Monday, September 28, 2026

What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?

General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
The Old City of Sana'a, Yemen's capital, which has been under Ansar Allah control since 2014. Photo: Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The urgency of recognizing the Ansar Allah government in Yemen

A near-strike this weekend, reversed at the last minute, is the latest turn in a war that hinges on which Yemeni government Washington recognizes.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking at an event

In NYC Stabbings, Only Some Victims and Narratives Matter

Corporate media are eager to platform those who constantly assert that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel is an attack on all Jews.

What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’

Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world about where to look for innovation, and about how our movement ecology can make space for it.

‘Tired of being unsupported and messed with,’ teachers stage a bold protest that scores...

“Teachers want to have fair ways for us to ensure the public education system continues to provide access to well-supported schools for all kids.”

What Norway’s big divestment decision means for fracking, tar sands and global oil exploration

It appears it’s just cutting its losses on money-losing endeavors like fracking in America, tar sands oil production in Canada, and frontier exploration by U.K. companies in Africa and South-East Asia.

Three Days of Infamy

On Monday, December 8th, 1941 FDR stood before Congress and said "December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy..." and...
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Former Neo-Nazi: President Trump may be complicit in growing threat of white supremacy

"This is not an isolated incident. This is not a fringe problem. This is a transnational terrorist alliance."

To clean up the planet, clean up Washington

Doing so will remove long standing barriers that have slowed and blunted climate action.