Aren’t we all feeling so much safer knowing about the anonymous “Quiet Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” revealed by the bombshell New York Times op-ed, assuring us “that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his (...)
Human rights group says there was an attempt to hack the phone of one of its Washington-based staff members by a ’hostile government’.
Amnesty International says one of its employees was targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software as part of a deliberate attempt to spy on the human rights (...)
Democratic Party politicians and media outlets that reflect their positions have attacked Trump with arguments to the right of him on certain issues.
One is U.S. policy on North Korea. Trump has been taken to task for meeting with Kim Jong-un, initiating discussions with the Democratic (...)
Review of: Ron Formisano. American Oligarchy: The Permanent Political Class. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Notes. Index. $19.95.
Consumers of left-wing media are well aware that America is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Everyone with a functioning cerebrum, in fact, (...)
Dan La Botz is a member of Solidarity and of the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), as well as a co-editor of New Politics. Trained as a historian of the United States and Mexico, he is also a teacher in the graduate Labor Studies program of the Murphy Institute of the City University of New York. New Politics interviews him here about his new book The New American Populism: Resistance and Alternatives to Trump (Nouveau populisme américain: Résistances et alternatives à Trump).
New Politics: (...)
While the May 14 massacre by Israel sharpshooters was occurring in Gaza, Trump was symbolically opening the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was there, heaping praise on Trump. In addition, there were two pastors present, one making the opening prayer, the other the (...)
A movement of Christians from many church denominations is promoting a pro-poor agenda for the USA. Martin Luther King is a key inspiration. Organisers believe they can unite black and white workers in the ‘bible belt’ of Southern US states where most people are active Christians.
In his prayer (...)
At odds with established Jewish organizations, many younger groups are rejecting the notion of being progressive except for Palestine
The massacre by Israeli soldiers of dozens of Palestinians in Gaza this week has prompted a new round of protests by progressive Jewish-American groups who (...)
Emma Wilde Botta explains what’s at stake with Trump’s latest effort to “break the regime” in Iran—by renouncing the nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor.
DONALD TRUMP’S announcement that the U.S. will withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose economic sanctions will intensify (...)
THREE FACTS STAND out about the April 14 U.S.-British-French missile strike on suspected (probable) Syrian chemical weapons facilities:
1) The action was blatantly illegal under international law, since Syria had not attacked or threatened a any of these three states.
2) It was illegal under (...)
Lance Selfa analyzes the first stages of the trade conflict with China—and explains why the most right-wing administration in decades has the support of liberals on this one.
“TRADE WARS are good, and easy to win,” proclaimed the Tweeter-in-Chief on March 2.
The next few months and years may (...)
On March 24, an estimated 500,000 people, largely youth, demonstrated in Washington D.C. against the continued mass shootings at schools across the country. There were some 800 cities and towns that saw solidarity mobilizations totaling hundreds of thousands more. In New York 150,000 took to (...)
AMONG THOSE MOST alarmed by President Donald Trump’s selection of John Bolton as his new national security adviser on Thursday were supporters of the Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for a partial lifting of economic sanctions. (...)
The lightning-quick corporate response to demands for a boycott against the NRA shows that companies can’t escape politics in an age saturated with social media.
The boycott of the National Rifle Association following its response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, came fast and (...)
The most effective way to counter Donald Trump’s reactionary policies is through mass action. The Democratic Party hopes to steer movements and individuals opposed to Trump into support of its candidates. While this trap of “lesser evil” politics has proved to be a failure over and over again for (...)
We, the members of India Civil Watch (ICW) reject unequivocally the rank opportunism of “Hindus for Trump” (henceforth HFT) that leads them to offer to pay for President Trump’s proposed wall at the Mexican border as long as it will facilitate their own presumed ability to stay in the U.S.
The (...)
Erica Garner, Black Lives Matter activist, and daughter of African American Eric Garner who was brutally murdered by New York City police in 2014, died on December 30. She was 27 years old.
The proximate cause of death was a heart attack, extremely rare in one so young. The underlying cause (...)
Trump’s latest racist rant during a horse trading session with congressional leaders from both parties about the fate of the DACA program, has been widely denounced as an escalation of his racist discourse. Even before his latest comments, Trump demonstrated his contempt for the people of (...)
The president’s incendiary tweets and the Russia scandal distract us from decisions that are reshaping the internet, the environment and democracy.
Now twice as long, his tweets are half as good. The early-morning dispatches from the iPhone of Donald Trump , often sent while he lies in bed, (...)
Hardly a day goes by without much of the mainstream media concentrating on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, including any news about the various investigations into the question, much blowhard opinionating by talking heads, charges that Russia sought to collude with the Trump campaign, (...)
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