Cancel the World Cup Immediately -- Follow the wisdom seen in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz

Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale was the Green Party of New Jersey 2017 gubernatorial candidate  About 1 mile away from Delaney Hall, an internment camp, where we unjustly trap people, and then ship them off like packages, but not before 'labor trafficking them' for $1 a day wages washing, cooking, cleaning their own internment camp--we are ready to play soccer! Continue reading

Remembering Kent State

May 14th, 1970, 56 years ago today at Kent State University in Ohio, 67 rounds of ammunition blasted out in a 13 second interval killing four people, wounding 9 others, and permanently traumatizing millions more. I was 17 years old and I remember this day and the shock that reverberated throughout the USA. Continue reading

A Sobering but Hopeful Take on Mamdani’s Election

By Howie Hawkins I do not share the euphoria of so many progressives and socialists at the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. I came away sobered by it. Many of the left are celebrating Mamdani’s election as signaling a strong move to the left. I don’t see it that way. Mamdani’s vote underperformed other Democratic candidates around the country. I was also underwhelmed by the modest reform program and moderate strategy of Mamdani’s campaign itself.  Continue reading

Matthew Hoh: No Best-Case Scenario

The likely outcomes of war in Venezuela. In a sordid slime harmonious Greed was born in yonder ditch,With a longing in his bosom—and for others’ goods an itch.As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich—Our god is marching on. The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated~ Mark Twain Continue reading

An Inconvenient and Problematic Holiday

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

Arshia Papari : Polarization is not our ailment, it is our clarity

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

Designation of the Israeli Defense Forces IDF as a Terrorist Organization

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

Blueprint or Band-Aid? Why Thomas Barrack’s “Levant Peace” Pitch Misses the Mark

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

Nobel War Prize

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

What is the Most Important Issue?

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