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The first time I heard about the Yippies, I was almost thirteen. The Democratic Convention was going full swing in Chicago in August 1968. I delivered...
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Recently, commentators from various places on the US political spectrum have discussed and even called for the reinstitution of mandatory...
Is it Donald Trump who’s afraid of peace or is it the political establishment of Washington DC that’s afraid of peace? Recent negotiations between...
Ramzy Baroud, editor of the Palestine Chronicle, which has been the most reliable English language news source regarding the conflict in Palestine...
In 2026, the United States is being ruled by an administration led by a wannabe dictator named Trump. His ego seems to dominate his decisions, while...
The recent military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife make it clear once again that the people of what we currently...
There is only one word to describe the US attacks on Venezuela. That word is criminal. It is the only word that describes the act of invading...
Two hundred and fifty years ago, European colonists mostly from Britain were conspiring to chase the elements of the British monarchy from the shores...
I’ve read dozens of books published by PM Press since its inception a couple decades ago. I’ve reviewed a good number of the ones I’ve read. In...
The death of the National Guard soldier Sgt. Beckstrom in Washington, DC was an easily averted tragedy that should never have occurred. To begin with,...
The arrogance of colonialists and imperialists never changes. One need only look at the recent “stabilization” plan for Palestine to understand...
Since at least Spring 2024, universities in the United States and Canada have suspended or banned various student organizations opposing the illegal...
In the past few weeks, the US military has killed around thirty people in cold blood. The murders occurred on boats traveling in waters on both sides...
The piano enters stealthily, its ethereal elements exposed. A tentative trumpet follows, the flutter of the player’s tongue creating a sound not...
Leonard Cohen sings a song called “The Partisan”. It tells the story of an antifascist fighter in the heart of the war against Nazism. Beautifully...
I just finished reading the new book by Thomas Pynchon titled Shadow Ticket. The novel tells us there’s a war on or a war coming picking up where...
In his book The Return of Black Nationalism and the Death of White Supremacy, Vincent Adejumo defines Black power as self-determination: “What power...
One of the most appalling conversations I have had this century took place in Greenwich Village’s Washington Square on September 11, 2001. The...
Charles Edward Coughlin was an ultra-right Catholic priest, Christian nationalist and fascist sympathizer in the 1930s and 1940s. Although he began...
The Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) has been oft-maligned by those to its left and to its right. To the casual observer the attacks from...
Some of those who pay attention to electoral politics in the United States think the system those politics define and delineate can still be...
In the last dozen or so years of the twentieth century, the United States sent US military forces to Peru, Colombia, and Panama in the name of a war...
The Darien Gap on the border of Colombia and Panama is the only stretch of the Pan-American Highway that is not a highway. Instead, it is a dangerous...
It seems so long ago, but the movement against global capitalism that featured mass protests against meetings of capital’s biggest criminals and...
Over the last fifty years, the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s occupation has been described in various ways by friend and foe alike. The...
I was never a huge fan of hardcore punk music. That being said, I have seen dozens if not hundreds of punk shows. From Vancouver, BC’s DOA to...
The attack that most of the world had been anticipating finally took place. Israel’s expanding role as the world’s leading aggressor nation added...
Underground films, transvestites, hippies and freaks, businessmen and secretaries checking out the other side of life, plastic people and people...
In November 1938, a seventeen year old refugee without papers named Herschel Grynzspan from Poland walked into the Nazi Embassy in Paris, France,...
Military parades are a joke, like an old man driving a convertible or marrying someone fifty years younger than them (or both). In other words, they...
As they often did, the headlines in the New York Times brought more bad news the morning of September 12, 1973: “Allende Out, Reported Suicide....
Spanish antifascist Mercedes Núñez Targa’s memoir Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman’s Fight Against Fascism is a powerful and...
As residents of a Vermont town that recently passed the AFSC Apartheid-Free Communities pledge, we write today to ask our Vermont state and federal...
The numbers are coming in, and as always, the estimates vary widely. Let’s just say there were more than a million people across the United States...
I believe it would be a good thing if Trump and his crew of fascists, fools and billionaires cut the military budget in half. If USAID does actually...
There’s a section titled “Concerning Violence” in Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial masterwork The Wretched of the Earth where he writes...
One can look back into the catacombs of history and find a multitude of precedents that almost but not quite fit. Caligula and Nero. Mussolini and...
Donald Trump and his cohorts want to take back the Panama Canal. According to Trump and those who support this desire, this is because China...
There’s a precipice and we are standing on its edge. The world as it exists on the eve of 2025 is a world of war and genocide. It is a world where...
To most people who read or otherwise consume western media, the fall of the Assad government in Syria was unusually quick and even surprising. For...
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