What Is Black August To The Black Comrade
Benny Schaft, Workers World. “What I do feel is the urge to resist, resist and never stop resisting or even think of stopping my resistance until victory falls to me.”…
Many Call Authoritarianism “Un-American.” 250 Years of History Show Otherwise
By Petala Ironcloud This article was originally published by Truthout A group of Indigenous scholars are countering erasures in US history in Rebecca Nagle’s new “First America” podcast. The United…
Juneteenth Beyond the Celebration: Freedom Delayed, Freedom Denied, Freedom Still Demanded
Joshua Scheer As Americans gather for Juneteenth celebrations across the country, it is worth remembering that the holiday commemorates not merely the end of slavery, but also the unfinished struggle…
Hidden History: How Mossad Infiltrated Italy
Kit Klarenberg Substack Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s April 13th announcement Rome will suspend a longstanding defence agreement with Israel sent shockwaves throughout Europe. Historically, Italian governments – even when…
Year 4: The Timeline That Tells the Tale
Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand the war in Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to…
Michael Parenti (1933-2026): 1918
On Memorial Day 2018, in the year marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Michael Parenti contemplates the trenches and the oligarchs who caused so much…
Communism Defeated Fascism Eighty Years Ago and Will Defeat it Again
Amidst a web of lies and half-truths touting the heroism of the West in World War II (what we call the World Anti-Fascist War), the enormous truth is that it…
Palestine Maps in 2000 Years History
An Exhibition of Palestine maps showing Al Nakba, before and after, with other unique maps of Palestine on the 25th anniversary of Palestine Land Society.
Dick Cheney’s Expansive Vision of Presidential Power Lives On in Trump’s Agenda
Cheney thought that Congress went too far after Watergate in reining in the presidency. Now Trump and the Supreme Court are embracing Cheney’s views on executive power.
Strategic Incompetence in the Age of Trump
Trump Is Bad at Running the Country.
Was The 20th Century A Catastrophe, Or A Miracle? | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis
Our guest on Downstream this week is the economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis. He joins Aaron in the Novara studio to discuss his most recent book…
Alfred McCoy: A Dying American Empire, ‘Rotten to the Heart?’
How Trump is Demolishing U.S. Global Power and Its World Order
Patrick Lawrence: Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
If You Don’t Want to Confront Oppression, Your Role as an Intellectual Is Pointless
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity…
Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed…