Category: Thinking Politically

Article suggests how we can prepare to counter Trump’s efforts to take over various cities and towns.

In homeschool cooperatives, students learn side by side from one another’s parents — an embodiment of the saying “It takes a village to raise a child.” At For the Culture, parent-teachers introduced Cari and her classmates to the genocide in Gaza and other current events during their weekly sessions, then supported those who wanted to…

To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign “occupying power” and the occupied nation under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention. When Israeli forces were ultimately compelled to redeploy from the Gaza Strip in…

Argues that the left needs to develop a plan, and implement it, on flooding Congress people’s offices across the country during this summer’s recess–both Democrats and Republicans–to demand an opening of the Epstein files, an end of aid to Israel, and an end to Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) exports and keeping fossil fuels in the…

Historic elections reveal deep public dissatisfaction with austerity, scandals, and a fading populist agenda. Local and regional elections on April 13 have delivered an historic defeat to Finland’s ruling right-wing populist party The Finns (Perussuomalaiset), which saw its support almost halved compared to the last local elections. The left-green bloc made significant gains across the…

Espionage in ancient India was not a peripheral concern—it was an intrinsic part of governance, war strategy, and moral-political philosophy. From the mythical tales of Hanuman in the Ramayana to the intricate doctrines of Kautilya in the Arthashastra, the Indian subcontinent cultivated a rich tradition of state intelligence that was both pragmatic and deeply embedded…

The Black Alliance for Peace demands an end to U.S. and Western interference in Burkina Faso, the rejection of neocolonial policies in the Sahel, and a stance affirming Africans’ rights to sovereignty.

Somalia’s recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as its sixth Federal Member State (FMS) has radically shifted the Horn of Africa’s geopolitical dynamics, with implications for Israel, Palestine, and Ansar Allah (“the Houthis”).

The stagnation driven by Donald Trump’s tariff policies, intended to save the dollar from collapse—the US debt and trade imbalance is measured in trillions—is global in nature, but will fall hardest on countries euphemistically referred to as developing or emerging. In this scenario, deeply in debt and isolated from the world by the atrocities spoken…

For 76 years, Gaza has been has been the defiant heart of Palestinian resistance. Today, as Israel’s genocidal war lays bare the brutal dead end of Zionism, Gaza’s struggle transcends geography, bringing a global reckoning with colonialism, oppression, and the cost of silence.