Category: Thinking Politically

Donald Trump, in all his hubris and idiocy, and in response to Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu, launched an illegal and unconstitutional war on Iran beginning on February 28, 2026.  It was not provoked by Iran, and it clearly was not well planned for by the United States or Israel. Trump, who has suffered from delusions of…

The media cycle has moved on, but the family of Wali ‘Grillz’ Bey is still waiting for answers after his murder by Newark Police.

The sincere belief that the sadistic brutalization of the Palestinian people would sever their connection to their land; that a sixty-year siege on Cuba would compel its people to abandon their revolution; or that assassinating Iran’s revolutionary and spiritual leadership would force the country to surrender its sovereignty to its historic tormentors in the United…

David Fagen’s defection demonstrated the history of Black solidarity with oppressed people.

The doctrine of “preemptive force” has transformed international politics into a dangerous arena where suspicion becomes justification for war. In this searing critique, Mir Adnan Aziz argues that the normalization of preemption—seen in Iraq, Libya and now the widening war in West Asia—has eroded international law and made diplomacy itself a perilous act. When negotiations…

Campbell explains how Cuban military and medical interventions have been decisive in the liberation of African peoples from colonial domination.

The Education of Henry Adams Today Or The Murderous Empire     At a time when the United States of America is revealing itself as an enemy of humanity, remembering those within the American cultural tradition who were critical of the path this country was taking—often foreseeing what was to come—can be of great importance…

The US is funding a genocide. Of course we all know that, but how many of us know about Sudan?

The Trump administration is strangling the island, cutting off fuel, flights, and critical supplies for survival.

If a US role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of US conflicts in the Middle East.