By Seth Karer-Dale 10 months ago, as the Biden administration stumbled around, failing to critique or slow Israel's annihilation of Palestinians in response to the horrors of Oct. 7, I wrote that we should fear an attack on these shores. The world was angry at the excessiveness of the response and angry at the U.S. for funding and fueling Netanyahu's excesses. You can only mess with the world population so long before nations or networks come hunting the Oppressor. Continue reading

A Progressive-Leaning Public Elects a Far-Right President Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international policies, elect a plutocratic, racist, America First jingoist as President? From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion polling, I draw three conclusions about this paradox: Continue reading

Orange County State Senator James Skoufis recently ended his campaign for Democratic National Committee Chair. What can be learned from his effort?  In early January, Skoufis posted on X, exhibiting a self-delusion about Green voters common to many Democrats. Referring to the 2024 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race in which the Republican won with 48.82%, followed by the Democrat (48.60%), Libertarian (1.29%), Green (0.95%) and Constitution Party candidate (0.34%), Skoufis wrote “The Green Party spoiled another major race for us just the latest on a very long list.” Continue reading

Wissam Charafeddine discusses the results of the 2024 election in Dearborn, Michigan. Recorded on January 26, 2025. Continue reading

The late Jimmy Carter lived longer than any other U.S. president, passing away at the age of 100 on December 30, 2024. Like all presidents who only serve one term, Carter is generally considered to have been a failure after being defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980. What is less well known is that ample evidence indicates Reagan and his associates planned what is known as the “October Surprise,” which kept U.S. hostages in Iran and sealed Carter’s electoral defeat. Continue reading

The first thing we should do is understand why a majority of the 65% of eligible voters who actually cast ballots elected a far-right authoritarian by a narrow 51% to 48% margin. The American working and middle classes are angry at the economic precarity that the powers that be have given them after five decades of corporate neoliberalism. Trump presented himself as the outsider anti-establishment change candidate, while Harris ran as the moderate establishment candidate. The swing vote was the 10 million or so 2020 Biden voters who Harris lost, not to Trump but to disaffection from the Democratic establishment. Continue reading

On the evening of November 8, 2016, this columnist realized that Hillary Clinton had lost. She hadn’t yet conceded, the polls were still open on the west coast, but she lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Donald Trump. When he turned these formerly democratic states republican, he secured a victory in the electoral college and became the 45th president of the United States. Continue reading

an open letter to Michael Albert By David Baldwin Below is a response from a Green Party activist to an article by author and activist Michael Albert, entitled “Seriously? Stein? Sawant? Suicide?,” which recently appeared on Portside’s website. Mr. Albert’s piece is one of the most comprehensive arguments from a noted left-wing figure for rejecting Dr. Jill Stein’s Green Party candidacy for President in the current election. Continue reading

The National Black Caucus (NBC) of the Green Party (of the United States (GP) as well as the same Green Party support the concept and message that Black Lives Matter, not because only Black lives matter but because all lives matter; we insist that the nation and the systems of our nation that are inherently racist be held accountable and until Black lives matter we cannot truly be a nation where any lives matter.  Continue reading

I can't capture the magnitude of this moment simply through the resonance in my voice. So, I will let the ancestors speak through me and time will be our medium of choice.   From the moments when the drum barely made a sound To when the first people crawled out of the ground.   Continue reading