Raymond Nat Turner Masked. Armed to the teeth. SynchronizedRolexes. They left Lamborghini and MaseratiMotors purring … softly in the shadows onCapitalist Hill And then—suddenly—in sonic boom unison theyShouted at The People:UP AGAINST THE WALL—MUTHAFUKKKAS!GET ‘EM UP! THIS IS A FUCKIN STICKUP! Yo, fatso! Yeah, you. Waddle your way over to SenatorSadist. You, on the … [Read more...] about One Big Beautiful Bank Job!
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The "Focus On" section provides in-depth information and opinion on many facets of sustainability. (Although these topics may appear quite distinct and separate, it’s important to remember that they are interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways — in general, the 4 basic principles of ecology apply to all complex systems.)
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Activism & Advocacy
Dismantling War Culture: How Militarization Shapes Our Everyday Lives
David Andersson We are living in a particular moment where mainstream communicators want you to believe the world is in a state of permanent war — even when you are walking peacefully down your own street. Your phone relentlessly feeds you images of bombings. News channels and politicians constantly warn you of imminent danger. This is how a military culture is built. And … [Read more...] about Dismantling War Culture: How Militarization Shapes Our Everyday Lives
What Anti-Imperialists Can Learn from the Case of Syria: An Interview with Max Ajl
Black Alliance for Peace In March 2025, Syria witnessed horrific sectarian massacres by government-backed forces targeting Alawites in the country’s northwest coastal regions. Since the violent takeover of the Syrian government by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in November/December 2024, nearly 8,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed. HTS, far from being an … [Read more...] about What Anti-Imperialists Can Learn from the Case of Syria: An Interview with Max Ajl
Colonization
Harry Faber We over hereControl so much over there,At least we want to.We are trying to.We’ll stage coups too.We’ll kill too,We’ll murder too,We build bombs,We make guns,All for what?Who’s happy doing this?Is all we can do just watch?Empathy.What if it were you?What if it were you?What if it were you?What if it were your friends?What if it were your family?What if it were … [Read more...] about Colonization
How We Change Our Minds
Reflections on Resistance and Representation Maura Finkelstein I’m obsessed with questions of memory. I’m a nonfiction writer and have spent most of my life trying to write stories from the position of partial memory, in conversation with folks who also are drawing on partial memory. As an anthropologist, I used to take obsessive field notes. As a person who is now … [Read more...] about How We Change Our Minds
A Lamentation
Sammy Attoh For the souls of Gaza, and all who mourn unheard.I weep for the children whose names were never written in victory, only inledgers of loss.I cry for the mothers whose wombs bore only graves and whose lullabies arenow silence.The streets run with fear thick as blood, and the walls echo with prayersunanswered.How many times must the sun rise on the bones of … [Read more...] about A Lamentation
War On Iran Is a Fight for US Unipolar Control of the World
Preempting dollar hegemony exit, disrupting Eurasian integration with China & Russia Michael Hudson Opponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided US foreign policy for more than half a … [Read more...] about War On Iran Is a Fight for US Unipolar Control of the World
Remarks at a Rally Against the Attacks on Iran
Elaheh Farmand Editor’s note: Elaheh made these remarks at the June 26 rally against the Israel and US attacks on Iran in Bethlehem, PA. Like many immigrants from the West Asia, today I am processing grief. The grief, shock, and outrage as I watched Israel and the US bomb Iran, my birth country. Iran, whose language and songs I speak and sing proudly. Iran, who has been … [Read more...] about Remarks at a Rally Against the Attacks on Iran
Israel’s Genocidal Intentions Have Been Obvious This Whole Time
Caitlin Johnstone Liberal Israelis are slowly beginning to join the rest of the world in admitting that what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide — a fact that has been clear to anyone with eyes and a basic sense of morality from the very beginning of this nightmare. It was obvious in October 2023 that Israel intended to eliminate all Palestinians in Gaza, in part because … [Read more...] about Israel’s Genocidal Intentions Have Been Obvious This Whole Time
Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid: The United States and Israel
Aviva Chomsky In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot. Some of … [Read more...] about Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid: The United States and Israel