We’re now exposed – often in real-time – to video of abducted mothers torn from their children, workers taken at their jobs, green card holders handcuffed when reporting to ICE appointments, in the USA – and to videos of people in Gaza shot, burned, or bombed, or herded, starving, from blasted place to blasted place by pitiless IDF operations in a not so hidden logic of extermination. More

A coalition of cross-regional states met in Bogotá, Colombia in mid-July to discuss measures to disrupt Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. The subsequent commitments by some of those governments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law is an important development not just to end the genocide, but to counter the relentless miltarism and profiteering of Western states. People power is the strength behind these commitments, and is what will lead to their implementation. More

The Kennedy Assassination in November 1963, the expanding quagmire of Vietnam, Nixon and Agnew’s corruption, Watergate, recession and inflation damaged the American Dream, perhaps irreparably. Good riddance, I thought back then, it was all a charade, a cover for inequality, racism and empire. And today, just when we thought the American Dream was dead and buried, up it rises under another name, MAGA, only more dangerous, reviving traditional hatreds, expanding inequalities, and further concentrating political power in the hands of a handful of oligarchs from tech, finance, oil, aerospace and the media. More