The transfiguration of Armistice Day to Veterans Day and our recompense. Armistice Day and the Empire Remarks delivered at Community Church of Boston, November 9, 2025 (transcript edited for clarity and corrections).https://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=4053 Continue reading

ScreamOfTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons On April 24, 2024, the South Lawn of the University of Texas (UT) at Austin became a battleground. What began as a peaceful student demonstration in solidarity with Palestine quickly descended into violence, not from protesters but from the state itself. I was on the front lines as state troopers in riot gear stormed into the crowd, arresting and zip-tying students by the dozen, shoving bystanders to the ground and turning the lawn of our University into a militarized zone.  Continue reading

We cannot lose sight of the fact that the global Zionist movement, since its inception over 140 years ago, has advanced a racist, genocidal, and settler-colonial agenda. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are only one arm of this wider project. The structures enabling Israeli state terrorism extend far beyond the military, national-tourist-influential-industrial complex, into political, financial, and religious institutions globally. Continue reading

Who Is Tom Barrack, and Why His “Levant Peace” Vision Matters Now By Wissam CharafeddineOctober 22, 2025 Thomas J. Barrack Jr. is not a diplomat by training, nor an academic specialist in Middle Eastern affairs. He is a billionaire real-estate investor, founder of Colony Capital, longtime confidant of Donald J. Trump, and one of the architects behind the Trump Administration’s Middle East economic agenda during its first term. In Washington and Riyadh circles he is often described as a bridge-builder between American capital and Gulf monarchies, a man who speaks the language of both high finance and regional power. Continue reading

The Nobel Peace Prize Is An Anachronism And a compromised “honor” as the struggle against the U.S. and its collective west allies intensifies. The peoples of the world know who is fighting for peace, and who, like this year’s winner, Maria Corina Machado, is an imperialist tool. Continue reading

By Laura Wells I believe the group of People Who Want A Better World includes just about everybody I know. And we all have different issues that call to our hearts. Which issue is most important? Continue reading

In recent memory, the prospect of a president preventing congressional elections from taking effect has been unimaginable. But today, it is not at all hard to imagine that this could happen. By Ben Manski Succumbing to fear often leads to mistakes, including inaction, or too little action, too late. Continue reading

Donald Trump has declared war on the “enemy within” and put the military on notice that they will mete out the same treatment domestically that they dispense around the world. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR!” - Donald Trump Continue reading

As has been said, truth is the first casualty of war... By Matthew HohSeptember 23, 2025 Bodyguard of Lies, by award-winning producer Alex Gibney and director Dan Krauss, details the lies by four US presidential administrations that sustained the Afghan War for twenty years. The film is based on the Afghan Papers, the 2019 Washington Post expose that detailed how hundreds of American officials had testified to the Afghan Special Inspector General for Reconstruction that the war was unwinnable, known to be unwinnable, but continued anyway. Continue reading

Photo Credit: http://www.detroits-great-rebellion.com/ Donald Trump’s Takeover Of The Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department Is Not Merely A Result Of His Racist And Authoritarian Tendencies, Nor Is It New. It is part and parcel of a history of militarized policing against Black people and a bipartisan consensus promoting racist crime panics, which are often conducted with the help of the Black misleadership class. Continue reading