, the…
Germany Invites Taliban To Aid Afghan Deportations
Kathy Gannon Substack Afghans areno longer welcome by those who once helped them leave Afghanistan, abandoning them, no longer wanted. Western Values eh? Go figure. Germany has turned to Afghanistan’s…
Muslim Americans Organize Amid Spike in Islamophobia
John Feffer Originally published in Gad World Foreign Policy in Focus Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the United States, and yet Muslim political candidates are enjoying a banner…
UNEP: World will Exceed 1.5º C., Bringing Catastrophes and Unknowable Risks
Juan Cole Informed Comment The UN Environmental Programme has issued a new report that admits that the world will almost certainly exceed the Paris Treaty goal of limiting global heating…
Vijay Prashad: ‘Vietnam in the Field of Culture’
Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In January 1968, 470 delegates from seventy countries gathered in Cuba for the Cultural Congress of Havana. They arrived from nations at war,…
Venezuela Under Siege: What Should Progressives Do?
Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression…
Fetterman Backs Trump’s Insulting Comments Berating Opponents of Data Centers
By Chris Walker This article was originally published by Truthout Fetterman’s comments come as Trump describes those opposed to expanding data centers as “backwards.” Right-leaning Democratic Party Sen. John Fetterman…
Big Tech’s Debate Over “Open” and “Safe” AI Leaves Corporate Power Unquestioned
By Tim Scott This article was originally published by Truthout Two seemingly contradictory letters emerging from the AI industry point toward the same future. On July 24, 2026, an initial…