29 Jun 2016

The Democratic Party’s Neoliberal Rationalizations Of Corporate Power Endanger The Planet

What stands in the way of meaningfully addressing climate change is not only the fossil fuel industries but neoliberal rationalizations of corporate power.

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29 Jun 2016

Brexit: The Left Should Not Be Neoliberalism’s Useful Idiots

Left-wing critics of Brexit are doing is justifying the status quo, when they should be launching their own movements to lead the fight against neoliberalism.

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28 Jun 2016

Clinton Democrats Claim To Support Health Care As A Right, But Oppose Universal Healthcare In Platform

Clinton Democrats favored a platform amendment that reinforced the idea that health care is a right but had no specific goals for how to fight for that right.

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28 Jun 2016

US May Be Using NYT and Al Jazeera to Pressure Jordan on Military Intervention in Syria

Get the latest news from around the world in our Next Cold War round-up.

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28 Jun 2016

Delete Your Account – Episode 5: Dying For Education

On this episode, Roqayah and Kumars talk to Andalusia Knoll, a freelance multimedia journalist based in Mexico City.

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27 Jun 2016

Film Review: ‘Weiner’ Captures Quintessence Of Political Hubris

It is captivating to see Weiner and his team, along with Abedin, follow the playbook for handling political scandals.

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27 Jun 2016

Partisan Media Is Worthless

Social movements, not the work of political parties, are the key to forcing the powerful to make concessions.

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27 Jun 2016

Protest Song Of The Week: ‘The Rape Of The World’

America’s political class remains largely unmoved by the urgent need to radically alter society in order to curb the impacts of climate disruption. That much was clear as lobbyists and progressives appointed by Hillary Clinton opposed strengthening the Democratic Party platform to include support for a ban on natural gas

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26 Jun 2016

Director Of Palestine Legal Discusses New York’s Plans For BDS Blacklist

A political crackdown on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel’s occupation of Palestine has spread over the past year, and in the past month, it has sharply escalated with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order. Hillary Clinton has also shown she would aggressively promote cracking down on

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25 Jun 2016

Democrats Prioritize Party Unity Over Including Stand Against TPP In Platform

Members appointed by Clinton and DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz claimed it was improper to oppose the TPP when President Obama fervently believes in it.

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